The ongoing global public health crisis has accelerated the rise of telemedicine, and spending more time at home has made the more fitness-minded among us strive to find ways to work out together—even when physically apart. Mental health care access is being expanded through artificial intelligence, and AIs of a different sort are being used to discover new drugs and model the outcomes of folks near the end of their lives. Companies building treatments around drugs that not so long ago could have landed users in jail are now raising millions of dollars and going public. 

There’s a lot going on in the health and wellness sector, and this past July saw no signs of a summer slowdown. This review wraps up some of the biggest trends and events in health and wellness in July.