Woman Loses Her Limbs After Innocent Dog Lick
One of the most innocent things in the world—a dog’s lick—may have had incredibly tragic consequences for 56-year-old…
Stomach bug ripping through Long Island households, classrooms
A stomach virus ripping through Long Island households and classrooms is hitting patients with symptoms that include nausea, stomach cramping,…
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…
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 …
A Mysterious Bat Virus in Bangladesh Is Deadlier Than We Thought, and Now Infecting Humans
Between late 2022 and early 2023, five patients arrived at hospitals in Bangladesh with symptoms that screamed “Nipah…
Fecal microbiota transplantation plus immunotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer and melanoma: the phase 2 FMT-LUMINate trial
Study participants and clinical trial design The FMT-LUMINate trial (NCT04951583) is a multicenter, open-label, phase 2 trial that…
Effector–host interactome map links type III secretion systems in healthy gut microbiomes to immune modulation
Identification of T3SS+ strains and candidate effectors in culture collections and MAGs Reference genomes for Pseudomonadota strains isolated…
Lost measles elimination status ‘a cost of doing business,’ CDC official says
With measles transmission in the United States at levels that haven’t been seen in decades, the principal deputy…
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. &…
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…
Placebo effect influences vaccine responses – Nature
Placebo effect influences vaccine responses NatureUpregulation of reward mesolimbic activity and immune response to vaccination: a randomized controlled trial NatureBrain…
Approaches for accelerating microbial gene function discovery using artificial intelligence
Hutchison, C. A. I. et al. Design and synthesis of a minimal bacterial genome. Science 351, aad6253 (2016).…