Legionnaires’ Cluster Kills Five in New York City
NYC health officials confirm 84 cases and five deaths linked to a legionnaires’ disease cluster in the Carnegie…
Court rejects class action suit against Montreal-area private schools | City News
Quebec Superior Court judge Janick Perreault recently rejected a class action suit launched by parents Stéphanie Bernard and Pierre…
Genomas Brasil program: building precision public health within Brazil’s Unified Health System
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Last Polio Patient Using Iron Lung Passes Away in Oklahoma
The last surviving polio patient using an iron lung has passed away in Oklahoma, according to the Associated…
Health system learning enables generalist neuroimaging models
Health system learning We define ‘health system learning’ as learning directly from uncurated data generated during routine clinical…
Michigan cyclosporiasis cases near 1,000; state launches webpage | Health
Michigan’s state health department introduced a webpage with information about the ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak as the total…
How this deadly superbug spread and rose to global dominance | Health
CDC By Talker By Stephen Beech Hospital samples from the 1970s helped reveal how a deadly antibiotic-resistant “superbug”…
Armed Conflict Drives Measles Outbreaks
A study of 193 countries reveals that armed conflict and displacement drive measles outbreaks by damaging healthcare infrastructure…
Generative AI-enabled clinical decision support system in primary care: a pragmatic, cluster-randomized trial
Design We conducted a pragmatic, multicenter, parallel-group cluster-randomized controlled trial across a network of 16 primary care facilities…
Evaluating the robustness and readiness of large frontier models in health AI applications
Singhal, K. et al. Large language models encode clinical knowledge. Nature 620, 172–180 (2023). Article CAS PubMed PubMed…
Biologists Want NASA to Build a Quarantine Lab for Alien Germs on the Moon
International concerns over Earth possibly contaminating distant worlds with microbes—or our spacecraft potentially bringing a deadly alien pathogen…
Plague emerged earlier than thought and hit hunter-gatherers hard
Ancient genomes from Siberian graves reveal that plague was already lethal in small hunter-gatherer communities, reshaping ideas about…