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 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protecting academia from predatory publishing; health implications of proteomic markers for loneliness; FDA releases draft guidance for use of AI in developing drugs and biologics; protein folding contest continues to evolve; the case for letting kids take risks in play; more: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: