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.

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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