The largest randomized trial of medical A.I. —Over 100,000 women in Sweden —radiologist + AI vs 2 radiologists, in follow-up —AI added led to 29% more cancer detected, 44% reduced workload, and —Less cancer dx in subsequent 2 years, and, when found, less aggressive thelancet.com/journals/lan...

New pub! For those in the Health AI/LLM space wanting a more thorough description of personal risk of data leaks and HIPAA violations as a provider using these tools we have a analysis now published in JACEP Open. Thanks to @acepnation.bsky.social

Friday Roundup: AI consumes AI, converges on generic representations; AlphaGenome debuts; heritability of human lifespan underestimated; measles spread in SC; gaming or gambling disorder?; disclosure of AI use in journal articles; restoring public trust in science; aihealth.duke.edu/ai-health-ro...

Friday Roundup: going all-in on world models for AI; cows discover tools; challenges to peer review integrity grow; should we get comfortable with imperfect health AI?; too many elderly patients getting meds affecting CNS; questioning AI productivity boosts; more: aihealth.duke.edu/ai-health-ro...

Have a piece from 2025 you are especially proud of? The National Association of Science Writers welcomes entries for our Science in Society Journalism Awards and Excellence in Institutional Writing Awards. Membership not required. Submit by February 1, 2026:

Friday Roundup: AI may be imposing tunnel vision on science; report shows stubborn problems in heart health; taking Health GPT for a test drive; the genetics shaping a dog’s ears; housing, food insecurity among healthcare workers; AI vs clinician deskilling; more: aihealth.duke.edu/ai-health-ro...

A major milestone @ NC Children’s: a $25M transformational gift, the 1st major philanthropic investment supporting our new #behavioralhealth center in Apex. Read more about today’s announcement: duke.is/v/umkg @dukemedschool.bsky.social | @dukechildrens.bsky.social | @unchealth.bsky.social (1/2)

Monica Bertagnolli — former NIH director and surgical oncologist — has been elected President of the National Academy of Medicine. Bertagnolli has championed efforts to advance #HealthInnovation and #HealthEquity, and will be the first woman to lead the NAM. Learn more: https://ow.ly/vPhb50XXuw4

After studying the world’s most active communities, Duke evolutionary anthropologist Herman Pontzer, PhD, found something shocking: we all burn about the same amount of calories. #AcademicSky #MedSky https://medschool.duke.edu/stories/why-exercise-doesnt-burn-more-calories-and-why-thats-not-point

My department, Duke Neurobiology, is searching for a new chair. Ad below. Come work with me, @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social @ennatsew.bsky.social @jorggrandl.bsky.social @jnklab.bsky.social @sbilbo.bsky.social @neurocircuits.bsky.social and many other amazing folks! @dukemedschool.bsky.social

Dr. Nicholas Christakis (@nachristakis.bsky.social ) will be joining us as a Keynote Speaker at the Conference on Society-Centered AI 2026 Feb 12-14th! Learn more and Register here: sites.duke.edu/scai/

Friday Roundup: pinball-like LLM parameters; off-target vaccine benefits; humility & curiosity for LLMs; OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Health; international alternatives to PubMed; relationship between flu & heart attack; LLMs still at risk from prompt injection; more: aihealth.duke.edu/ai-health-ro...

Friday Roundup: choosing measures for AI performance; problems with AI simulation in behavioral studies; AI ethics text full of bogus citations; testing chatbots on subspecialty boards; looking back on computer science in 2025; ML spots liver disease in EKGs; more: aihealth.duke.edu/ai-health-ro...

Our guidance regarding performance measures for medical AI models is finally out! - Stop bashing AUROC, although it does not settle things - Calibration and clinical utility are key - Show risk distributions - Classification statistics (e.g. F1) are improper www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Friday Roundup: ambient scribing vs clinician burnout; merits of explainable AI in healthcare; PFAS & infant health; tattoos & immune response; problematic data leads to scores of retractions; AI for manuscript review; autoencoders for high-dimensional data; more: aihealth.duke.edu/ai-health-ro...

Two DIBS Network Faculty elected to National Academy of Inventors! Dr. Adam Wax: methods for imaging retinas & tracking biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Arovind Asokan: viral methods for gene therapies incl. for the brain. @dukeubme.bsky.social @dukesurgery.bsky.social tinyurl.com/DIIBS-NAI

Friday Roundup: considering healthcare AI bubbles; Cochrane reports on HPV vaccine & cervical cancer; AI slop crops up in autism paper; academic libraries in the AI age; lonely people turn to chatbots; AI-written peer reviews & papers show up at conference; more: aihealth.duke.edu/ai-health-ro...

