npj Digital Medicine - When helpfulness backfires: LLMs and the risk of false medical information due to sycophantic behavior

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

The 21st Century Cures Act provides patients with access to their clinical notes, but most patients, particularly those with limited health literacy, have difficulty understanding and utilizing the...

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have positioned them as powerful tools for clinical decision-making, with rapidly expanding applications in healthcare. However, concerns about bias...

Large Language Models demonstrate expert-level accuracy in medical exams, supporting their potential inclusion in healthcare settings. Here, authors reveal that their metacognitive abilities are under...

Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to be a transformative technology for medicine and health care. As such, there is an increasing interest in ensuring its ethical use. In this perspective, we c...

Microbiology reference laboratories perform a crucial role within public health systems. This role was especially evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this Viewpoint, we emphasise the importance of microbiology reference laboratories and highlight the types of digital data and expertise they provide, which benefit national and international public health. We also highlight the value of surveillance initiatives among collaborative international partners, who work together to share, analyse, and interpret data, and then disseminate their findings in a timely manner.

Complete blood count indices are tightly regulated around setpoints for decades in healthy adults, and represent a deep phenotype providing opportunities for investigating differential disease risks, ...

Large language model-based agentic systems can process input information, plan and decide, recall and reflect, interact and collaborate, leverage various tools and act. This opens up a wealth of oppor...