23 Recent Articles about the Impact of AI on Health Care

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Harvard Medical School licenses consumer health content to Microsoft – Reuters

AI maps how a new antibiotic targets gut bacteria – MIT

AI can design toxic proteins. They’re escaping through biosecurity cracks. – Washington Post

Doctors develop AI stethoscope that can detect major heart conditions in 15 seconds – The Guardian

A stunning scientific accomplishment: Computers can now design new viruses that can then be created in the lab - Washington Post 

The rising danger of AI-generated images in nanomaterials science and what we can do about it – Nature

Study looks at how biomedical journal editors-in-chief feel about AI use in their journals. - Springer

AI-generated medical data can sidestep usual ethics review, universities say - Nature

Study: Google's Gemma model downplays women's health needs compared to men's – Technology Magazine  

Are AI Tools Making Doctors Worse at Their Jobs – New York Times

ChatGPT Convinced 37-Year-Old Psychologist His Sore Throat Was Fine; Biopsy Revealed Stage 4 Cancer – Mashable

AI designs antibiotics to fight drug-resistant superbugs – Semafor

Study: Some doctors lost skills after just a few months of using AI – Bloomberg

Using generative AI, researchers design compounds that can kill drug-resistant bacteria – MIT

Man develops rare condition after ChatGPT query over stopping eating salt – The Guardian

Ethical Obligations to Inform Patients About Use of AI Tools – Stanford Law

Study finds AI is better than experts at differentiating between human- and AI-written stroke papers - AHAIASA

Bringing AI to medicine requires philosophers, cognitive scientists, and ethicists – Stat News

How AI Is Transforming Kidney Care – MedScape

AI Reads Your Tongue Color to Reveal Hidden Diseases – Scientific American  

A Chinese AI tool can manage chronic disease — could it revolutionize health care? – Nature

With therapy hard to get, people lean on AI for mental health. What are the risks? – NPR

A new AI model can forecast a person’s risk of diseases across their life - Economist

20 Recent Articles about the Impact of AI on Health Care

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An AI-Generated Protein Helps T Cells Kill Cancer – The-Scientist

AI is helping patients fight insurance company denials – NBC News

ChatGPT Tells Pregnant Woman To 'Call an Ambulance'—Saves Their Lives - Newsweek

An Artificial Intelligence Code of Conduct for Health and Medicine –  National Academy of Medicine

Mayo Clinic develops AI tool that can identify 9 dementia types with a single scan – R & D World Online 

Abridge, Whose AI App Takes Notes for Doctors, Valued at $5.3 Billion at Funding – Wall Street Journal  

AI tool diagnoses nine types of dementia with 88% accuracy using a single PET scan – Technology Networks 

Finding viable sperm in infertile men can take days. AI did it in hours. – Washington Post  

AlphaGenome is an AI-powered platform aiming to predict how genetic code variants lead to different diseases – Stat News  

Doctors Report the First Pregnancy Using a New AI Procedure – TIME  

New Arizona law prevents AI from making health insurance denials – AZ Family 

WVU researchers test AI’s limits in emergency room diagnoses – West Virginia University 

The expanding role of AI in dentistry: beyond image analysis – Nature

AI faces skepticism in end-of-life decisions, with people favoring human judgment – Medical Xpress

Explainability in the age of large language models for healthcare - Nature 

It’s too easy to make AI chatbots lie about health information, study finds – Reuters

AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors – MIT Tech Review 

Doctors at Cedars-Sinai develop AI-powered mental health ‘robot’ therapist – LA Times

Microsoft Says Its New AI System Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors – Wired

A GPT-powered medical device certified in Europe raises questions about generative AI in health care – Stat News

23 Recent Articles about the Impact of AI on Health Care

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Medical errors are still harming patients. AI could help change that. – NBC News

AI linked to explosion of low-quality biomedical research papers – Nature  

Machine Learning Model Helps Identify Patients at Risk of Postpartum Depression - Mass General Brigham

Your A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be With You Soon – New York Times  

How AI is changing radiology – Semafor

Medical AI trained on whopping 57 million health records – Nature

Eldercare robot helps people sit and stand, and catches them if they fall – MIT

AI Helped Heal My Chronic Pain – Wall Street Journal

How AI is changing your doctors appointments – Fast Company

As AI in health care proliferates, so do legal questions concerning its use – Stat News

Researchers raise red flag about AI-generated fake images in biomedical research – Medicalxpress