Institute Director Mark McClellan and Research Director Christina Silcox have released a statement on the new CMS ACCESS Model, which aims to improve the health of people with chronic disease and covered by Traditional Medicare, through technology-supported care. Read our statement: duke.is/j/tqrq

What started as a fight against one virus led to breakthroughs in immunology, cancer treatment, hepatitis care, pandemic preparedness, and more. Read about 10 major advances that owe their roots to HIV research ➡️ https://medschool.duke.edu/news/10-groundbreaking-advances-grew-out-hiv-research

Friday Roundup: practice licenses for AI?; drones deliver defibrillators fast; continuous evaluation of predictive models; light pollution messes with ecosystem metabolism; AI competencies for docs; cancer vax trial shows encouraging results 2 decades later; more: aihealth.duke.edu/ai-health-ro...

Friday Roundup: puzzle-solving illuminates new paths for AI; link between Epstein-Barr & lupus; frameworks for reporting GAI research; new chip extends quantum computing; creative potential of AI; updated Turing Test spots key differences between human, AI; more: aihealth.duke.edu/ai-health-ro...

NEW PAPER: "Reporting guidelines for studies involving generative artificial intelligence applications: what do I use, and when?" --> www.nature.com/articles/s41... #HealthTech #ClinicalAI #MachineLearning #MedAI #AIinMedicine #TransparentAI #HealthInnovation #GenAI

Friday Roundup: offloading moral agency to chatbots; benefits & limits of RAG-based LLMs for medical teaching; tiny tyrannosaur confirmed; bogus AI-penned letters swamping journals; LLMs for data extraction; AIs struggle to parse out-of-sequence comic strips; more: aihealth.duke.edu/ai-health-ro...

Friday Roundup: using LLMs for research changes quality of downstream product; how activity occurs modulates exercise benefits; script sleuths for bogus citations; study finds bots distort news; humans and LLMs apply different priorities when asked to judge; more: aihealth.duke.edu/ai-health-ro...

A recent study led by DCRI’s Jennifer Rymer suggests one long-held DST belief, that these time jumps can lead to an uptick in myocardial infarctions, may not be the case. Read more: www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Duke research saves lives. As funding landscapes shift, the impact of Duke’s research remains clear: it’s personal, it’s powerful, and it’s essential. 🔗 Read how Duke research continues to make a difference: https://today.duke.edu/2025/10/saved-duke-research #AcademicSky #MedSky

Friday Roundup: mimicking brain modularity for better AI models; bumblebee empathy; “fragility” of GPT-5 output in medicine; mRNA COVID vaccines boost immune response vs cancers; human vs LLM in diagnosis; evaluating memorization risk in EHR-trained models; more: aihealth.duke.edu/ai-health-ro...

Friday Roundup: overemphasis on chatbots?; new pathway for pain relief; state of play in medical AI; CDC cuts hit NHANES, ethics review; bioinformatics expertise still relevant in AI age; cancer vaccines show promise; building better AI models for chemistry; more: aihealth.duke.edu/ai-health-ro...

New from JAMA: “AI, Health, and Health Care Today and Tomorrow: The JAMA Summit Report on Artificial Intelligence.” insights from leading clinicians, researchers, technologists, and policy experts on how to safely and effectively integrate AI into clinical practice jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Great to join the 2nd Annual Duke Summit on AI for Health Innovation, hosted by @dukeaihealth.bsky.social, the Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation, and DCRI. Exciting discussions on AI, digital twins, and the future of healthcare. #AIforHealth #DigitalHealth #HPC #Innovation

Friday Roundup: probing inner workings of LLMs; AI tackles biosecurity; librarians vs tide of AI slop; organics found in spray from Enceladus; AI sycophants erode prosocial behavior; childhood stress affects adult health; agentic AI with few training samples; more: aihealth.duke.edu/ai-health-ro...

Friday Roundup: machine learning parses sleep data; fat-tailed lemurs point humanity’s way to stars; AI system delivers health predictions for decades into future; using LLMs as stand-ins for humans in survey research; mapping the spread of measles in 2025; more: aihealth.duke.edu/ai-health-ro...

Smart story from @katiepalmer.bsky.social about UpToDate getting its lunch eaten on AI for physician reference, but also what its AI launch says about the problems it, OpenEvidence, and Doximity face: 🖥️🩺 www.statnews.com/2025/10/02/u...

