2 support pieces https://
thelancet.com/journals/lance
t/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00659-8/abstract
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nature.com/articles/s4159
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Research advances in healthcare and medical science applications
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Medical imaging AI proves effective but LLMs lack real world evidence
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Superhuman interpretation AI for medical images, such as mammography and endoscopy, has been proven to improve diagnostic accuracy in multiple randomized trials but mostly not implemented. But LLMs for clinical decision support have little real world medicine proof, but are
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CDC Crisis: Editorial in The Lancet Examines Public Health Agency
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The CDC is on the Brink, the editorial in this week's @TheLancet https://
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CGM AI Superior to Self-Monitoring for Type 2 Diabetes Control
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A randomized trial of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) vs self-monitoring for Type 2 diabetes on basal insulin and drug therapies shows superiority of CGM for gluocse regulation https://
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Sarcomere Enhancers Show Promise for HFpEF Obesity Treatment
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In people with HFpEF (heart failure with preserved ejection fraction) and severe obesity, there is a heart muscle cell defect with sarcomere hyper-phosphorylation. Besides weight loss, sarcomere enhancers (not yet studied) may help. @ScienceMagazine https://
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc
ience.adz7118
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Fraudulent Author Names Discovered in Academic Paper
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all the author names were fraudulent; they had nothing to do with the paper
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AI Discovery of MRSA-Effective Pill Could Transform Treatment
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If AI can find a pill effective vs MRSA that would be big.
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US Biomedical Research Funding Under Political Pressure
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How to stymie biomedical research in the United States
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nytimes.com/2026/04/22/sci
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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Clinicians and HealthBench Professional
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Today @OpenAI introduced ChatGPT for Clinicians, provided free for credentialed HCPs, and HealthBench Professional for benchmarking LLM medical task performance (Figure) https://
openai.com/index/making-c
hatgpt-better-for-clinicians/
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Rewarding LLM Uncertainty Reduces Hallucinations
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New @Nature To reduce LLM hallucinations they should be rewarded for admitting uncertainty