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Examples of HopeBot interface and representative outputs. Guo et al. 2026

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Research Articles

A global analysis of national cardiovascular disease control plans using a multi-agent artificial intelligence model

Hugh Pearson, Caleb J. Kumar, Che L. Reddy, Estella Rose LeBlanc, Rifat Atun, With the CVD Control Collaborative

PLOS Digital Health: published June 1, 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0001447

Assessing movement quality in individuals with Duchenne muscular dystrophy utilizing accelerometry: Comparisons with healthy controls

Nicholas Joy, Thomas J. Donnelly, Jonathan Soslow, William Bryan Burnette, Christopher Spurney, Nazia Husain, Katheryn Gambetta, Brian D. Soriano, Frank J. Raucci Jr, Kan Hor, Larry W. Markham, Kimberly Crum, Catherine E. Lang, Allison E. Miller, Jaclyn Tamaroff, For the DMDCCC Investigators

PLOS Digital Health: published June 2, 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0001315

Healthcare professionals show high AI enthusiasm but limited knowledge: A cross-sectional study

Nada Abedin, Peter Hahn, Stefan Zeuzem, Georg Dultz

PLOS Digital Health: published June 5, 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0001433

Can consumer wearables support outpatient health monitoring for patients with post-acute infection syndromes? A systematic umbrella review of accuracy, validity, and clinical utility data

Deanna M. Kaplan, Nicole Kessler, Nicole S. Pozzo, Caroline Y. Doyle, Page Dickey, Nicholas A. Giordano, Asmita Lehther, Saad Maan, Jennifer S. Mascaro, Ariel McDowall, Shenita Peterson, Himani Sirsi, Roman Palitsky

PLOS Digital Health: published June 8, 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0001124

Who gets included? Equity in digital and decentralised mental health and neurodevelopmental trials: A systematic review

Sophie S. Hall, Charlotte L. Hall, Christopher Partlett, Alexia Jeayes, Nikita Rattu, Helen Henshaw, Jennifer Martin, Emily Shoesmith

PLOS Digital Health: published June 8, 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0001466

A digital twin approach for simultaneous reconstruction of brain anatomy and dynamics from neural data

Michelangelo Fabbrizzi, Lorenzo Gaetano Amato, Leonardo Martinelli, Jacopo Carpaneto, Emanuele Bartolini, Sara Calderoni, Alessandra Retico, Alberto Arturo Vergani, Alberto Mazzoni

PLOS Digital Health: published June 11, 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0001445

Augmenting large language models with clinical knowledge graph for personalized perioperative fluid therapy question answering

Jie Song, Jinhua Feng, Yuxin Zhang, Cheng Bi, Xin Zheng, Zhichuan Xu, Jiale Du, Mengqiao He, Meng Xiao, Xiaoran Li, Qiongfang Cao, Chi Zhang, Hao Yang, Rongrong Wu, Bairong Shen

PLOS Digital Health: published June 11, 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0001474

Discriminating HFrEF vs HFpEF from chest radiographs: Mitigating demographic performance gaps via augmentation and multimodal fusion

Han-Jay Shu, Chao-Ju Chen, Liam G. McCoy, Ryan Wang, Po-Chih Kuo, Leo Anthony Celi

PLOS Digital Health: published June 12, 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0001467

Digital measurement of ocular microtremor in Parkinson’s Disease: Analytical and clinical validation

Lisa Graham, Rodrigo Vitorio, Patrick Tait, Richard Walker, Alan Godfrey, Rosie Morris, Samuel Stuart

PLOS Digital Health: published June 18, 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0001439

Sunscreen is overwhelmingly promoted on TikTok, but content with misinformation exhibits proportionally high levels of audience interaction

Alessandro Marcon, Marco Zenone, Vincenza Boniface, Cheryl E. Peters, Timothy Caufield

PLOS Digital Health: published June 18, 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0001440

Large language models perpetuate bias in palliative care: Development and analysis of the Palliative Care Adversarial Dataset (PCAD)

Naomi Akhras, Fares Antaki, Fannie Mottet, Olivia Nguyen, Shyam Sawhney, Sabrina Bajwah, Joanna M. Davies

PLOS Digital Health: published June 18, 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0001451

Effects of a digital psychosocial intervention on somatic complaints, sleep latency problems, and body size perceptions in youth after parental separation: A randomized controlled trial