What does a medical “first” really mean? A baby getting the chance to grow up. An adult w/ heart failure getting more time w/ family. Hope, when there were no options. This is research that saves lives & shapes the future of medicine. @dukemedschool.bsky.social | @duke-university.bsky.social

We're delighted to share that Duke Psychiatry's Dr. Jonathan Posner was among 4 Duke faculty members selected as Provost Faculty Fellows! The program introduces fellows to key leadership roles/responsibilities & strategic focus areas. 🌟 https://ow.ly/fn2250X4qGi Duke University School of Medicine

More than 260 people screened this month—including 180+ this weekend at our Community Health Screening event! We’re grateful to every volunteer, partner, and community member who helped make this possible. This is community care in action. 💙 #CommunityHealthDuke

One in every 212 flights involved a medical emergency, according to an international study of in-flight medical events from Jan. 2022 to Dec. 2023, led by Duke Health; 8% of patients were taken to the hospital after landing and 1.7% of the medical events were serious enough to divert the plane.

A new study from Duke, led by Jonathan Campbell, PhD, reveals that pancreatic alpha cells do more than produce glucagon — they also generate GLP-1, a hormone that boosts insulin and regulates blood sugar. 🔗 Read more: https://medschool.duke.edu/news/alpha-cells-moonlight-secret-glp-1-factories

Friday Roundup: promise & peril from medical chatbots; AI and magical thinking; new class of antibiotics shows promise; delegating to AI may boost dishonesty; dynamics of human-AI teamwork; why cats graze; survey reflects public jitters about AI’s prospects; more: aihealth.duke.edu/ai-health-ro...

A research team co-led by Duke Psychiatry's Dr. Jonathan Posner and Dr. Matthew Engelhard of Duke Biostatistics and Bioinformatics has received a grant from NIMH to expand an artificial intelligence tool that detects early signs of #MentalHealth issues in adolescents. ow.ly/LfNZ50X0OmC #AI

Apply to the 2026-2027 Morris Fishbein Fellowship in Medical Editing for the chance to develop your skills in all facets of editing and publishing a major medical journal. This is an in-person position located in Chicago. Applicants must hold an MD or DO degree to be eligible. ja.ma/4pvWYUm

Friday Roundup: why LLMs hallucinate; origins of small-cell lung cancer; lightweight language model overcomes resource bottlenecks; modeling scientific risk-taking; worries that AI erodes critical thinking; AI governance lessons from the world of genetics; more: aihealth.duke.edu/ai-health-ro...

NEW PAPER "The STARD-AI reporting guideline for diagnostic accuracy studies using #artificialintelligence" --> www.nature.com/articles/s41... #machinelearning #MLsky #statssky #digitalhealth #transparency

Friday Roundup: LLMs extract safety data from product labels; daylight time maybe not that bad; limits of vibe coding; getting a handle on Alzheimer’s heritability; AI impersonates docs; calculating ROI for COVID vax; Medicare Advantage & hospital bottlenecks; more: aihealth.duke.edu/ai-health-ro...

@i-cubed.bsky.social, the DCRI’s center for clinical research innovation, is excited to introduce Luminate Insights, an education and training platform designed to enhance the capacity and confidence of clinical research professionals across the globe: icubedcenter.org/i-cubed-laun...

A new Duke University study challenges the long-held belief that daylight saving time increases heart attack risk. 🔗 Read more: https://medschool.duke.edu/news/daylight-saving-time-may-not-trigger-heart-attacks-after-all-study-finds #AcademicSky #MedSky

Read more about this analysis from researchers at the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore and Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development in the Journal of Medical Interest Research AI: ai.jmir.org/2025/1/e62985/

Friday Roundup: AI video analysis illuminates neuromuscular diseases; authors may be underreporting AI use; different angle on AI deskilling; as thumbs get bigger, so do brains; pediatric cancer network stops enrollment; health effects of ultraprocessed food; more: aihealth.duke.edu/ai-health-ro...

Friday Roundup: explainable health AI; light pollution, air pollution & cardiorenal health; model for flu vax development; can genAI cope with retracted articles?; mapping microscopic TB “cities”; new approach for brain-computer interfaces; AI & peer review; more: aihealth.duke.edu/ai-health-ro...

Dan Ma, PhD, has brought magnetic resonance fingerprinting to Duke -- a faster and more precise alternative to traditional MRIs that delivers reproducible, quantitative data from a single scan. 🔗: https://medschool.duke.edu/stories/mission-faster-better-mri #AcademicSky #MedSky #DukeNeurosurgery