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A mixed-methods study using 24 key informant interviews and a curriculum review against global midwifery standards found generally strong pre-service training for childbirth care providers in Nepal but identified intrapartum skill gaps, regulatory delays, and misalignment between training and job opportunities.
In a preregistered experiment involving 500 participants, individuals assigned to report symptoms to a chatbot produced significantly lower-quality reports compared with those assigned to report to a human physician.
An analysis involving 410,198 Reddit posts between 2019 and 2025 and 67,008 users, who mentioned semaglutide or tirzepatide, reveals a spectrum of associated reported side effects extending beyond the commonly known safety profile of these two drugs.
In a randomized preregistered study, 282 participants were asked to judge a hypothetical malpractice case in different conditions of artificial intelligence (AI) assistance to a radiologist. An AI-assisted second-read framework was found to reduce the fraction of participants who would side with the plaintiff.
In a benchmark analysis comprising 5,609 clinical questions developed by 101 community health workers from Rwanda, a panel of 5 general large language models performed better than humans across all metrics.
