AI Health Friday Roundup 2025
The AI Health Friday Roundup highlights the week’s news and publications related to artificial intelligence, data science, public health, clinical research, health policy, and more.
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: choosing measures for AI performance; problems with AI simulation in behavioral studies; AI ethics textbook full of bogus citations; testing different chatbots on subspecialty boards; looking back on the year on computer science; analysis flags questionable publication practices; machine learning model spots liver disease in EKG data; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: the merits of explainable AI in healthcare; PFAS chemicals and infant health; ambient scribing systems and clinician burnout; links between tattoos and immune response; blood tests for cancer; use of problematic database leads to scores of paper retractions; using AI to review scientific papers; autoencoders for high-dimensional datasets; more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: considering healthcare AI bubbles; Cochrane reports on HPV vaccine and cervical cancer; egregious AI slop crops up in autism paper; even microbes can sense seasonal change; academic libraries in the AI age; why lonely people turn to chatbots; AI-written peer reviews (and papers) show up en masse at conference; medical AI and alignment questions; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In today’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: practice licenses for AI?; drones deliver defibrillators fast; how to approach the need for continuous evaluation of predictive models; light pollution messes with ecosystem metabolism; basic AI competencies for docs; cancer vaccine trial shows encouraging results two decades later; getting arsenic out of well water yields health dividends; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: puzzle-solving approaches illuminate new pathways for AI development; mechanistic link between Epstein-Barr virus and lupus uncovered; picking the right framework for reporting on general AI research in healthcare; new chip extends quantum computing capabilities; interrogating the creative potential of AI; updated Turing Test uncovers key differences between human and AI speech; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: offloading moral agency to chatbots; benefits and limits of RAG-based large language models for medical teaching; tiny tyrannosaur confirmed; helping doctors navigate feelings of shame; bogus, AI-penned letters crowd the plate at journals; LLMS for data extraction; AIs struggle to understand out-of-sequence comic strips; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: using LLMs for research changes quality of downstream product; how activity occurs modulates exercise benefits; script sleuths for bogus citations; BBC study finds bots distort news; humans and LLMs apply different priorities when asked to exercise judgment; analysis finds benefit for RSV vaccination in older adults; paper-mill proliferation drives need for countermeasures; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: mimicking brain “modularity” for better AI models; bumblebee empathy; “fragility” of GPT-5 output in medical settings; mRNA COVID vaccines boost immune response against some cancers; human vs LLM in medical diagnosis; framework for evaluating risk of memorization in EHR-trained foundation models; AI-generated lesson plans fail to impress; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: too much emphasis on chatbots?; new pathway for pain relief; state of play in medical AI; cuts at CDC hit NHANES, ethics review; bioinformatics expertise still relevant in AI age; promising work on cancer vaccines; waiting for shoe to drop on NIH APC policy; building better AI models for chemistry; measles outbreak prompts quarantine in South Carolina schools; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: probing the inner workings of large language models; AI tackles biosecurity; librarians try stem the tide of AI slop in collections; organic compounds found in spray from Enceladus geysers; AI sycophants erode prosocial behavior; childhood stress echoes in adult health; effective agentic AI requires surprisingly few training samples; more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: machine learning parses sleep data; fat-tailed lemurs point humanity’s way to the stars; AI system delivers health predictions for decades into the future; proposing an ‘S-Index’ to capture academic service contributions; potential pitfalls of using LLMs as stand-ins for human respondents in survey research; mapping the spread of measles in 2025; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: promise and peril from medical chatbots; AI and magical thinking; new class of antibiotics shows promise vs MDR strains; delegating tasks to AI may boost dishonesty; dynamics of human-AI teamwork; worries that hospital-acquired infections aren’t being reported; why cats graze; survey reflects public jitters about AI’s prospects; more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: why LLMs hallucinate; origins of small-cell lung cancer revealed; lightweight language model overcomes resource bottlenecks; surveying the big picture on microplastics; modeling scientific risk-taking; worries that AI is eroding critical thinking; AI governance lessons from the world of genetics; new STARD-AI reporting guidelines for diagnostic accuracy studies; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: LLMs extract safety data from product labels; daylight saving time maybe not that bad; the limits of vibe coding; getting a handle on Alzheimer’s heritability; AI impersonates docs to pitch dodgy products; calculating ROI for COVID vaccination; Medicare Advantage plans might be contributing to hospital discharge bottlenecks; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: AI video analysis illuminates neuromuscular diseases; authors may be under-reporting their use of AI in research; a different angle on AI and physician deskilling; as thumbs get bigger, so do brains; pediatric cancer trials network loses funding, stops enrollment; analysis reveals shady publication network; trial evaluates effects of ultra-processed foods; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: explainable AI in healthcare; light pollution and air pollution and cardiorenal health; effects of laws against surprise medical billing; model for flu vax development; can generative AI cope with retracted articles?; mapping microscopic tuberculosis “cities”; Mediterranean diet, genetics, and Alzheimer risk; new approach for brain-computer interfaces; integrating AI into peer review; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: potential benefits and challenges