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Google Pulls Some AI Health Overviews After Investigation Finds Misleading Advice

Health groups warn partial fixes leave users exposed to misleading medical guidance.

Overview

  • The Guardian found AI Overviews listed generic liver test “normal ranges” without key context on age, sex, ethnicity or nationality and highlighted harmful pancreatic cancer diet advice.
  • Google removed AI Overviews for queries such as “what is the normal range for liver blood tests” and “what is the normal range for liver function tests.”
  • Follow-up checks confirmed those specific searches no longer show Overviews, though rephrased queries can still surface AI summaries in some cases.
  • Google Search continues to offer an AI Mode option that returns AI-generated health answers even where Overviews were disabled.
  • Google declined to discuss individual removals, said it is making broad improvements, and cited an internal clinician review that found many responses aligned with high-quality sources.