Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study
The study employed a between-subjects design with three treatment groups and a control. Before the treatment phase, participants…
Griffith researchers on the cusp of new vaccine to prevent chikungunya
Griffith University researchers are on the cusp of a new vaccine to prevent chikungunya, a global health threat…
Scaling medical AI across clinical contexts
Jiang, L. Y. et al. Health system-scale language models are all-purpose prediction engines. Nature 619, 357–362 (2023). Article …
China’s financial powerhouse Shanghai aims for 5% growth, ‘global influence’
China’s economic locomotive Shanghai is aiming for a growth rate of around 5 per cent this year, after…
Zebrafish can play a decisive role in clinical interpretation of spinal muscular atrophy
The tiny zebrafish is helping researchers rapidly determine whether a newborn’s genetic mutation is likely to cause spinal…
Study reveals immune traffic controller hijacked by common virus
In a major scientific breakthrough, researchers from Monash University and the Lions Eye Institute have discovered a tissue…
An LLM chatbot to facilitate primary-to-specialist care transitions: a randomized controlled trial
Ethics approval The Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College and the local medical ethics…
Holistic evaluation of large language models for medical tasks with MedHELM
Papers with Code. Question answering on MedQA (USMLE). https://paperswithcode.com/sota/question-answering-on-medqa-usmle (2024). Khosravi, M., Zare, Z., Mojtabaeian, S. M. &…
Researchers discover how Mycoplasma pneumoniae acquires cholesterol from human hosts
A multidisciplinary team has uncovered a key mechanism that allows the human bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae-responsible for atypical pneumonia…
Experiencing acute genomic care: perspectives from parents in the neonatal and paediatric intensive care units towards rapid genomic sequencing
Kingsmore SF, Nofsinger R, Ellsworth K. Rapid genomic sequencing for genetic disease diagnosis and therapy in intensive care…
The expanding landscape of GLP-1 medicines
Drucker, D. J., Philippe, J., Mojsov, S., Chick, W. L. & Habener, J. F. Glucagon-like peptide I stimulates…
China’s next decade to cement status as hi-tech manufacturing powerhouse: reports
China is expected to solidify its position as a hi-tech manufacturing powerhouse over the next decade as it…