After the first global reduction of life expectancy since World War II, a path towards "longer and healthier lives" https://
nytimes.com/2023/03/16/opi
nion/pandemic-recovery-primary-care.html
… by @Atul_Gawande
@erictopol
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Life Expectancy Recovery Path Through Primary Care Innovation
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AI Research Reveals Rising Colon Cancer Cases Young Adults
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Why are so many young people getting colon cancer? https://
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc
ience.ade7114
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ESM-2: Meta’s Large Language Model Advances Protein Structure Prediction
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One of the most important advances for #AI in life science has been #AlphaFold. The prediction of proteins from amino acid sequences at atomic level has a new large language model, ESM-2, from @Meta https://
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc
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LLM Achieves 85.4% on US Medical Licensing Exam
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Not everyday a large language model scores 85.4% on the US medical licensing exam (USMLE)
Implications https://
erictopol.substack.com/p/multimodal-a
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Academic Freedom and COVID-19 Pandemic Impact Discussion
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An important conversation with
@HeartBobH
about faculty, freedom of speech, the role of academic Iinstitutions and the Covid pandemic. With @cuttingforstone +transcript
@Medscape
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Missing supplementary materials in AI research publication critique
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Agree, Ryan. A lot missing but no link provided to supplementary material that I could find. Hope the authors can provide @epi_elks @amsterdamumc
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Large Language Models Generate Cumulative Ambiguities Not Certainties
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Humans have to generate a lot of words to try and explain the potential & challenges of large language #AI models https://
wsj.com/articles/chatg
pt-heralds-an-intellectual-revolution-enlightenment-artificial-intelligence-homo-technicus-technology-cognition-morality-philosophy-774331c6?mod=opinion_lead_pos5
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Life as Experience: AI Healthcare Perspectives
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"Life is not a problem to be solved; it's an experience to be had." And here's our recent conversation @Medscape https://
medscape.com/viewarticle/98
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Gut Microbiome Enzymes Predict IBD Treatment Response
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For people with inflammatory bowel disease, why is there such a variable response the standard treatment of 5-amino salicylic acid?
A new mulitomic study
4 commonly present enzymes produced by gut microbiome predict response https://
nature.com/articles/s4159
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nature.com/articles/s4159
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Microfluidic Skin Sensors Enable Sweat Biomedical Analysis
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Our sweat is a richly informative biomedical resource https://
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc
ience.abq5916
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New microfluidic skin sensors will make this information increasingly accessible @Sciencemagazine @NU_QSIB @NorthwesternEng @NorthwesternU @roozyg