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｢ It identified an "old left basilar ganglia infarct," referring to a purported part of the brain — "basilar ganglia" — that simply doesn't exist in the human body. Board-certified neurologist Bryan Moore flagged the issue to The Verge, highlighting that Google fixed its blog post about the AI — but failed to revise the research paper itself ｣

https://futurism.com/neoscope/google-healthcare-ai-makes-up-body-part

#google #ai #science #medicine
jbz
@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

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｢ It identified an "old left basilar ganglia infarct," referring to a purported part of the brain — "basilar ganglia" — that simply doesn't exist in the human body. Board-certified neurologist Bryan Moore flagged the issue to The Verge, highlighting that Google fixed its blog post about the AI — but failed to revise the research paper itself ｣

https://futurism.com/neoscope/google-healthcare-ai-makes-up-body-part

#google #ai #science #medicine
The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

A health ministry panel approved a plan to cut the price of Lecanemab, an Alzheimer's drug that Japanese drugmaker Eisai and U.S. industry peer Biogen codeveloped, by 15% in Japan starting Nov. 1. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/07/japan/science-health/japan-alzheimer-drug-price-cut/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #alzheimer039s #medicine #pharmaceuticals#eisai #health
The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Following a successful clinical trial, drugmaker Sumitomo Pharma said it's seeking approval for a Parkinson's disease treatment that transplants stem cells into a patient's brain. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/05/japan/science-health/parkinsons-ips-approval-application/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #sumitomopharma #parkinson039s #health #ips #medicine
petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Update. "Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health on Thursday, in an Appropriations Committee vote that represents a clear rebuke of President Trump’s plan to dramatically reduce the agency’s spending."
https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/nih-budget-senate-committee-replaces-trump-cuts-with-400-million-increase/
( #paywalled)

#DefendResearch#Funding#Medicine#NIH #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics
petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Update. "Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health on Thursday, in an Appropriations Committee vote that represents a clear rebuke of President Trump’s plan to dramatically reduce the agency’s spending."
https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/nih-budget-senate-committee-replaces-trump-cuts-with-400-million-increase/
( #paywalled)

#DefendResearch#Funding#Medicine#NIH #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics
petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp last week

The #NIH is calling for public comments on its plan to cap the use of grant funds to pay #APCs. It seeks comments on five listed options and/or suggestions for other options.
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-138.html

The comment deadline is September 15, 2025. The NIH plans to start implementing its APC-capping policy on January 1, 2026.

#Funding#Medicine #OAintheUSA
ProPublica
@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

A Las Vegas Festival Promised Ways to Cheat Death. Two Attendees Left Fighting for Their Lives.
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Authorities are investigating why two women fell ill at the Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival. They both received peptide injections, an alternative therapy promoted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a way to fight aging and chronic disease.
https://www.propublica.org/article/peptide-injections-raadfest-rfk-jr?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#LasVegas#RFKJr#Health#Aging#Medicine#Nevada
ProPublica
@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

The FDA is cracking down on a generic drugmaker that was the subject of a ProPublica investigation last year, citing problems with safety tests that delayed the recall of a faulty medicine linked to deaths in the U.S.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-letter-glenmark-pharmaceuticals?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #FDA#Medicine#Safety#Drugs#Pharmaceuticals
petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"14 Republican senators urge White House to release delayed #NIH funds."
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/25/britt-leads-letter-urging-trump-administration-to-release-delayed-nih-funds-00476872

PS: The real news here is that these are #Republicans. "Suspension of these appropriated funds — whether formally withheld or functionally delayed — could threaten Americans’ ability to access better treatments and limit our nation’s leadership in biomedical science. It also risks inadvertently severing ongoing NIH-funded research prior to actionable results.”

#DefendResearch#Funding#Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics
petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#AI tools seem to be generating a large swath of low-quality, formulaic biomedical articles drawn from #OpenAccess biomedical databases. For example, since the rise of #LLMs about three years ago, the number of new biomedical articles is about 5k larger than previous moving average would have predicted. The researchers who noticed this trend argue for the "adoption of controlled data-access mechanisms" -- that is, pulling back from #OpenData.

* Primary source (a preprint)
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.07.25331008v1

* Summary (in Nature)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02241-2

PS: The conclusion doesn't follow from the premises. This is like arguing that we should restrict clean air, clean air, and crowbars because criminals take advantage of them to commit crimes.

#Medicine #PaperMills#ScholComm
petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#AI tools seem to be generating a large swath of low-quality, formulaic biomedical articles drawn from #OpenAccess biomedical databases. For example, since the rise of #LLMs about three years ago, the number of new biomedical articles is about 5k larger than previous moving average would have predicted. The researchers who noticed this trend argue for the "adoption of controlled data-access mechanisms" -- that is, pulling back from #OpenData.

* Primary source (a preprint)
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.07.25331008v1

* Summary (in Nature)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02241-2

PS: The conclusion doesn't follow from the premises. This is like arguing that we should restrict clean air, clean air, and crowbars because criminals take advantage of them to commit crimes.

#Medicine #PaperMills#ScholComm
ProPublica
@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to overhaul an obscure but vital program that underpins the nation’s childhood immunization system.

Depending on what he does, the results could be catastrophic.
https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-childhood-vaccines-vicp?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#Health#Vaccines#RFKJr#Children#Medicine#PublicHealth

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petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

"Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump #CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe."
https://www.404media.co/archivists-recreate-pre-trump-cdc-website-are-hosting-it-in-europe/

"A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org, went live Tuesday and is currently being hosted in Europe…Restored CDC isn’t going to have continuous updates on this type of healthcare and disease guidance, but it has brought back all of the critical data that was purged in an easy to use, easy to navigate, and fast website."

Here's the site itself.
https://aboutus.restoredcdc.org/

#Censorship#DefendResearch#Medicine#Preservation#Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics