PRIMARY-AI: outcomes-based standards to safeguard primary care in the AI era
School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Dian Zeng, Zehua Jiang, Yiming Qin & Tien…
High adherence and safety found in short TB treatments
A study comparing one- and three-month antibiotic treatments to prevent active tuberculosis (TB) finds that a high percentage…
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…
8 Nations Lose Measles Elimination Status, US Likely Next
The United Kingdom and five other countries in Europe and Central Asia recently lost their measles elimination status,…
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 …
Potential Pandemics: Canine Coronavirus, Influenza D
Researchers warn that canine coronavirus, which has been linked to human respiratory illness in Southeast Asia, and influenza…
42% of Adults 50+ Skipped Flu and COVID-19 Vaccinations
Vaccination against influenza and COVID-19 currently lags among people 50 and older, according to a national survey. Forty-two…
Scientists offer new insight into how common parasite T. gondii causes disease
A University of California, Riverside team of scientists has found that Toxoplasma gondii, a common parasite affecting up to…
Why humans can’t make vitamin C in our bodies
Millions of years ago, our ancestors lost the ability to make vitamin C. It’s long been unclear why,…
Study traces deep origins of syphilis to prehistoric Americas
A newly sequenced genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum, highlights the deep antiquity of treponemal diseases in…
Weill Cornell Medicine receives ARPA-H award to advance lymphatic disease diagnosis
Weill Cornell Medicine has received a $5.2 million, initial two-year award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for…
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…