Walgreens doubles down on prescription-filling robots to cut costs, free up pharmacists amid turnaround – CNBC

Artificial neural networks date back to the 1950s – now they're ready to transform healthcare – Health Care IT News  

Artificial intelligence predicts kidney cancer therapy response -  UT Southwestern Medical Center

Refining ALS Diagnosis with AI – First Word Pharma

AI is coming to skin cancer detection - Washington Post

Every doctor is a writer: On the end of note-writing and meaning-making in medicine – Stat News

New AI algorithm to predict risk of cardiovascular events, heart-related death – AM 7 am

AI hasn’t killed radiology, but it is changing it – Washington Post

Transformer AI model detects wheezing in children with over 90% accuracy: study – Korea Biomedical Review

As they push ahead with AI, health leaders must set rules on use – American Medical Association

OpenAI leaps into health care with AI benchmark to evaluate models - Stat News

Medical schools move from worrying about AI to teaching it – American Association of Medical Colleges

Why AI May Be Listening In on Your Next Doctor’s Appointment - Wall Street Journal

29 Articles about the Impact of AI on Health Care

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Arguing the pros and cons of AI in healthcare - TechTarget

Randomized Trial of a Generative AI Chatbot for Mental Health Treatment – New England Journal of Medicine

Apple Readies Its Biggest Push Into Health Yet With New AI Doctor – Bloomberg

Adaptive deep brain stimulation uses AI to reduce Parkinson’s symptoms - The Washington Post

Retracted articles on cancer imaging are not only continuously cited by publications but also used by ChatGPT to answer questions – Science Direct

Open-Source AI Matches Top Proprietary LLM in Solving Tough Medical Cases – Harvard Medical School 

Doctors Told Him He Was Going to Die. Then A.I. Saved His Life. – New York Times 

AI-Powered Test Reveals Biological Age from Small Blood Sample – Inside Precision Medicine

AI failed to detect critical health conditions: study - Axios 

Algorithm may reduce racial, ethnic inequalities in MS treatment: Study – Multiple Sclerosis News Today  

The Hologram Doctor Will See You Now – Wall Street Journal

Machine learning outperforms deep learning in audiometry in a new study – Dev Discourse

Duke Health develops AI model that predicts mental health illness risks for adolescents – CBS17

Pre-trained convolutional neural networks identify Parkinson’s disease from spectrogram images of voice samples – Nature

Can AI predict the next pandemic? A new study says yes – News Medical

Train clinical AI to reason like a team of doctors – Nature

An AI-powered model that accurately predicts blood sugar levels in diabetes patients – Deccan Herald

An AI clinical assistant that automates pre-surgery assessments for cataract patients – BBC

How health insurers are using AI today – StatNews

A diagnostic tool that uses DNA sequencing and machine learning to detect multiple diseases from a single blood sample - Inside Precision Medicine

A Versatile AI System for Analyzing Series of Medical Images - Cornell Medicine

Cancer could be spotted early on thanks to new 'human-defying' AI-powered body scan – Daily Record

AI-based pregnancy analysis discovers previously unknown warning signs for stillbirth and newborn complications – University of Utah

Reid Hoffman Raises $24.6 Million for AI Cancer-Research Startup - Wall Street Journal

From Prediction To Practice: AI’s Role In Healthcare 2025 – Forbes

Assessing AI-Driven Approaches to Student Mental Health – Dartmouth

6 ways AI is transforming healthcare – World Economic Forum

Trump’s early actions imperil efforts to improve AI’s performance in medicine – Stat News

Medical students use AI to practice communication skills - Cornell Chronicle

Wearable AI to enhance patient safety and clinical decision-making – Nature

Stress can do a body good

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Kelly McGonigal, a psychologist at Stanford University and the author of “The Upside of Stress”, helps people rethink stress by telling them that it is what we feel when something we care about is at stake. She asks them to make two lists: of things that stress them; and of things that matter to them. “People realise that if they eliminated all stress their lives would not have much meaning,” she says. “We need to give up the fantasy that you can have everything you want without stress.”

In 2012 a group of scientists in America looked back at the 1998 National Health Interview Survey, which included questions about how much stress the 30,000 participants had experienced in the previous year, and whether they believed stress harmed their health. Next, they pored over mortality records to find out which respondents had died. They found that those who both reported high stress and believed it was harming their health had a 43% higher risk of premature death. Those who reported high stress but did not believe it was hurting them were less likely to die early than those who reported little stress.

