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07/10/2026

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Evaluating the quality, reliability and readability of digital and artificial intelligence resources for adults with cancer who have significant caregiving responsibilities for children

Families often report searching the internet for guidance on how best to support children when a significant adult has cancer. This study aimed to identify and evaluate the quality, reliability, readability and content of websites, videos, and AI resources available to adults with...

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Evaluating the quality, reliability and readability of digital and artificial intelligence resources for adults with cancer who have significant caregiving responsibilities for children

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07/09/2026

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Large language model-generated clinical summaries in emergency departments: A blinded comparison study

In this blinded study of 99 ED encounters, emergency physicians evaluated paired LLM- and physician-authored summaries on accuracy, completeness, and clinical utility, indicating their overall preference with free-text explanation. LLM-generated one-liner summaries were produced using k-nearest-neighbor few-shot prompting.

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Large language model-generated clinical summaries in emergency departments: A blinded comparison study

07/09/2026

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Doctors vs. Algorithms: Physicians, too, struggle to learn from evidence that contradicts AI suggestions

Despite their widespread adoption, Artificial Intelligence-based Patient Classification Systems sometimes rely on incorrect, outdated, or incomplete data, which can lead to inaccurate outputs. Nevertheless, health professionals are expected to override these errors, at least when they have access to critical information.

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Doctors vs. Algorithms: Physicians, too, struggle to learn from evidence that contradicts AI suggestions

06/18/2026

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Sunscreen is overwhelmingly promoted on TikTok, but content with misinformation exhibits proportionally high levels of audience interaction

This study examined the presence, engagement levels, and characteristics of sunscreen-related misinformation on TikTok. The authors conducted a content analysis on 971 of the most viewed TikTok videos across the five most popular and relevant hashtags.

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06/11/2026

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A digital twin approach for simultaneous reconstruction of brain anatomy and dynamics from neural data

The authors introduce the FEDE (high FidElity Digital brain modEl) pipeline, generating anatomically accurate brain digital twins from imaging data. Combining advanced techniques of finite-element analysis and biophysical modeling, FEDE reconstructs multi-scale brain structure with high spatial resolution...

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06/11/2026

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Clinical artificial intelligence applications of vision-language foundation models

Vision-language models (VLMs) represent a transformative advance in generative artificial intelligence (AI), using multimodal data processing to enhance clinical decision-making and workflow efficiency. Built on transformer architectures, VLMs excel in tasks like image interpretation, report generation, and visual question-answering, with emerging applications in radiology, pathology, and broader...

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05/14/2026

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Retinal biological age correlates with bone mineral density and fracture risk score and predicts incident osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a common condition that weakens bones and raises the risk of fractures, especially in older adults.

$Retinal biological age correlates with bone mineral density and fracture risk score and predicts incident osteoporosis$

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05/13/2026

Review

Decoding (digital) histopathology: The building blocks for computational researchers

Computational Pathology is a novel discipline at the intersection of pathology and computer science, driven by the recent advances in machine learning and image analysis.

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05/07/2026

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Effectiveness of a universal digital–human parenting intervention in promoting early childhood development and protection: A pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial

Delayed early childhood development and violence...

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04/03/2026

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A pilot study of the online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Guide for Immigrant Resilience: A culturally adapted intervention for undocumented community members

This pilot implementation study evaluated the online ACT Guide...

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