Can AI help make medical records less biased? New study suggests yes—with caveats
Large language models can identify judgmental language in clinical notes, but the settings play a major role in accuracy.
Jul 13, 2026
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Long COVID patients are told symptoms are in their head—here's how to change the narrative
Between us, we bring two perspectives to persistent illness: personal experience of long COVID and clinical and research experience in chronic illness rehabilitation.
Jul 13, 2026
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Neck pain at work may stem from poor sleep, stress and high workload—not just bad posture, AI study shows
Artificial intelligence could predict an individual office worker's risk of musculoskeletal injury in specific body parts, a study by QUT health and data scientists has found.
Jul 13, 2026
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Geriatric patients can independently manage appropriately-designed digital nutrition apps, study shows
In an era where digital health applications are booming, older adults, particularly those facing the physical and psychological toll of post-acute rehabilitation, are frequently left out of the equation because of assumptions ...
Jul 9, 2026
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Societies combine to issue recommendations on use of incretin drugs in obesity therapy
Obesity and dietitian societies have joined forces to issue a new consensus statement on recommendations surrounding the use of obesity drugs for weight loss treatment. The statement, which is published in The Lancet Diabetes ...
Jul 9, 2026
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Investigating AI-based personal training
A feature News and Perspectives story on AI fitness advice has been published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.. In "Should AI Be Your Personal Trainer?", JMIR Correspondent Anna Zucker covers the growing use of ...
Jul 9, 2026
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Building trust: Relationship between nurses and parents plays vital role in caring for medically fragile infants
Trust between nurses and parents plays a central role in effectively caring for medically fragile infants (MFIs) and supports parental well-being and infant development, according to a new study led by Lyndsay MacKay, an ...
Jul 9, 2026
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Families report positive outcomes from fully virtual, BCBA-delivered, focused autism support program
A new study, conducted by AnswersNow in partnership with the Clemson Center for Behavior Analysis (Clemson University) and published in JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting, finds that fully virtual applied behavior analysis (ABA) ...
Jul 8, 2026
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Nursing scholar calls for greater recognition of nurses' 'dual expertise'
In a letter published in The Lancet, Penn Nursing's Kathryn Connell, Ph.D., RN, CCRN, argues that nursing is a profession where "dual expertise" is widespread yet structurally invisible. Connell calls for urgent systemic ...
Jul 8, 2026
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New model reveals how disability caregiving reshapes parents' lives over decades
Researchers are sounding the alarm on the long-term impact of caring for children with developmental disabilities in the absence of proper societal supports across the life course. A new conceptual study, published in the ...
Jul 8, 2026
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