Google announces health-related AI summaries in Search

Google has announced health-related AI summaries in search so people can compare their health conditions with others experiences. Called ‘What People Suggest,’ it will put together comments from other patients with similar symptoms. 

For example, someone with arthritis could search for exercises to alleviate the pain. 

The feature will be available on mobile devices in the U.S. , per a company blog post.

The search giant has also expanded its knowledge panels that were for common health topics to cover thousands of health-related issues using AI. The information boxes or panels will now appear in more countries and languages including Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese for mobile users. 

The company also announced TxGemma, a collection of Gemma-based open models that can improve AI-powered drug discovery by analysing structures of chemicals, proteins and molecules and helping researchers predict properties for potential new therapies.

​In February, the FDA approved Google’s ‘Loss of Pulse Detection’ feature deployed in Pixel Watch 3. The feature detect a loss of pulse and automatically calls emergency service. 

The search giant also launched an AI co-scientist, which is built on Gemini 2.0 to help biomedical researchers write novel hypotheses and plans.