JAMA Medical News
JAMA Medical News
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Discussions of timely topics in clinical medicine, biomedical research, public health, health policy, and more, featured in the Medical News section of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.
AI and Clinical Practice—The Potential for AI to Enable Speech and Facilitate Full Expression for Individuals With Brain Injuries
AI can understand brain signals linked to the sensory and motor processes involved in speech. In this Q&A, Edward Chang, MD, the chair and professor of neurosurgery at UCSF joins JAMA's Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, to discuss how AI has the potential to facilitate communication and how close AI development is to being able to translate human emotion. Related Content: Digital Avatars and Personalized Voices—How AI Is Helping to Restore Speech to Patients
Mar 22
21 min
AI and Clinical Practice—How AI Could Advance Human Heart Discoveries and Improve Care
Can AI enhance the speed and efficiency of interpreting ultrasounds and echocardiograms, thereby minimizing diagnostic errors? In this Q&A, Rima Arnaout, MD, a cardiologist and associate professor of medicine at the University of California-San Francisco, joins JAMA's Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, to discuss the transformative impact of AI on cardiac imaging. Related Content: How Machine Learning Might Help Improve Cardiac Imaging
Mar 6
17 min
February 2024 Medical News Summary
Rural Maternity Care Is in Crisis—Here’s What Could Help; Type and Severity of Immunodeficiency Affect Speed of SARS-CoV-2 Clearance, Study Finds Related Content: More Than Half of US Rural Hospitals No Longer Offer Birthing Services—Here’s Why When It Comes to SARS-CoV-2 Clearance, People Who Are Immunocompromised Are Not All Alike
Mar 1
13 min
AI and Clinical Practice: Automation Bias and Short Cuts in Clinical AI Models
Automation bias and shortcuts in clinical AI models have posed significant challenges. In this Q&A, Jenna Wiens, PhD, an associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, joins JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, to discuss how we can start leveraging human collaboration with AI to provide more effective health care. Related Content: Blind Spots, Shortcuts, and Automation Bias—Researchers Are Aiming to Improve AI Clinical Models
Feb 28
28 min
AI and Clinical Practice—AI and the Ethics of Developing and Deploying Clinical AI Models
AI in clinical practice needs ethical frameworks to avert future biases. In this Q&A, Marzyeh Ghassemi, PhD, the Herman L. F. von Helmholtz Career Development Professor at MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), joins JAMA's Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, to discuss ethical machine learning and responsible clinical implementation. Related Content: AI Developers Should Understand the Risks of Deploying Their Clinical Tools, MIT Expert Says
Feb 7
24 min
January 31, 2024,  Medical News Summary
What the Latest Research Says About Paxlovid; People Are Using Potentially Dangerous “Trip-Killers” to Counter Psychedelics; Social Media Affects Youth Mental Health—Here’s What Could Help Related Content: Paxlovid Is Effective but Underused—Here’s What the Latest Research Says About Rebound and More Study Finds Hundreds of Reddit Posts on “Trip-Killers” for Psychedelic Drugs Social Media Industry Standards Needed to Protect Adolescent Mental Health, Says National Academies
Jan 31
15 min
January 24, 2024, Medical News Summary
After a Decade, Goodbye to the Pooled Cohort Equations? Experts Tackle Racial Bias in Clinical Algorithms; How COVID-19 Might Be Tied to Other Respiratory Disease Outbreaks Related Content: What to Know About PREVENT, the AHA’s New Cardiovascular Disease Risk Calculator Citing Harms, Momentum Grows to Remove Race From Clinical Algorithms From “Immunity Debt” to “Immunity Theft”—How COVID-19 Might Be Tied to Recent Respiratory Disease Surges
Jan 24
21 min
AI and Clinical Practice—Discovery and Scaling Findings From Large, Multicenter Health Care Datasets
How can we leverage AI to transform health care into a more efficient model for delivering care? In this Q&A, JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, interviews Atul Butte, MD, PhD, the director of the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute at UCSF, to discuss scalable privilege and the need for the broad distribution of AI-driven expertise. Related Content: “Scalable Privilege”—How AI Could Turn Data From the Best Medical Systems Into Better Care for All
Jan 24
21 min
AI and Clinical Practice—AI Monitoring to Reduce Data-Based Disparities
Amid the surging buzz around artificial intelligence (AI), can we trust the Al hype, and more importantly, are we ready for its implications? In this Q&A, Arvind Narayanan, PhD, a professor of computer science at Princeton, joins JAMA's Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, to discuss the exploration of Al's fairness, transparency, and accountability. Related Content: How to Navigate the Pitfalls of AI Hype in Health Care
Jan 3
25 min
December 2023 Medical News Summary
The Next Generation of COVID-19 Vaccines May Be Inhaled; Does Paxlovid Prevent Long COVID? Apply to the Morris Fishbein Fellowship in Medical Editing. Related Content: Up the Nose and Down the Windpipe May Be the Path to New and Improved COVID-19 Vaccines Studies Investigate Whether Antivirals Like Paxlovid May Prevent Long COVID The Morris Fishbein Fellowship in Medical Editing
Dec 28, 2023
14 min
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