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Digital Humans – Helpful Assistants or Deceptive Trust-Creators?
Digital humans, developed by Soul Machines, are AI-driven entities designed to assist in customer service, healthcare, and education by mimicking human expressions and interactions. While their creators argue that human-like AI fosters trust and efficiency, [...]
Japan Turns to AI-Driven Robots to Tackle Elderly Care Crisis
Japan is turning to AI-driven robot nurses to assist in elderly care with the AIREC humanoid robot that is designed to perform caregiving tasks like repositioning patients. Read More.
OpenAI Launches GPT-4.5 for ChatGPT—It’s Huge and Compute-Intensive
OpenAI has introduced GPT-4.5, its largest and most intensive AI model to date. This aims to enhance ChatGPT's understanding of user prompts. Read More.
Train Clinical AI To Reason Like A Team Of Doctors
Following a surge of excitement after the launch of the artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT in November 2022, governments worldwide have been striving to craft policies that will foster AI development while ensuring the technology remains [...]
AI robots may hold key to nursing Japan’s aging population
Due to a population decline and healthcare professional shortages, Japan sees its opportunity to properly care for the elderly by using robot nurses. While the Moravec paradox is against that, the intention is understandable. Read More.
Digital Humans – Helpful Assistants Or Deceptive Trust-Creators
Digital humans are increasingly being used to interact with real humans. The question is, are they helpful assistants, or is there something dishonest about their ‘employment’? Read More.
Train Clinical AI to Reason Like a Team of Doctors
Christopher R. S. Banerji, Tapabrata Chakraborti, Aya Abdelsalam Ismail, Florian Ostamnn, and Ben D. MacArthur propose that encoding conceptual reasoning in AI, mirroring established clinical decision-making processes, can support oversight and act as a blueprint [...]
Pig organs in people: The future of cross-species transplants
More than 100,000 people in the United States are waiting for a new heart, kidney or some other organ. Many will die waiting. Some scientists see new hope for these people in organs from pigs [...]
AI Robots May Hold Key to Nursing Japan’s Ageing Population
An AI caregiving robot called AIREC is being developed to support Japan's care worker shortage in the face of a rapidly ageing population. Read More.
Bioethics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Navigating Opportunities, Challenges and Responsibilities
Artificial intelligence is rapidly re-shapeing the landscape of healthcare and biomedical research, prompting bioethics to evolve in response. In this talk, Dr. Effy Vayena discussed how AI introduces novel ethical challenges, urging bioethicists to broaden [...]
OpenAI Launches GPT-4.5 for ChatGPT—It’s Huge and Compute-Intensive
Internally called Orion, GPT-4.5 is OpenAI’s largest model to date, and it’s first available through the company’s $200 monthly ChatGPT subscription. Read More.
Trump Wants To Lower The Cost Of IVF. A New Executive Order Seeks Ideas To Do That
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing policy recommendations to reduce the high costs of in vitro fertilization (IVF), aiming to make it more accessible and affordable for families facing infertility challenges. Read [...]
Trillions of Viruses Live in Your Body. A.I. Is Trying to Find Them.
Artificial intelligence is being utilized to identify and analyze the trillions of viruses in the human body, aiming to enhance our understanding of their roles in health and disease. Read More.
Despite Church Prohibitions, Catholics Still Choose IVF to Have Children
For the Catholic Church, in vitro fertilization is a morally objectionable procedure because it manipulates a process that ought to be natural and involves the creation of multiple embryos – beings with moral status – [...]
Urgent CDC Data and Analyses on Influenza and Bird Flu Go Missing as Outbreaks Escalate
Crucial CDC data on influenza and bird flu outbreaks has been lacking since President Trump took office, leaving healthcare workers in the dark about best current and future practices. Read More.
The Physicians Really Are Healing Themselves, With Ozempic
Physicians are increasingly using medicines like Ozempic, originally designed for diabetes management, to achieve significant weight loss and improve metabolic health. Read More.
Slouching Toward Kakistocracy: Experts Need Not Apply
The appointment of unqualified individuals to key government positions, particularly in health agencies, threatens essential services like disease surveillance and environmental protections, which depend on expert knowledge. Read More.
Extended Reality’s Newly Found Role In Radiology
Extended Reality (XR) technologies are enhancing surgical precision by allowing surgeons to overlay a patient’s radiology scans in real life using reality headsets. Read More.
How Apple’s Vision Pro Is Redefining Surgical Training Around The World
Some medical institutions are using Apple's $3,500 Vision Pro headset to practice surgery in virtual environments, eliminating the need for costly cadavers that can exceed $10,000. Read More.
Nine Unvaccinated People Hospitalized As Texas Measles Outbreak Doubles
A measles outbreak in West Texas has escalated to 24 confirmed cases, primarily affecting unvaccinated children and adolescents therefore prompting health officials to emphasize the importance of vaccination in preventing the spread of a contagious [...]
Understanding Patients’ Voices: Patient-Centered Measurement
Leah McCliman's Patient Centered Measurement proposes a procedural theory of measuring constructs that are contingent on patient perspectives, such as quality of life and satisfaction with treatment. This involves continuous adjustment and feedback based on [...]
The Legalities of Text Donations: Compliance and Regulations
Texting as a tool in the intricate business communications model must adhere to the relevant regulations. Read More
Nine unvaccinated people hospitalized as Texas measles outbreak doubles
Undoing the vaccine on its face is befuddling, which creates an aura of self-defeating by the decades ago conquered ailments. Read more
Supporting Patients and Students Who Are Immigrants: What to Do and Why Most Bioethicists Won’t Do It
Lending meaningful support to immigrant students and patients in challenging moments. Read More.