Andreas Nielsen Hald, Daniel Bach Johnsen, Gert Martin Hald, Camilla Stine Øverup

PLOS Digital Health: published June 18, 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0001460

Digital innovations and health information systems: Lessons learned from implementing ALMANACH in Nigeria

Andrea Bernasconi, Daniel Ishaya, Ibrahim Sahabo, Muazu Muazu, Marianne van der Sande

PLOS Digital Health: published June 22, 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0001362

Design of an artificial intelligence model to screen spontaneous speech to detect Alzheimer’s Disease

Kenneth M. Madden, Boris Feldman, Daniel Jimenez, Mandeep Khokhar, Qihan Li, Minh Nguyen, Jian Zhu

PLOS Digital Health: published June 25, 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0001444

Feasibility and user evaluation of HopeBot: An LLM-powered conversational chatbot for depression screening

Zhijun Guo, Alvina Lai, Julia Ive, Alexandru Petcu, Yutong Wang, Luyuan Qi, Johan H. Thygesen, Kezhi Li

PLOS Digital Health: published June 25, 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0001446

Evaluating the use of drones within medical logistics: A patient-focused qualitative evaluation

Colin B. Shore, Ashley Shepherd, Frances Hines, Hazel Dempsey, Karen Bell, Dylan Powell

PLOS Digital Health: published June 25, 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0001459

Exploring digital health user engagement: General app usage patterns from a clinical trial with the mLab App

Thomas F. Scherr, Austin Hardcastle, Carson P. Moore, Dheemanth Majji, Lisa M. Kuhns, Robert Garofalo, Rebecca Schnall

PLOS Digital Health: published June 25, 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0001452

A scoping review of barriers and facilitators to implementing tele-mental health solutions for rural, remote and underserved populations in low- and middle-income countries

Sandra Jumbe, Aysha Groen, Lisa Ballard, Alexander Torbuck, Deniz Naghibi, Sophie Leijdesdorff, Jose G. Perez-Ramos, David Lim, Virender Sorout, Dingaane Msowoya, Winnie W. S. Mak, Rodrigo Ramalho, Bessie Malila

PLOS Digital Health: published June 25, 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000903

A single-camera video-based assessment of locomotive syndrome using pose-silhouette fusion model

Yu Moriguchi, Junichi Kushioka, Noriko Takemura, Hiroki Hagizawa, Masafumi Kashii, Ichiro Nakahara, Taichi Kimura, Keisuke Akiyama, Taku Fujimoto, Hajime Nagahara, Keiko Yamada, Rodrigo Navarro-Ramirez, Takenori Oda, Hideki Mochizuki, Ken Nakata, Seiji Okada, Satoru Tada

PLOS Digital Health: published June 26, 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0001530

The organization of virtual care centers: A qualitative study in Dutch hospitals

Mirte A. M. Huynen, Vincent J.T. Peters, Martinus A. van Geffen

PLOS Digital Health: published June 26, 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0001479

A qualitative exploration of the low-resource tele-assisted home exercise program for balance and functional mobility in Parkinson’s disease (TELEPORT-PD)

Arnold Fredrick D’Souza, Tumkur Shivakumar Shwetha, Dushyanth Babu Jasti, Manikandan Natarajan

PLOS Digital Health: published June 30, 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0001536

Review

Clinical artificial intelligence applications of vision-language foundation models

Arun James Thirunavukarasu, Siyou Li, Pengyao Qin, Dong Nie, Rohan Sanghera, Ernest Lim, Juntao Yu, Le Zhang

PLOS Digital Health: published June 11, 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0001453

Corrections

Correction: HaptiKart: An engaging videogame reveals elevated proprioceptive bias in individuals with autism spectrum disorder

Daniel E. Lidstone, Mohit Singhala, Liam J. Wang, Jeremy D. Brown, Stewart H. Mostofsky

PLOS Digital Health: published June 1, 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0001482

Correction: Uptrend in esotropia incidence in the era of excessive smartphone use: A nationwide population-based cohort study in Japan, 2014–2019

Saori Wada, Manabu Miyata, Masahiro Miyake, Ai Kido, Takuro Kamei, Hiroaki Ueshima, Shinya Nakao, Akinari Yamamoto, Kenji Suda, Eri Nakano, Hiroshi Tamura, Akitaka Tsujikawa

PLOS Digital Health: published June 25, 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0001532

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