of ambient listening; genetic influences on chronic pain; what patients need to know about health AI; labeling mental health chatbots for safety; AI-powered research and plagiarism; rotating menu selections for healthier eating; large proportion of AI implementations are failing; shrinking medical school from 4 years to 3; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: cat facts derail reasoning models; hallucinated anatomy in preprint raises eyebrows; microplastic exposure maybe greater than thought; potential for physician deskilling with AI tools; lithium may play critical role in Alzheimer’s; paper mill output threatens to swamp legitimate science; questioning AI’s role in educational spaces; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: machine learning models unlock “undruggable” targets; “virtual lab” of AI assistants develops nanobodies; lead linked to memory problems many years after exposure; why anteaters keep coming; Bluesky’s performance among scholars; AI casually defeats “not a robot” CAPTCHA; LLM hallucinates a diagnosis, other details into patient medical record; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: how patients feel about doctors using AI; drug-eluting composites for fixing bones; the value of publishing null results; why thinking more makes some reasoning models perform worse; flossing tested as alternative to needles for vaccination; study implicates increased calories, not lack of activity, in obesity rates; LLM helps adapt radiology reports for patients; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: why some LLMs start off confidently – and then retreat; organoids grow vascularized tissue; modeling the feedback loops that are straining scientific publishing; how AI tools can change the experience of disability; how to approach continuous variables; “exposome” elements that affect aging; ML model detects structural heart disease from ECG data; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: LLM writing crops up in the biomedical literature; declining health outcomes for US children; reprieve for AI regulation efforts; reproducibility in Drosophila research; jailbreaking LLMs by flooding them with information; Medicaid cuts imperil NC hospitals; HHS sued by professional organizations over changes to vaccine policy; cybersecurity for medical devices; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: the importance of AI literacy; lenacapavir’s huge promise for HIV prevention overshadowed by public health cuts; the bumpy road of modern medicine and statistical thinking; failure and lessons learned from Amsterdam’s AI experiment; downstream harm from cutting NIH funding; tracking spread of avian flu in cats; nurse practitioners filling gaps in geriatric care; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Roundup: LLMs excel at differential diagnosis; mapping diabetes incidence with microplastics burden in coastal US; judge orders canceled NIH grants restored; fired ACIP members speak up; HHS documents on vaccine safety sharply criticized; humans put too much trust in LLM-generated output in healthcare scenarios; agentic AI tackles automation of systematic reviews; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: agentic AI for oncology decision support; CDC’s expert advisory panel for vaccines dismissed; revisiting the lessons of the Statesville experiments; worries that visa clampdown will worsen doctor shortage; commercialization pathways for medical AI; CHAI working with Joint Commission on responsible health AI standards; the role of patient expectations in outcomes; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: parsing AI device data in MAUDE; tracking the academic migration to Bluesky; FDA accelerates internal AI rollout; trial finds benefit for exercise after cancer treatment; no-code AI company reported to rely on unseen human efforts; effects of work requirements for SNAP; funding secured for science sleuths; older expert-system AI goes head-to-head with LLMs; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: scientific innovation: slowing or just fine?; oversight for genAI in medical education; HHS abruptly alters COVID vaccine recommendations; survey study looks at AI use in US health systems; funding changes place severe stress on early-career scientists; persistent decline in self-reported mental health for mothers; HHS secretary suggests barring government scientists from publishing in major journals; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: prize for (AI-assisted) talking to the animals; tallying withdrawn applications at NIH; LLMs tend to overgeneralize; aha moments play important role in memory; the long-running benefits of measles vaccination; AI slop comes for summer reading lists; paper on AI-boosted productivity withdrawn; aligning AI principles with real-world governance needs; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: using LLMs to map data to common data elements; new benchmark for healthcare LLMs debuts; social penalties for using AI in the workplace; SPIRIT protocol guidelines updated; worries that primary care is buckling under nonclinical workload; parsing FDA plans for deploying generative AI for product evaluation; avoiding problematic “elderspeak”; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: tortoises, hares & disruption in AI governance; scrutinizing LLM apps for patient portal notes; new direction for vaccine development; instrumental variables for clinical trials; unpacking the costs of a cancer therapy; why primary care is different for ML; genetic study illuminates remarkable free-diving abilities; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: SHADES lets researchers spot bias in non-English datasets; therapeutic chatbots and chatbots that claim to be therapists; nurses’ perspective powers AI surveillance in ICU; vaccine simulation study predicts return of endemic measles; an oral history of LLMs; ditching daylight savings; cuts to research may rock national economy; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: Duke scientists use AI to create protein “shrinkray”; LLM anonymizes chart data; revisiting Mendel’s peas; funding cut for Women’s Health Study; medical education paradigm for AI regulation; no evidence of cognitive decline in older digital tech users; creating a better evidence base for digital technology effects on users; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: AI hallucinations offer opportunity for malware; how to read an article about AI; probing deficiencies in heart failure care; AlphaFold2 sometimes posits unlikely protein structures; challenges of implementing health AI in under-resourced health systems; teachers wrestle with AI in the classroom (and lesson planning); computational analysis shows decline in