The 7 next big things in health and medicine for 2026

As these honorees show, the future of medicine is looking more and more . They include AI that diagnoses more than a dozen serious conditions from a single abdominal scan, a sci-fi-worthy clinic that reimagines the preventive care model, and a psychedelic that tackles treatment-resistant depression with a synthetic version of a Sonoran Desert toad secretion. Need help with paying rising out-of-pocket medical costs?