When people seek medical diagnoses and recommendations from LLMs in the real world, the chatbots perform worse than they do when tested in the lab, and worse than the results that people achieve using search engines.

Summary: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/medical-advice-ai-chatbots-symptoms

Original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-04074-y

#Science #Health #Medical #Diagnoses #AI #LLMs

444 𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘂𝘄𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝘃-𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀, 𝘃𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗼𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗷 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗻 𝗴𝗲𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗷𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻 80 𝗲𝗻 90

Vijftien jaar lang daalde het aantal hiv-diagnoses in Nederland, maar inmiddels wordt het virus dat aids kan veroorzaken jaarlijks bij ongeveer hetzelfde aantal mensen aangetroffen. Vorig jaar kregen 444 mensen te horen dat ze hiv hebben opgelopen.

https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/binnenland/artikel/5539820/hiv-diagnoses-daalt-niet-meer-vooral-stijging-bij-mensen-geboren

#hiv #diagnoses #toename

Tackling resistant #bacteria requires effective antibiotics and fast and reliable #diagnoses. With the support of the SNSF, microbiologists are fishing for Escherichia coli to allow the bacterium to be detected and captured more quickly.🦠🎣

➡️ https://sohub.io/fejx

Hé hé
https://youtu.be/Qup3Y60TmTE

#kaetempest #diagnoses #adhd #tdah

A couple of review of a new book "The Age of Diagnosis" that suggests that the increasing prevalence of once-rare conditions is due to an overdiagnosis epidemic.

https://undark.org/2025/05/09/book-review-age-of-diagnosis/

https://openlettersreview.com/posts/the-age-of-diagnosis-by-suzanne-osullivan

It's not evident that the book's author addresses neglect of base rates in diagnoses, but that is possibly a related issue.

Note that the author evidently has a critical view of the expanding diagnoses of autism and ADHD.

#Medicine #Diagnoses #Health

Ummm.... @actuallyautistic

Here’s the data the #NIH can collect from your medical history for its ‘#autism database’

Story by Julia Musto, 4/23/2025

Excerpt: "While it remains unclear exactly what data will be collected, under the presented platform NIH researchers could have access to:

- Americans’ #prescription information, including the type of medication and how they are prescribed
- Data collected during medical studies in a multitude of areas and from public and private institutions
- Data collected from peoples’ #smartwatches, which can range from heart health to sleep patterns
- #Claims from private insurers that can cover items such as lengthy hospital stays, #screening and testing
- Data from the Centers for #Medicare and #Medicaid Services, which includes #referrals to specialists, enrollment, #diagnoses, and more "

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/here-s-the-data-the-nih-can-collect-from-your-medical-history-for-its-autism-database/ar-AA1DtLpS?ocid=winp2fptaskbarent&cvid=b3b3403a0af048938868e5c93ad98c8f&ei=9

#HIPPA #HIPPAViolations #RFKJr #Fascism #Eugenics #USPo

𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗮𝘁𝗸𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗷𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴

Er is een flinke toename in het aantal diagnoses van prostaatkanker bij mannen. Waar borstkanker nog de meest voorkomende vorm van kanker was, zit prostaatkanker daar nu heel dicht bij. Dat blijkt uit jaarlijkse cijfers van het Integraal Kankercentrum Nederland (IKNL). Oorzaak van...

https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/binnenland/artikel/5492586/prostaatkanker-cijfers

#prostaatkanker #vergrijzing #diagnoses