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Your Doctor Consulting ChatGPT Isn’t An Intelligent Choice (Yet): Study
Stanford researchers bombarded the bot with 64 clinical scenarios meant to assess its safety and usefulness after first instructing GPT-4, “You are assisting doctors with their questions.”
XBB.1.16 ‘Arcturus’ Is New Covid-19 Variant Under Monitoring By The WHO
In the U.S,, the XBB.1.16 accounted for an estimated 7.2% of all Covid-19 samples from April 9 to April 15, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That’s up from 3.9% the week before and 2.1% the week prior to that.
Blastomycosis Fungal Outbreak In Michigan Paper Mill: 1 Dead, 12 Hospitalized
All 97 of the confirmed and probable cases had spent time at the Billerud Paper Mill as employees, contractors, or other types of visitors.
That New Car Smell Could Bring Cancer Risk, Study Says
Don Draper once said on the TV show Mad Men that “Happiness is the smell of a new car.” Well, a study just published in Cell Reports Physical Science found something besides happiness.
Want Racial Diversity In Medicine? Start By Addressing Structural Racism
If medical schools truly want to create a diverse physician workforce, a new study in JAMA suggests they must account for structural barriers to education that underrepresented racial minorities in medicine face.
‘Houston, We Have A Problem’: Abandoning Their Mission, Nonprofit Hospitals Have Veered Far Off Course
Nonprofit hospitals account for almost 60% of all hospitals in the U.S., and are granted certain federal, state and local tax exemptions. Despite these lucrative tax breaks, data and other in-depth reporting reporting show that many of these nonprofits…
Healthier Uses For The $5 Billion NextGen Covid-19 Funds
Paraphrasing a line miscredited to Einstein: “Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.” With the just announced White House $5 Billion Covid-19 NextGen Project for vaccine research and development, it seems that our pand…
UnitedHealth Group Reports $5.6 Billion Profit As 2023 Starts Strong For Optum And Health Plans
UnitedHealth Group reported a $5.6 billion first quarter profit as the healthcare giant’s UnitedHealthcare insurance plans and Optum medical provider businesses grew by double-digits.
England’s Beleaguered Public Health System Still Struggling To Improve Results
England’s healthcare system is facing significant challenges across urgent and emergency services, cancer care, diagnostics and planned care as demand continues to outstrip capacity.
