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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 25/03/2026
The newest gene editors are shifting away from tackling mutations one by one and toward universal therapies that will hopefully create cheaper and more broadly applicable medicines www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/e90t1
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Genome editing’s third act - Nature Biotechnology
The newest gene editors are shifting away from tackling mutations one by one and toward universal therapies that will hopefully create cheaper and more broadly applicable medicines.
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Alicia King (she/her) @aliciajeanking.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
To what extent does the reporting of #user input in publications suggest their input is meaningfully shaping the development of #digital #sexualhealth tools? Our team of international experts answer this question in our #openacces scoping review: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1/
Photographs of a laptop and the hands of someone using a smartphone beside the research question: To what extent does the reporting of user input in publications suggest their input is meaningfully shaping the development of digital sexual health tools?
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Alicia King (she/her) @aliciajeanking.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Our suggested guidance for #developers of #digitalsexualhealth tools... Thanks to my coauthors Ethan Cardwell (Uni of Melb.), @katha.bsky.social, Paul Flowers of @unistrathclyde.bsky.social, Mark Gilbert of @ubcpublichealth.bsky.social & @ericpfchow.bsky.social. @digital-health.bsky.social 3/3
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Suggested guidance for #developers of #digitalsexualhealth tools:
1. Involve end users early
2. Engage your target population, including ‘extreme users’
3. Create opportunities for unexpected input
4. Involve users more than once
5. Close the feedback loop
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Alicia King (she/her) @aliciajeanking.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
What did potential users of an #AI application to identify observable changes in their genital or anal area? Read more in our #openaccess article in #digitalhealth: doi.org/10.1177/2055... In brief, participants described a potential pathway to better #sexualhealth promoted by the AiSTi tool… 1/
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Exciting progress in Parkinson's research! Early clinical trials of stem-cell therapy show promise in being safe for transplanting dopamine-releasing neurons. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #ClinicalTrial #ParkinsonsDisease #StemCellTherapy #MedicalResearch
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Clinical trials test the safety of stem-cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease
Transplanting dopamine-releasing neurons into the brain is a promising regenerative therapy for Parkinson’s disease. Two clinical trials show that it is safe, but more evidence is needed to prove its ...
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
One of the best decisions I made in my academic career: create a dedicated teaching website: ~20 years of course materials, handouts, tip sheets, videos & more! FREE to use for teaching with credit! www.teachepi.org
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Higher heart rate and inactivity: Smartwatch data show early signs of long COVID www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/hig... #DigitalHealth #LongCovid #SmartWatch #Wearable #HealthData
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Higher heart rate and inactivity: Smartwatch data show early signs of long COVID
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Compléments alimentaires: l’Anses met en garde contre les effets indésirables et potentiellement dangereux Les compléments alimentaires, nécessité d'une consommation éclairée www.anses.fr/fr/content/l... #ANSES #France
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Les compléments alimentaires, nécessité d'une consommation éclairée
Les compléments alimentaires, concentrés de nutriments, de plantes ou d’autres substances, sont de plus en plus consommés en France. A visée amincissante, anti-stress, revitalisante ou destinés aux sp...
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
"The vast quantities of data that are produced in health care every day – from doctors’ notes to radiology images – are a nearly untapped resource for innovation and economic growth." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... #DigitalHealth #HealthData #Interoperability #AI #ClinicalTrial #Canada
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Opinion: Without integrating our health data, Canada risks being left behind
By engaging in public-private partnerships, other countries are pulling ahead in having faster and better access to cutting-edge treatments
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
"This guideline highlights the close tradeoff between desirable and undesirable effects and the limitations in the current evidence to support a recommendation" www.gastrojournal.org/article/S001... #AI #Colonoscopy #ComputerAidedDetection #CADe #Colorectal #Cancer
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AGA Living Clinical Practice Guideline on Computer-Aided Detection–Assisted Colonoscopy
This American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) guideline is intended to provide an overview of the evidence and support endoscopists and patients on the use of computer-aided detection (CADe) sys...
