Here are the latest breakthroughs in health & AI (December 29, 2025 week)

🔹 Mental Health Act Information Now Part of London Care Record

Mental Health Act information is now integrated into the London Care Record, enhancing patient care and communication. 🏥📋

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🔹 Uncovering bias and variability in how large language models attribute cardiovascular risk.

Exploring bias in LLMs for cardiovascular risk: men vs. women, Black vs. white. Strong agreement (ICC 0.949) found. 📊❤️

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🔹 Compact vision language models enable efficient and interpretable optical coherence tomography through layer-specific multimodal learning.

Compact vision-language models enhance OCT analysis, achieving 96% accuracy in disease classification. Review of PubMed article highlights significant advancements. 📊👁️

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🔹 AI-assisted sentinel lymph node examination and metastatic detection in breast cancer: the potential of ChatGPT for digital pathology research.

AI boosts breast cancer lymph node diagnosis: 92.2% accuracy, 100% sensitivity, 80.6% specificity. Promising future for pathology! 🩺📊

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🔹 Coronary Artery Calcification: Decoding Mechanisms, Innovations, and Translational Strategies from Bench to Bedside.

Coronary artery calcification (CAC) reveals complex mechanisms and innovations in treatment. Key findings include 98% IVL success and 99.2% AI imaging accuracy. 🫀🔬

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🔹 Mental Health Apps Recognized in Global Women’s Digital Health Challenge

Mental health apps win global award for supporting women during pregnancy and motherhood. 🌍🤱 Solutions aim to improve wellbeing.

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🔹 Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation-Large Language Models for Infective Endocarditis Prophylaxis: Clinical Accuracy and Efficiency.

Evaluating RAG-LLMs for infective endocarditis prophylaxis shows accuracy up to 90% with preprompting. 📊🦷

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🔹 Probiotics, Psychobiotics, Paraprobiotics, and Postbiotics in Gut-Brain Axis Modulation: Multi-Omics and AI-Driven Precision Nutrition for Cognitive Health.

Exploring the Role of Probiotics in Cognitive Health: Insights from Multi-Omics and AI Research 🧠🌱

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🔹 Deciphering RNA modification and post-transcriptional regulation with NetRNApan.

NetRNApan: A Deep Learning Framework for RNA Modification Prediction and Trans-Regulatory Factor Discovery 🧬🔍

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🔹 Highlights from Digital Health in 2025: Key Stories

Digital Health in 2025: Key announcements include NHS England’s abolition and a £10bn tech investment. 📊💻

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🔹 Evaluation of AI chatbots in hearing health: model timeliness and prompt design matter.

AI chatbots enhance hearing health outcomes; prompt design and model timeliness are crucial for effective communication. 🤖👂

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🔹 Aptamers as emerging tools for plant disease management: From biosensing to active modulation.

Aptamers revolutionize plant disease management, enhancing detection and modulation. Key insights from Liu et al. (2025) reveal their potential. 🌱🔬

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🔹 An efficient hybrid artificial intelligence framework for lung cancer classification using CT images.

Hybrid AI model enhances lung cancer detection accuracy using CT images, achieving superior precision and recall metrics. 📈🩻

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🔹 Over 39 Million Users Registered for NHS App

NHS App surpasses 39 million users, facilitating 67.8 million repeat prescriptions in 2025. 📱💊 Enhanced features support patient care.

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🔹 The Future of Antibiotics and Artificial Intelligence: Some Thoughts from Discovery to Bedside.

AI in Antibiotic Discovery & Prescribing: Enhancing Precision Medicine & Stewardship. 🤖💊

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🔹 Concerns Over NHS App Functionality Amidst Holiday Season

Concerns arise about NHS App functionality as it risks becoming overloaded with features. 🎄📱 Balancing usability is crucial for success.

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🔹 The microbial strategies for the management of chemical pesticides: A comprehensive review.

Microbial strategies for pesticide management: Eco-friendly solutions using omics and AI technologies. 🌱🔬

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🔹 Performance of large language models in addressing patient queries on colorectal cancer screening in different languages: An international study across 28 countries.

Large language models excel in multilingual colorectal cancer screening queries, scoring 4.1/5 in accuracy across 28 countries. 🌍📊

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🔹 Generative AI’s Role in Enhancing Mental Health Care

Generative AI may enhance mental health care by personalizing treatment and addressing access barriers. 🧠🤖

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🔹 Specialty-Specific Citation-Enabled AI Clinical Decision Support System for Craniofacial Surgery: Development of CASPER.

CASPER: A groundbreaking AI tool for craniofacial surgery, achieving 0.89 SEM-eval with 8561 articles! 🤖📚

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That’s a wrap for this week’s digest! Stay tuned for more health & AI updates. 🚀💡

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