The latest issue of Global Health & Medicine (GHM) is available online: Special Topic Issue on "AI in Medicine" (Vol. 8, No. 3, June 2026)

The latest issue of Global Health & Medicine (GHM) (Vol. 8, No. 3, June 2026) has been officially published online. Articles published in GHM are indexed in PubMed and the Web of Science Core Collection.

This issue features the special topic “Artificial Intelligence in Medicine,” presenting the latest scholarly articles on AI applications in clinical practice, healthcare, ethics, and regulatory science.

GHM Vol. 8, No. 3, June 2026
Current Issue:https://www.globalhealthmedicine.com/?issues=2026%2C3
Whole Issue (PDF):https://www.globalhealthmedicine.com/site/archives.html
PubMed:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=%22Glob+Health+Med%22%5Bjour%5D&sort=date

This issue presents selected articles by researchers from around the world, spanning diverse scientific fields. The article titles (with the countries of the authors’ affiliations) are as follows:

• Japanese regulation and approval process for medical artificial intelligence (AI) as software as a medical device (SaMD): Current status and emerging challenges (Japan)
• Proactive adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the operations of Japan's Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA): Current initiatives, governance, and future perspectives (Japan)
• Beyond consent: Reconstructing ethical justification in medical adaptive machine learning systems (Japan)
• Human-in-the-loop reconsidered: Shadow use and reliance management in drug development (Japan)
• Clinical artificial intelligence (AI) in Japan: Regulatory pathways, domain-specific evidence, and its data infrastructure from an international perspective (Japan)
• Artificial intelligence (AI)-aided clinical data management: Applications, human-in-the-loop workflows, and regulatory considerations (Japan)
• Artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted diagnosis of skin diseases: From image classification to dermatology-specific multimodal clinical reasoning (China)
• Automated radiographic shoulder balance assessment in scoliosis via deep learning (China)
• From companion technologies to social care infrastructure: A multi-level perspective on loneliness-related support in dementia care in an era of AI (Japan)
• Artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted full-course case management for primary liver cancer: System design, preliminary implementation, and practical considerations (China)
• Artificial intelligence (AI)-based pose estimation detects movements linked to unplanned tube removal in ICU patients (Japan)

GHM is an international, open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by the Japan Institute for Health Security (JIHS). Issued bimonthly in both print and electronic formats (Print ISSN: 2434-9186; Online ISSN: 2434-9194), the journal launched its inaugural issue in October 2019. Articles published in GHM span the fields of global health, public health, and health care delivery, and include seminal and cutting-edge research at the intersection of biomedical science and clinical practice. Articles published in GHM are indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, PubMed/PMC, and Scopus.

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