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Unsupervised deep learning of electrocardiograms enables scalable human disease profiling www.nature.com/articles/s41... #DigitalHealth #ECG #AI #DeepLearning #MedSky
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Unsupervised deep learning of electrocardiograms enables scalable human disease profiling - npj Digital Medicine
npj Digital Medicine - Unsupervised deep learning of electrocardiograms enables scalable human disease profiling
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
"By extracting deeper insights from familiar technologies like #ECGs, chest X-rays, oximeters, and stethoscopes, #AI is turning them into dynamic platforms for #diagnosis, #prediction, and #prevention" www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-... #DigitalHealth #ECG
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Unlocking the Hidden Potential of Clinical Tools With AI
AI reveals hidden patterns in ECGs that human experts can't see, transforming a century-old clinical tool into a powerful predictive system.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
New and encouraging results for a combined flu and Covid mRNA vaccine randomized clinical trial in >1,200 healthy adults age 18-79 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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mRNA-based seasonal influenza and SARS-CoV-2 multicomponent vaccine in healthy adults: a phase 1/2 trial - Nature Medicine
An interim analysis shows that a new mRNA influenza and SAR-CoV-2 combination vaccine is safe and triggers an encouraging immune response.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
A nonsensical threat to: One of the most important advances in biotechnology of our time, already being used to successfully treat refractory cancers, enable genome editing, develop vaccines for infectious diseases for which there are none, treat autoimmune diseases, and more.
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
In Trump's America, epidemiology is no longer allowed epiellie.substack.com/p/in-trumps-... #PublicHealth #Epidemilogy
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In Trump's America, epidemiology is no longer allowed
Is this a feature or a bug?
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
A Deadly Unidentified Disease Has Emerged in the DRC www.wired.com/story/a-dead... "More than 50 people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, most within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms. Initial analysis suggests neither Ebola nor Marburg is the cause." #DRC #Outbreak #MedSky #ID
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Causal association between remnant cholesterol level and risk of cardiovascular diseases: a bidirectional two sample mendelian randomization study pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39511362/ "RC-lowering treatment might be effective in preventing CVDs" #Cardiovascular #Risk #Remnant #Cholesterol #MedSky
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Causal association between remnant cholesterol level and risk of cardiovascular diseases: a bidirectional two sample mendelian randomization study - PubMed
Serum lipids have been associated with an increased risk of various cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in several observational studies, but the causal inference between the remnant cholesterol (RC) level...
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Gene therapy in children with AIPL1-associated severe retinal dystrophy: an open-label, first-in-human interventional study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #RetinalDystrophy #AIPL1 #GeneTherapy #MedSky
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Gene therapy in children with AIPL1-associated severe retinal dystrophy: an open-label, first-in-human interventional study
Our findings indicate that young children with AIPL1-related retinal dystrophy benefited substantially from subretinal administration of rAAV8.hRKp.AIPL1, with improved visual acuity and functional vi...
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
AI ‘scribe’ increases face-to-face time with patients www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-re... #DigitalHealth #Scribe #AI
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AI ‘scribe’ increases face-to-face time with patients
Using an artificial intelligence-powered system to “listen” to patient visits and take notes increased clinician face time with patients and reduced after-hours work.
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Using multimodal A.I. to more accurately predict a person's risk of cancer (and other conditions) by combining proteomics and electronic health records via @erictopol.bsky.social #DigitalHealth #AI #MachineLearning www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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A machine learning approach to leveraging electronic health records for enhanced omics analysis - Nature Machine Intelligence
COMET, an artificial intelligence method that improves the analysis of small medical studies using large clinical databases, has been created. COMET can help develop better artificial intelligence too...
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
How does the public feel about health technologies and data? www.health.org.uk/reports-and-... "perspectives vary across socioeconomic groups, with those in socioeconomic groups D and E notably less positive" #DigitalHealth #HealthData #NHS
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Trump allies have vowed to squash research and fire adversaries www.science.org/content/arti... “You’ve got to be prepared to walk away...But if you’re going to walk away, you have to stand on top of a soapbox and broadcast what happened.” #Climate #Science #Anti-science
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U.S. climate scientists gird for a second Trump administration
Trump allies have vowed to squash research and fire adversaries
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Long-term condition combinations play major role in NHS winter pressures "The risk of hospital admission was found to be 11 times higher among those with the quartet of cardiovascular disease, cancer, kidney disease, and type 2 diabetes" #NHS #Hospitalization #ChronicDiseases
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Specific long-term condition combinations play major role in NHS winter pressures - British Heart Foundation - Data Science Centre
New research has found that specific combinations of chronic health conditions have a major role in the additional pressures the NHS faces every winter. Winter pressures are prompted by the worsening ...
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Pioneering journal eLife faces major test after loss of impact factor www.nature.com/articles/d41... " a result of eLife’s 2023 introduction of a radical publishing model in which it no longer ‘accepts’ or ‘rejects’ manuscripts, but posts all submissions" #eLife #PeerReview #Publishing
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Pioneering journal eLife faces major test after loss of impact factor
The open-access title’s bold publishing model has bought long-bubbling conflicts to the fore.
