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New Ebola outbreak in Congo linked to recent animal spillover, genome data suggests
A recent Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo was caused by a new spillover event from an animal reservoir, rather than a recurrence of a previous strain. Genome sequencing from 22 specimens, published in Nature Medicine, in…
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Medical trainees risk never developing clinical judgment due to AI reliance
There is growing concern that medical professionals are becoming less clinically adept due to their increasing reliance on AI tools. This issue is particularly acute for trainees, such as medical students and residents,…
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Insilico Medicine uses AI to accelerate drug discovery, licensing platform to top pharma
Insilico Medicine is leveraging generative AI to significantly accelerate and reduce the cost of drug discovery. The company has successfully used its AI platform to design a drug candidate that advanced to phase 2 clin…
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MIT study: AI explanations impact health diagnosis differently by user expertise
A study led by MIT researchers has revealed that AI explainability tools in healthcare can yield significantly different outcomes based on user expertise. For non-experts diagnosing skin diseases, AI assistance improved…
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Eli Lilly's Obesity Drugs Fuel 48% Revenue Growth, Retatrutide Trials Show Promise
Eli Lilly and Company reported a significant increase in its second-quarter revenue, reaching $23 billion, a 48% year-over-year growth. This surge was primarily driven by its GLP-1 drugs, Mounjaro and Zepbound, which ge…
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AI's healthcare comprehension gap revealed in patient study
A recent study published in Nature Medicine highlights a critical gap in the effectiveness of AI in healthcare: while large language models can accurately identify medical conditions, they fail to effectively transfer t…
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Brain implant restores movement and touch for paralyzed man
A groundbreaking neural bypass technology has enabled Keith Thomas, paralyzed from the chest down, to regain significant use of his arms and hands. The system, developed by researchers at the Feinstein Institutes for Me…
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Brain implant restores feeling and movement for paralyzed man
Neurologists at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research have successfully implemented a "double neural bypass" procedure, enabling a patient with quadriplegia to regain significant motor control and sensation in h…
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University of Michigan unveils NeuroVFM for neuroimaging analysis
Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed NeuroVFM, a novel foundation model for neuroimaging. Trained using the Vol-JEPA approach on over 5.24 million clinical MRI and CT scans, NeuroVFM learns from uncu…
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General LLMs outperform specialized AI in medical knowledge, study finds
A recent study published in Nature Medicine found that general-purpose large language models like Gemini 3.1 Pro, GPT-5.2, and Claude Opus 4.6 outperformed specialized physician-facing AI tools in medical knowledge ques…
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Large frontier AI models not ready for prime time in health applications, study finds
A recent Nature Medicine article highlights significant gaps in the readiness of large frontier AI models for healthcare applications. Despite strong benchmark performances, these models lack the robust evidence needed …
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New DBS system improves Parkinson's gait, published in Nature Medicine
A new deep brain stimulation system developed by the University of California, San Francisco, has shown promise in improving gait for Parkinson's disease patients. This system can detect neural signals related to each s…
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LLMs for Medical Q&A: New Reasoning Prompts and Knowledge-Graph Grounding Explored
Researchers are exploring methods to improve Large Language Models (LLMs) for open-ended medical question answering. One approach involves a Chain of Thought (CoT) reasoning prompt called CLINICR, which aims to mimic cl…
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ALS patient becomes first 'power user' of speech-enabling brain implant
Casey Harrell, a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), has become the first "power user" of a brain-computer interface (BCI) designed to restore speech. After nearly three years and over 3,800 hours of use, …
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Medical AI's real-world value questioned amid workflow challenges
An editorial in Nature Medicine questions the real-world value of medical AI, highlighting that strong retrospective validation does not guarantee improved patient care. The authors emphasize that AI systems can falter …
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LLMs show little evidence of improving patient health outcomes, experts say
Despite optimism about AI in medicine, current large language models have shown little evidence of improving patient or doctor health outcomes. While these tools may assist with administrative tasks, their unsupervised …
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Healthcare AI tools are widely adopted but their impact on patient outcomes remains unknown.
A new paper in Nature Medicine highlights a critical gap in the deployment of AI in healthcare: while many AI tools demonstrate accuracy, their actual impact on patient health outcomes remains largely unknown. Researche…
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LLMs Hallucinate in Academic and Medical Contexts, Studies Show
A new study published on arXiv investigated the hallucination tendencies of four popular LLMs—ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, and Copilot—when used for academic writing. The research introduced a "Hallucination Index" (HI) and f…