The study shows correlation, not causation. But since much stress is unavoidable, working out how to harness it may be wiser than fruitless attempts to banish it.

Read more in the Economist

23 Articles about AI & Healthcare

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Scientists to use AI to analyse 1.6m brain scans to develop tool predicting dementia risk – The Guardian

How AI Could Help Reduce Inequities in Health Care – Harvard Business Review

5 Challenges of AI in Healthcare – Unite AI 

California nurses protest ‘untested’ AI as it proliferates in health care – Health Care Journalism

What accelerates brain ageing? This AI ‘brain clock’ points to answers - Nature

How AI and accelerated computing are transforming drug discovery – Financial Times

How Often Do LLMs Hallucinate When Producing Medical Summaries? -Medcity News

The testing of AI in medicine is a mess. Here’s how it should be done - Nature

A.L.S. Stole His Voice. A.I. Retrieved It. – New York Times

AI tool outperforms existing x-ray structure methods - Chemistry World

A robot just performed fully autonomous surgery on a live patient for the first time – BRG 

Artificial intelligence in scientific medical writing: Legitimate and deceptive uses and ethical concerns – Science Direct  

University of Florida researchers say they have developed a machine learning tool that can track the progression of Parkinson’s disease – Decrypt

MIT Researchers say they have developed an AI model that can accurately identify the stages of some types of breast cancer – MIT  

In Constant Battle With Insurers, Doctors Reach for a Cudgel: A.I. - New York Times 

First ‘bilingual’ brain-reading device decodes Spanish and English words -

Google Is Using A.I. to Answer Your Health Questions. Should You Trust It? - New York Times

Reconciling privacy and accuracy in AI for medical imaging – Nature

How A.I. Is Revolutionizing Drug Development - New York Times

OpenAI and Arianna Huffington are working together on an ‘AI health coach’ – The Verge

End-of-life decisions are difficult and distressing. Could AI help? – MIT Tech Review

States are writing their own rules for AI in health care  - Axios

The testing of AI in medicine is a mess. Here’s how it should be done - Nature

A Dozen Articles about AI & Health Care

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15 Articles about The Potential Impact of AI on Medicine

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Does refusing to act your age delay aging?

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In a UK study, researchers found "people who thought old age began earlier were more likely to have had a heart attack, to be suffering from heart disease or be in poor physical health generally when they were followed up six to nine years later."

Becca Levy of The Yale School of Public Health "followed more than a thousand people who were at least 50 at the time. She found that people who had positive ideas about their own ageing (who agreed with comments such as "I have as much pep as last year" and who disagreed that as you get older you get less useful) lived for an average of 22.6 years after they first participated in the study, while the people who felt less positively about ageing lived for just 15 years more on average."

Claudia Hammond writing for BBC Future suggests "People who think old age starts later in life may be more conscious about their health and fitness and therefore take active steps to stay in better shape. They think they are younger and so behave in younger ways, creating a virtuous circle."

Why a Positive Attitude about Aging is Important

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Our age beliefs can have a direct effect on our physiology. Elderly people who have been primed with negative age stereotypes tend to have higher systolic blood pressure in response to challenges, while those who have seen positive stereotypes demonstrate a more muted reaction. This makes sense: if you believe that you are frail and helpless, small difficulties will start to feel more threatening. Over the long term, this heightened stress response increases levels of the hormone cortisol and bodily inflammation, which could both raise the risk of ill health.

David Robson, The Expectation Effect: How your Mindset Can Transform Your Life

How your Attitude about Age affects your health

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Recent findings suggest that age beliefs may play a key role in the development of Alzheimer’s disease. Tracking 4,765 participants over four years, the researchers found that positive expectations of ageing halved the risk of developing the disease, compared to those who saw old age as an inevitable period of decline. Astonishingly, this was even true of people who carried a harmful variant of the APOE gene, which is known to render people more susceptible to the disease. The positive mindset can counteract an inherited misfortune, protecting against the build-up of the toxic plaques and neuronal loss that characterise the disease. 

David Robson, The Expectation Effect: How your Mindset Can Transform Your Life

 

Why Toilet Paper?

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When people are told something dangerous is coming, but all you need to do is wash your hands, the action doesn't seem proportionate to the threat. The novel coronavirus is engendering a sort of survivalist psychology, where we must live as much as possible at home and thus must 'stock up' on essentials, and that certainly includes toilet paper. After all, if we run out of [toilet paper], what do we replace it with?

Stephen Taylor, The Psychology of Pandemics