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Race, Ethnicity, and Sleep in US Children "[]sleep data from racially and ethnically minoritized children exhibited shorter sleep duration and later bedtime, as well as greater variability in bedtime and risetime, than their non-Hispanic White peers" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #SDOH #Medsky
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Race, Ethnicity, and Sleep in US Children
This cross-sectional study analyzes differences in sleep levels and sleep variability among racially and ethnically diverse children in the US.
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted www.science.org/content/arti... "Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds" #Covid19 #Hydroxychloroquine #Retraction #Raoult #IHU #MedSky
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Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted
Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Virtual lab powered by ‘AI scientists’ super-charges biomedical research www.nature.com/articles/d41... "We still need to verify and validate those hypotheses; this is where it’s important to still have the real-world experiment.” #DigitalHealth #AI #VirtualLab #LLM #Interdisciplinary
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Virtual lab powered by ‘AI scientists’ super-charges biomedical research
Could human–AI collaborations be the future of interdisciplinary studies?
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Tissue accumulation of microplastics and potential health risks in human www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "PVC was the dominant polymer in all tissues tested. The highest level occurred in the lungs, and females exhibited higher microplastic abundances than males" #Environment #Medsky
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Tissue accumulation of microplastics and potential health risks in human
Microplastics have become ubiquitous throughout the environment. Humans constantly ingest and inhale microplastics, increasing concerns about the heal…
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Wuhan lab samples hold no close relatives to virus behind COVID www.nature.com/articles/d41... "Shi Zhengli, the virologist at centre of COVID lab-leak theory, reveals coronavirus sequences from Wuhan institute." #Coronaviruses #COVID19 #Medsky
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Wuhan lab samples hold no close relatives to virus behind COVID
Shi Zhengli, the virologist at centre of COVID lab-leak theory, reveals coronavirus sequences from Wuhan institute.
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Health-Tech Innovations to Watch in 2025: AI, Personalisation, and Predictive Care www.healthtechdigital.com/health-tech-... #DigitalHealth #AI #PersonalizedCare #PredictiveCare #MentalHealth
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Health-Tech Innovations to Watch in 2025: AI, Personalisation, and Predictive Care - Digital Health Technology News
As technology continues to evolve, the potential for digital health will only grow. Moving into 2025, the health-tech sector is poised for transformative growth, driven by breakthroughs in AI, advance...
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
12-hour 999 waits and patients treated in converted toilet in NHS winter crisis inews.co.uk/news/politic... #NHS #MedSky
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12-hour 999 waits and patients treated in converted toilet in NHS winter crisis
An inability to meet huge patient demand meant one region saw ambulances failing to turn up to 500 calls in a single day this week
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
[pdf] AGE-WELL Canada's Technology and Aging Network releases its latest annual report 2023/2024 agewell-nce.ca/wp-content/u... #DigitalHealth #Aging #AgeWell #Canada
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
New schizophrenia drug could treat Alzheimer’s disease www.nature.com/articles/d41... #Alzheimer #KarXT #Schizophrenia #BristolMyersSquibb #MedSky #Neurology #Psychiatry
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New schizophrenia drug could treat Alzheimer’s disease
Half a dozen drugs are in trials for conditions of the brain, but success is not guaranteed.
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
[PDF] [Review] Wearable Devices in Cardiovascular Medicine www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1... #DigitalHealth #Wearables #Cardiovascular #Medicine #AHA #Medsky
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Global, regional, and national mortality burden attributable to air pollution from landscape fires: a health impact assessment study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... "Globally, 1.53 million all-cause deaths per year were attributable to Landscape Fire-Sourced Air Pollution" #LFS #ClimateChange
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Global, regional, and national mortality burden attributable to air pollution from landscape fires: a health impact assessment study
LFS air pollution induced a substantial global mortality burden, with notable geographical and socioeconomic disparities. Urgent actions are required to address such substantial health impact and the associated environmental injustice in a warming climate.
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Eli Lilly says its weight loss drug Zepbound outperformed Wegovy in a study www.statnews.com/2024/12/04/z... "Eli Lilly said Zepbound led to 47% greater weight reduction than rival medicine Wegovy" #RCT #Tirzepatide #GLP1 #Zepbound #Wegovy #Lilly #Nordisk #Medsky #Diabetes
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Eli Lilly says its weight loss drug Zepbound outperformed Wegovy in a study
Eli Lilly said its drug Zepbound led to greater weight reduction than rival Novo Nordisk's Wegovy in a head-to-head randomized controlled trial.
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
A multicriteria analysis of meat and milk alternatives from nutritional, health, environmental, and cost perspectives www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #Diet #Ultraprocessed #Food #UPF #Environment #Medsky
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The clear and present danger in healthcare is cyber www.mobihealthnews.com/video/clear-... #DigitalHealth #Cybersecurity #Privacy #Resilience
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The clear and present danger in healthcare is cyber
Businesses have to be able to recover from that, says Heather Costa, director of technology resilience for the Mayo Clinic, who was formerly known as the director of disaster recovery.
