3+ week, 4+ day ago   (171+ words) Gabriela Ramos, assistant director-general for the Social and Human Sciences Sector at UNESCO, emphasized that this means ensuring countries are not simply recipients of AI technologies, but active participants in shaping them. “One of the things that I feel is…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1204+ words) The question is no longer whether young people are using AI for mental health care, but the soundness of the advice they receive, health officials say. A recent survey showed that the use of AI chatbots for mental health care…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago   (123+ words) The Healthcare Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School has announced Maria Zou as the 2026-2027 recipient of the Jerome H. Grossman M.D. Graduate Fellowship. For Christian Wiman, ‘dead on the table’ more than once, suffering is no longer the only authentic thing Jill…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (539+ words) Slower ‘face aging’ linked to better survival odds, according to second study of AI tool designed to aid precision care Hugo Aerts (left) and Raymond Mak. Researchers using artificial intelligence to plumb links between biological age and cancer outcomes have…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1206+ words) Physician and AI researcher Adam Rodman says AI can be helpful but has some tips on how, when to use it safely Physicians noticed something unusual in the late 2000s: Patients were coming to appointments armed with sometimes-dubious medical information they…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (791+ words) ‘Until we know what the term really means, we can’t even begin to understand what’s happening.’ John Torous specializes in treating psychosis. So when he started reading about AI psychosis in the news, he expected to see a wave of…...

7+ mon, 2+ day ago   (487+ words) The Harvard team visits a waste recycling plant to understand the thermal comfort challenges the women face. That trajectory has led him to a distinctive way of solving problems in global health — one that looks a lot like design thinking…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (227+ words) A new AI foundation model has been developed that can accurately extract multiple disease risk signals from routine brain MRIs, including: estimating a person’s “brain age”; predicting dementia risk; detecting brain tumor mutations; and predicting survival from brain cancer, according…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (509+ words) New research from the Kempner Institute on the language-processing role of the cerebellum (highlighted above), has potential implications for treating language disorders, as well as for building future artificial intelligence language models. “We’ve identified a specific region of the cerebellum…...

7+ mon, 4+ week ago   (1486+ words) Experts discuss role of AI and other technology in future of mental health care Recent reports suggest we are experiencing a loneliness epidemic and mental health crisis. Suicide rates in the U.S. have risen over the past two decades; a recent…...