I’ve been obsessed with the @NEJM CPCs since I was in grad school. Now, with @tabuckley_, it’s surreal to see @NEJM publish the first AI differential diagnosis in the 100+ year history of the series, generated by our AI system Dr. CaBot, alongside the human expert’s.

🚨Missed Opportunities Before a Heart Attack 📊 4.6M US patients • 50% had no documented symptoms • 18% had no traditional risk factors (SMuRFs) • 22% had no physician visits • 63% were not on preventive therapy Younger adults & men least likely to be recognised or

Every time you smoke or vape, you're spending money on a product that harms your health, leading to issues like cancer and heart disease. But you have a choice: you can stop funding that harm and instead, invest in a healthier future. Your body will thank you. 🚭

The white paper from Apple on the Apple Watch hypertension feature indicates solid specificity, as expected. This is at the expense of sensitivity, which generally makes sense. I agree with prioritizing flagging putative hypertension diagnoses where there is greater confidence.

Cervical cancer is diagnosed in over 5000 Pakistani women annually. The HPV vaccine, now offered as part of Pakistan’s vaccination program aims to protect from this deadly cancer. Over 150 countries (including Islamic countries), use this safe and effective vaccine.

The push to eliminate #transfat – a chemical responsible for over 278,000 deaths each year – is within reach. Austria, Norway, Oman and Singapore demonstrate a clear case of how government commitment and action are succeeding in promoting health and saving lives:

Check out my latest article: Intensive Blood Pressure Control: Quantifying the Balance of Benefit and Harm Using Individual Participant Data https://t.co/qGUfdh5FPn via @LinkedIn

PRESAP OUTCOMES 25000 asymptomatic preg women echo screened. 4% prevalence of LVD and SHD portends a 2-6 folds risk of adverse maternofetal outcomes including death. First demonstration that such screening has invaluable predictive power.@GoRedForWomen @escardio @JACCJournals

High maternal mortality in the abnormal echo group😢 #ESCCongress

Look at the numbers ! Women with abnormal echo 60% anemia

https://t.co/04BqHm2h8c

The big split they call the GenAI Divide is simple, 95% of organizations get nothing from GenAI pilots while a tiny 5% extract millions, and the driver is not the model itself but whether the system can learn, remember, and fit the workflow.

Shortly after the end of the last great ice age — 10,000 years ago — 57% of the world’s habitable land was covered by forest. In the millennia since then, a growing demand for agricultural land means we’ve lost one-third of global forests — an area twice the size of the United

📊 New-Onset Diabetes & Pancreatic Cancer · Pancreatic cancer within 3y: 0.85% (~1 in 100) · Risk: ~8× higher than expected · Timing: 56% diagnosed <6 mon after diabetes onset · Higher risk: Diabetes onset after age 69 ? New T2DM - Early warning sign https://t.co/si5BhGKs7X

🚶‍♂️ Benefits of fast walking Walking briskly ≥15 min/day cut all-cause mortality by ~20%, vs only ~4% for >3h/day slow walking Benefits were strongest for heart-related deaths & in those with chronic illness. #PublicHealth #Walking https://t.co/gABa4iLOe8

In #NarrativeMedicine, #narratology examines how a patient’s illness story is shaped, told & understood, viewing illness as a lived narrative, not just a set of #symptoms. Rooted in literary theory, it fosters #empathy, #insight & stronger #patient–#clinician connections.

Bina Shah giving an enlightening talk on narrative medicine at DOM Grand Rounds ⁦@NosheenNasir5⁩ ⁦@MahimMaher⁩

Prof Naseem Salahuddin at DoM Grand Rounds - Her team has been working hard to highlight the problem of dog bites, Rabies and Rabies PEP in Pakistan #impact #rabies

Multiple recent studies, including 3 impressive natural experiments, consistently show a link between Shingles vaccines and reduced risk of dementia. This week a nationwide S Korea study added the reduction of cardiovascular events My summary Table below

Karen Coales giving a fantastic session on #BehavioralActivation ⁦@IMPACT_NIHR⁩ ⁦organized by @drayshaalmas⁩