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Artificial Intelligence Procurement Toolkit www.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/component... "This toolkit provides a guide for healthcare organizations, including primary care clinics and hospitals, to navigate the complexities of AI procurement" #DigitalHealth #AI #CanadaHealth #Infoway
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Artificial Intelligence Procurement Toolkit | Canada Health Infoway
Infoway works with governments, health care organizations, clinicians and patients to make health care more digital in order to facilitate faster, more seamless
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
That will make an incredible Christmas gift! #CriticalThinking #Books
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Scientists confront a mystery: Why have U.S. bird flu cases been so mild? www.statnews.com/2024/12/02/b... "While grateful, many are perplexed by the H5N1 outbreak’s lack of severity" #H5N1 #BirdFlu #ID #STAT #MedSky
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Scientists confront a mystery: Why have U.S. bird flu cases been so mild?
The H5N1 bird flu outbreak in the U.S. has so far been shockingly mild. Researchers have some theories as to why.
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Recommendations to Ensure Safety of AI in Real-World Clinical Care jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #DigitalHealth #AI #Safety #Ethics
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Recommendations to Ensure Safety of AI in Real-World Clinical Care
This Viewpoint provides recommendations for health care organizations (HCOs) and clinicians to facilitate the use of artificial intelligence (AI)–enabled systems, including electronic health records w...
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Treating eosinophilic exacerbations of asthma and COPD with benralizumab (ABRA): a double-blind, double-dummy, active placebo-controlled randomised trial www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #Asthma #COPD #ClinicalTrial #MedSky
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Treating eosinophilic exacerbations of asthma and COPD with benralizumab (ABRA): a double-blind, double-dummy, active placebo-controlled randomised trial
Benralizumab can be used as a treatment of acute eosinophilic exacerbations and achieves better outcomes than the current standard of care with prednisolone alone. These results offer a new way of tre...
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Establishing responsible use of AI guidelines: a comprehensive case study for healthcare institutions www.nature.com/articles/s41... #DigitalHealth #AI #Safety #Robustness #Privacy
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Establishing responsible use of AI guidelines: a comprehensive case study for healthcare institutions - npj Digital Medicine
npj Digital Medicine - Establishing responsible use of AI guidelines: a comprehensive case study for healthcare institutions
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Taking the pulse: Measuring shared priorities for Canadian health care, 2024 www.cihi.ca/en/taking-th...
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Taking the pulse: Measuring shared priorities for Canadian health care, 2024 | CIHI
A report for Canadians on measuring shared health priorities across provinces and territories.
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The urgent need to accelerate synthetic data privacy frameworks for medical research www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #AI #MedicalResearch #SyntheticData #Privacy
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The urgent need to accelerate synthetic data privacy frameworks for medical research
Synthetic data, generated through artificial intelligence technologies such as generative adversarial networks and latent diffusion models, maintain aggregate patterns and relationships present in the...
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
American College of Radiology launches AI quality registry www.healthcareitnews.com/news/america... "The goal is to give imaging providers a source for analytics on how their clinical artificial intelligence applications are operating over time" #DigitalHealth #AI #Radiology #ACR #Medsky
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American College of Radiology launches AI quality registry
The goal is to give imaging providers a source for analytics on how their clinical artificial intelligence applications are operating over time.
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Can AI review the scientific literature — and figure out what it all means? www.nature.com/articles/d41... #AI #LLM #Scite #Elicit #Undermind #ResearchKick #PaperQA2 #RobotReviewer
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Can AI review the scientific literature — and figure out what it all means?
Artificial intelligence could help speedily summarize research. But it comes with risks.
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Can Google Scholar survive the AI revolution? www.nature.com/articles/d41... "AI-powered chatbots such as ChatGPT and other tools that use large language models have become go-to applications for some scientists when it comes to searching, reviewing and summarizing the literature." #AI #Research
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Can Google Scholar survive the AI revolution?
The largest scholarly search engine is celebrating its 20th birthday, but AI-driven competitors offer advantages.
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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Irregular sleep pattern raises risk of stroke and heart attack, UK study finds www.theguardian.com/society/2024... "the findings suggest that irregular sleep was strongly associated with a risk of major adverse cardiovascular events in adults"
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Irregular sleep pattern raises risk of stroke and heart attack, UK study finds
Variations in time a person goes to sleep and wakes up ‘strongly associated’ with higher risk of negative impacts
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