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Medical Xpress / Multilingual benchmark evaluates how well AI interprets clinical text and health records in nine languages
Researchers at Mass General Brigham recently developed BRIDGE, a multilingual benchmark that evaluates how well large language models (LLMs) understand clinical patient care text, including language used in electronic health ...
Medical Xpress / Autism-related genes may share common path during early brain development
Hundreds of genes have been linked to autism, yet the precise molecular and cellular mechanisms behind it remain largely unclear. A new study published in Nature, led by Gaia Novarino at the Institute of Science and Technology ...
Medical Xpress / Fully open medical AI framework lets anyone audit how clinical LLMs are built
Medical large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used in clinical settings. For example, AI is helping doctors in emergency rooms flag diagnoses or support decisions. The problem is that most of these systems are ...
Medical Xpress / AI model proves to be a heavyweight in tumor assessment: Mesothelioma patients and physicians benefit
Physicians and researchers at the Netherlands Cancer Institute have developed an AI model that outperforms physicians in evaluating treatment response in pleural mesothelioma. Far more accurate than the current international ...
Medical Xpress / Amyloid precursor protein protects neurons during nuclear waste disposal
Researchers at Niigata University's Brain Research Institute have uncovered a new function of amyloid precursor protein (APP), a molecule long studied as the precursor to amyloid-β (Aβ) in Alzheimer's disease (AD). The study ...
Medical Xpress / Antisocial behavior in young people linked to changes throughout the brain
Conduct problems—including persistent rule-breaking, aggression, irritability and difficulty following school rules—are associated with small but widespread differences in brain structure, according to a major international ...
Medical Xpress / Vibrating pill could help predict relapse risk for anorexia nervosa patients
Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric disorder characterized by persistent restriction of food intake, fear of gaining weight and distorted body image, often leading to significantly low body weight. Relapse rates for people ...
Medical Xpress / Birth control pills may increase binge eating, new study reveals
A new study from Michigan State University found increases in binge eating when taking hormone pills in the form of oral contraceptives—but not in all women. This is the first large-scale study of changes in binge-related ...
Medical Xpress / Newborn neurons routinely break then repair DNA during brain cortex formation, study reveals
Newborn nerve cells must squeeze through crowded, narrow spaces—through dense tissue, past other cells, and between fibers—to reach the areas where they form neural circuits in the brain cortex. In a study published in Nature, ...
Medical Xpress / Exploiting a common weakness in enzymes could lead to a single vaccine against diarrhea-causing gut pathogens
The bacteria enterotoxigenic E. coli and Shigella together cause hundreds of millions of infections each year and are among the leading causes of diarrheal death, especially in children. Decades of vaccine development efforts ...
Medical Xpress / Everyday chemical exposures linked to preterm birth and lower birthweight
In one of the largest studies of chemical exposures during pregnancy to date, new research led by the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Stanford University School of Medicine and Woods Institute for the Environment ...
Medical Xpress / Scientists engineer personalized cartilage graft for infants with life-threatening airway narrowing
A study led by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) demonstrates a new method of using decellularized cartilage with patient-specific cells to help enlarge pediatric airways narrowed as a result of severe ...
