Highlights From the American College of Cardiology’s 2025 Scientific Session
Ajay J. Kirtane, MD, SM, a professor of medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, discusses late-breaking clinical research presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology in an interview with JAMA Medical News Director Jennifer Abbasi. Related Content: Heart Health Highlights From ACC—Marathon Runners and Mortality, Oral GLP-1 Drugs, and More
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April 2025 Medical News Summary
Axe Falls on Federal Health Workforce; Experts Say CDC Cuts Will Cost Lives Related Content: “Guaranteed Pandemonium” as HHS Secretary Slashes Federal Health Workforce Experts Say Abrupt and “Staggering” CDC Cuts Will Cost Lives
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Real-World Performance of AI in Screening for Diabetic Retinopathy
Diabetic retinopathy remains a leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide, and AI may facilitate screening, if such models continue to perform well when they are deployed in the real world. Coauthors Arthur Brant, MD, of Stanford University, and Sunny Virmani, MS, of Google join JAMA+ AI Editor in Chief Roy H. Perlis, MD, MSc, to discuss a new study published in JAMA Network Open. Related Content: Diabetic Retinopathy Is Massively Underscreened—an AI System Could Help Performance of a Deep Learning Diabetic Retinopathy Algorithm in India
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Can Open-Source LLMs Compete With Proprietary Ones for Complex Diagnoses?
A recent study published in JAMA Health Forum suggests that institutions may be able to deploy custom open-source large language models (LLMs) that run locally without sacrificing data privacy or flexibility. Coauthors Thomas A. Buckley, BS, and Arjun K. Manrai, PhD, from the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School join JAMA+ AI Editor in Chief Roy H. Perlis, MD, MSc, to discuss. Related Content: Can Open-Source AI Models Diagnose Complex Cases as Well as GPT-4?
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March 2025 Medical News Summary
The US Is Suing Pharmacies for Aiding in the Opioid Crisis; Texas Measles Outbreak Spurs Call for Stronger Vaccine Advocacy; Study Finds Sleep-Related Infant Deaths Are on the Rise Related Content: US Government Sues Pharmacy Chains CVS and Walgreens for Their Alleged Role in the Opioid Epidemic Amid Texas Measles Outbreak, Clinicians Struggle to Offset Increasing Vaccine Hesitancy Amid Decreasing Infant Mortality, Sleep-Related Infant Deaths Are on the Rise
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