Men's use of chatbots for therapy, and earnings season highlights

STAT News, in the November 10, 2026 edition of its Health Tech newsletter, covers two items from the digital health sector. The first concerns a growing trend of men using chatbots for therapy-like interactions, described as part of a broader pattern of men who have historically avoided conventional mental health treatment. The newsletter frames this as an area of optimism within the industry, though the available material does not specify particular products, companies, or clinical data behind that characterization.

The second item surveys highlights from the current earnings season as it pertains to health technology companies. The source material provided does not include specific figures, named companies, or quoted executives from these earnings reports.

No direct quotations from named sources accompany either item in the material available for this account. The report functions as a roundup notice within STAT’s regular newsletter format rather than as an investigative piece with original reporting detail.

The underlying question raised by the chatbot item, per STAT’s framing, concerns what increasing acceptance of artificial conversational tools among men who avoid traditional therapy may indicate about shifting patterns of mental health care-seeking. The newsletter does not elaborate further on methodology, sample size, or outcomes data in the material reviewed here.

Published by STAT News, the bulletin is presented as a subscriber-oriented summary spanning two distinct health tech topics rather than a single focused investigation.