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Medicine & Health

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 7-Oct-2025 15:11 ET (7-Oct-2025 19:11 GMT/UTC)

7-Apr-2025

Is AI in medicine playing fair?

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly integrates into health care, a new study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai reveals that all generative AI models may recommend different treatments for the same medical condition based solely on a patient’s socioeconomic and demographic background. Their findings, which are detailed in the April 7, 2025 online issue of Nature Medicine [DOI: 10.1038/s41591-025-03626-6], highlight the importance of early detection and intervention to ensure that AI-driven care is safe, effective, and appropriate for all.

Journal: Nature Medicine

7-Apr-2025

New insights into the risk of developing dementia: Economists contribute to medical research

Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Vaccination to prevent shingles also reduces the risk of developing dementia in later life, according to a research paper published recently in Nature. This conclusion is based on the analysis of data collected in connection with the introduction of a shingles immunization program launched in Wales in 2013. Economists with their special expertise in statistical analyses have made a significant contribution to the corresponding study.

Journal: Nature

7-Apr-2025

Socioeconomic inequalities drive significant gaps in access to mental health care across the European union

European Psychiatric Association
Reports and Proceedings

A new study presented today at the European Psychiatric Association Congress 2025 reveals significant socioeconomic inequalities in unmet needs for mental health care across European Union countries, with financial barriers disproportionately affecting lower-income populations.

7-Apr-2025

Viability of hospital-based emergency care in US faces peril

RAND Corporation
Reports and Proceedings

Hospital-based emergency departments have been at the forefront of responding to the opioid and gun violence epidemics, and played a critical role in providing care throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. A new report finds the viability of hospital-based emergency care in the U.S. is at risk, threatened by issues such as patients with increasingly complex needs and falling payments for physicians.

Funder: Emergency Medicine Policy Institute

6-Apr-2025

Respiratory muscle strength as a predictor of exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Osaka Metropolitan University

An Osaka Metropolitan University medical research team aimed to investigate the effects of respiratory muscle dysfunction on clinical outcomes related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Journal: Respirology

6-Apr-2025

Exposure to air pollution may harm brain health of older adults

University College London
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Long-term exposure to high levels of air pollution may harm the brain health of older adults in England, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

Journal: The Journals of Gerontology Series A