evidence-based appeals in Congressional speeches; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: general LLMs still trail locally trained models – but are improving; Stanford HAI releases 2025 AI index; rural hospitals and patients suffer from lagging infrastructure; Anthropic survey sheds light on how students use AI; report to Congress warns that US biotechnology lead is slipping; oxygen tolerance may have evolved earlier than thought; questioning the choice of benchmarks when modeling performance with health AI; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: teachers fret about AI impact on critical thinking; potential for coordinated multi-agent healthcare AI; the role of creative pursuits in shoring up mental health; avoiding condescension in the clinic; imaging AI shows disparate diagnostic performance; RCT evaluates therapeutic chatbot; correlations between wealth and health in US and Europe; rolling out an LLM-based documentation support tool; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: LLM framework for more flexible robots; PROBAST updates guidelines for AI predictive models; getting a handle on future dementia incidence; finding new targets for drugs with AI; NC Medicaid pilots cost more at first, then yield savings; 23andMe bankruptcy leaves consumers and researchers weighing options, risks; study queries docs’ opinions about ambient AI transcription in clinic; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: articles with three-part titles tend to get cited more; using AI to hunt errors in scientific literature; backpropagation for general-purpose LLMs; analogs of addiction in internet use; Faraday’s notebooks unveiled to public; journal click-through suffers as AI-generated summaries proliferate; framework allows selection of best AI tools for task; LLMs in wide use for search and research return substantial proportion of errors; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: study examines use of NLP for chart message routing; new nonprofit provides home for bioRxiv and medRxiv; study weighs patient preferences for AI vs human messaging; signs of AI “peer review” crop up in comments on a journal submission; the case for keeping both efficacy and safety as key criteria for FDA drug approval; “red-teaming” ChatGPT outputs in clinical settings; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: “tiny” ML poised to play a big role; new resource makes continuous-monitoring data from the ED available; Francis Collins departs NIH; patterns of uptake of large language model technologies contain some surprises; AI model predicts mental health risk for adolescents; remembering a prolific blood donor whose rare plasma was a life-saving boon to thousands; is AI capable of clinical reasoning; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: when AI departs from its original goals; flood of electronic messages for docs has not abated; weird patents are latest angle in bogus science credentials; foundation model for genomic prediction; clinicians report on ambient AI-powered scribing for chart notes; junk food excursions may affect the brain; respect for human rights understood as opportunity for AI; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: curated source for automated machine learning papers; using AI in the fight against epidemics; gene-spliced mice offer clue to human language evolution; NIH study sections remain in stasis; assessing spironolactone in myocardial infarction; when to use trial emulation; unpacking the implications of reductions in indirect costs; the role of environmental exposures in health burdens of aging; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: TRAIN AI consortium debuts; possible role for LLMs in doctors’ management decisions; AI company loses copyright lawsuit; is genAI use affecting human cognition and memory?; AI interprets ambulatory EKG data; looking at promise vs reality in CRISPR therapeutics; transplant data infrastructure needs updating; weighing regulatory possibilities for health AI; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this Friday’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: MASAI study tests AI for mammography screening; the growing health threat posed by microplastics and an association with dementia; LLM “translates” clinic notes into plain-language text; global survey on AI use in science; the indirect toll of morbidity and mortality exacted by flooding disasters; adopting zero-trust architecture for scholarly publishing; best practices for deploying trustworthy health AI; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: DeepSeek model release makes big splash in the AI pond, turns heads; lifestyle interventions to prevent cognitive decline; time to ditch USMLE as health AI benchmark?; relationships between education and life expectancy across US counties; junk science pumped out by paper mills permeates search results; figuring out LLMs’ place in the scientific enterprise; setting priorities for health AI; more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: examining AI’s prospects in drug development; mouse study suggests potential for xenon as Alzheimer’s therapeutic; advocating for a “master of digital health” degree; neuromorphic computing as next step in AI evolution; looking at how often the unexpected emerges from grant-funded research; narrowing the calibration gap between what LLMs “know” and what people think they know; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: amount of misinformation needed to “poison” an AI; projected burden of dementia may be greater than previously thought; will LLMs lighten clinician loads – or add to them?; how exposure to red light may be related to thrombosis risk; learning to do better with communicating science; leveraging LLMs to improve health equity; health systems scramble to assure compliance with algorithmic nondiscrimination requirements; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: TRIPOD releases LLM reporting guidelines; scrutinizing patient-facing genAI; prospects for a cytomegalovirus vaccine; protecting academia from predatory publishing; health implications of proteomic markers for loneliness; FDA releases draft guidance for use of AI in developing drugs and biologics; protein folding contest continues to evolve; the case for letting kids take risks in play; more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: pumping the brakes on “mirror life” experiments; talking federated registration for health AI; state of play for H5N1 infections in humans; privacy challenges for synthetic data; new access rules for federally funded research to go into effect; learning from longitudinal digital health; who owns the rights to your digital twin; can we build better LLMs with retrieval-augmented generation?; more:
