What does pediatric #cancer and #gunviolence (sadly) share in common?

Please watch and share… americancancerstory.com

#AmericanCancerStory @AmericanCancerStory

BYOB (Bring Your Won Bugs): 86% of the bacteria causing infections after spine surgery were genetically matched to bacteria a patient carried before #surgery .

sciencealert.com/scientists-rev…

Study in Science Magazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #infectiousdisease #MedTwitter

Human- #AI interaction in skin cancer diagnosis: a systematic review & meta-analysis

“AI benefitted medical professionals of all experience levels in subgroup analyses, with largest improvement among non-dermatologists”

In npj Digital Medicine #digitalhealth

nature.com/articles/s4174…

Wow— A bit too easy to make an #AI generated song now… my prompt on udio “An upbeat Beatles style song about holding hands in the beach… Listen 👉🏼

udio.com/songs/7E13vgqW…

Leveraging #AI to mine EMR data for earlier pancreatic cancer detection and care.

Exciting possibilities covered by Eric Topol & Anirban Maitra

thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Satellite images from NASA and NOAA showing the moon’s shadow moving across North America during the #SolarEclipse

#GenerativeAI develops potential new drugs for antibiotic-resistant bacteria

@StanfordMedicine researchers devise a new AI model, SyntheMol, which creates recipes for chemists to synthesize the drugs in the lab.

med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/… #pharma

The future is coming faster (and sometimes slower) than you think 😐

Hard to believe it's been 13 years this week since TEDx Maastricht 2011, a catalytic, forward thinking gathering curated by the incomparable Lucien Engelen & where I also met & became friends & co-conspirators…

Evaluating LLMs as agents in the clinic: “ #AI Structured Clinical Examinations”

“…it may become necessary to shift our benchmarks from static datasets to dynamic simulation environments & transition from language modeling “to agent modeling.

nature.com/articles/s4174…

An implantable, soft, flexible battery that uses oxygen in the blood to help generate electricity—could potentially extend the lifetime of medical implants in the body.

spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical-imp…

Where AirBnBs are fully booked for Sunday…

#Eclipse2024

The FDA clears Rejoyn, the 1st prescription digital treatment for major depressive disorder.

Rejoyn, made by Otsuka Pharmaceuticals & Click Therapeutics®, is a smartphone app intended for use alongside antidepressant medications.

#DigitalHealth #MentalHealth

cnn.com/2024/04/02/hea…

It's been wonderful to see the support from the international Medical Extended Reality ( #MXR ) community for J Med XR, the new journal co-sponsored by American Medical Extended Reality Association & #IVRHA . Over 3K downloads from the first group of papers published in Jan, including the 1st AMXRA guideline. Info:

30% of pediatric residency programs did not fill their residency positions this year.

We need more pediatricians and to pay them better.

Rx & prevention of diseases in childhood is the highest yield and most cost-containing of all medical specialties.

statnews.com/2024/04/02/too…

DrugGPT: New #AI tool may offer prescription ‘safety net’ and reduce the 237m medication errors made each year in England

“It will show you the guidance – the research, flowcharts & references – & why it recommends this particular drug.”

amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.thegua…

Medical Extended Reality #MXR is now a legitimate branch of medicine…

It now has its own Journal of Medical Extended Reality

home.liebertpub.com/publications/j…

Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSHS Omer Liran, MD co-chairs of Virtual Medicine #vMed24 #VR #AR #MedEd

Sam Altman once posted that “GPT is like an e-bike for the mind.”

What happens if our kids never learn how to ride a regular bike…and will they ever develop their biking muscles? Sam Altman

Peer-reviewed data from UC San Diego Health shows AI-assisted sepsis diagnosis is helping save over 50 lives every year!

The notion of AI as not only helpful but 𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 is beginning to take root (a short 🧵)