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Can Patients Trust ChatGPT for Urological Advice?

Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are widely used for public health information retrieval. Prior urological studies have mainly validated ChatGPT performance based on AUA and EAU guidelines, while evidence aligned with CUA guidelines remains scarce. This study by Wyatt MacNevin’s team from Dalhousie University evaluated the appropriateness and reliability of ChatGPT-4.0 responses to common patient-oriented urological questions using CUA guidelines as the benchmark.

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FDA Seeks Public Feedback to Inform Regulatory Approach for Generative AI-Enabled Medical Devices

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a discussion paper on considerations for the regulation of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)-enabled medical devices, seeking feedback from interested parties on risk assessment, premarket evaluation, postmarket monitoring, and other topics relevant to the regulation of GenAI-enabled medical devices.

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Deep Learning Refines How Bionic Eyes Communicate with the Brain

Researchers from three institutions, including UC Santa Barbara, have demonstrated that artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to make future visual prostheses, like a bionic eye, more precise, predictable and responsive to an individual user.

UCSB associate professor of computer science Michael Beyeler and his colleagues used a deep-learning model to design patterns of electrical stimulation for electrodes temporarily implanted in the visual cortex

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Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust avoids an Estimated 1,300 Hospital Admissions through Proactive Home Monitoring

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) has avoided an estimated 1,300 hospital admissions over the past 12 months by using proactive home monitoring to identify early signs of deterioration before some of its most vulnerable patients reach crisis point.

The results come as the NHS accelerates its shift towards neighbourhood health services, with the Government's recently published NHS 10 Year Health Plan placing prevention,

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Philips Selected for ARPA-H Program to Advance AI-Enabled Robotic Stroke Care

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced it has received an up to US$33.7 million award under the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)) Autonomous Interventions and Robotics (AIR) program, led by Dr. Ileana Hancu, to advance AI-enabled robotic procedure automation for stroke care.

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Dylan Roberts Joins the Highland Advisory Board

The Highland advisory board has welcomed a new member - Dylan Roberts, a digital leader with almost 40 years’ experience of working in and across local government, health, and public services.

Dylan brings a wealth of experience to the board, which debates issues in digital health, advises the specialist health tech agency and its clients, and informs the Elevate series of showcase events, which take curated digital and med tech direct to trusts.

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New AI Models Still Reproduce Racial and Gender Stereotypes in Medicine

Flinders University researchers have evaluated two next-generation reasoning Large Language Models (LLMs) - o3-mini and DeepSeek-R1 - and found that when asked to describe fictional patients with common medical conditions, these models frequently reproduced racial and gender stereotypes, indicating that advancements in AI reasoning do not inherently improve representational fairness.

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AI Tool Detects Hard-to-Identify Heart Dysfunction from Standard ECGs

A new study led by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine has found that artificial intelligence (AI) can help clinicians identify signs of heart failure, including a type that is often missed in routine care. The AI model also performed well using data from a single ECG lead similar to the measurement captured by some wearable devices.

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Finding new osteoarthritis medicines via AI and genetics

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a chronic, painful joint disease and a leading cause of disability. Despite its prevalence, therapies for osteoarthritis are limited and focus on symptom management. Now, researchers are combining genetic studies of Utah families with AI-based molecular biology tools to find new medications that may ultimately help treat OA at its source.

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AI Designs a Novel E. Coli Killer

In science, the suffix “phage” means to devour. Thus, the name bacteriophage might conjure images of tiny creatures that “eat” bacteria. While that conception isn’t 100 percent scientifically accurate, bacteriophages are lethal bacteria killers nonetheless, and scientists are excited about engineering phage DNA as a path to new antibiotics.

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