Documented patient values changed the model’s performance: agreement with patients’ hypothetical treatment choices rose to about 73%, versus 42.0%–45.2% without those values. This is a promising signal from…

An automated, guideline-based management system modestly improved LDL cholesterol and blood-pressure control during the first three months after discharge for coronary heart disease. The randomized trial suggests that…

A machine-learning analysis of more than 3.7 million aid projects reveals a striking imbalance: non-communicable diseases caused 59.5% of global disability-adjusted life years but received only 2.5% of…

SHAKED delivered largely appropriate clinical suggestions without an observed safety signal, but clinicians used it in fewer than half of eligible encounters and adoption declined sharply. The prospective…

Artificial intelligence can contribute more than an immediate solution: under the right conditions, its discoveries can enter human culture and survive after the machines are gone. In this…

This week’s strongest studies asked harder questions than whether AI can predict: Can it ground findings in anatomy, recover missed diagnoses, change care, and earn trust when fluent…

Health-chatbot use does not follow a single global pattern. How often people used Microsoft Copilot for health was associated with confidence in hospitals, while what they asked reflected…

Tissues do not necessarily age in step with the person who carries them. By analyzing histological architecture at scale, Abila, Buljan, Zheng and colleagues developed organ-specific clocks that…

ReXGroundingCT turns narrative chest CT findings into spatial targets: 8,028 text-to-segmentation pairs across 3,142 scans. Yet even after fine-tuning, the best reported Dice score was only 0.205.

An AI symptom checker embedded in South Africa’s MomConnect platform provided clinically safe urgency advice in 98.4% of physician-reviewed cases and was followed by a substantial increase in…