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By generating synthetic image samples specific to underrepresented groups, diffusion models help medical image classifiers to achieve greater fairness metrics across a variety of medical disciplines and demographic attributes.
In a large multinational cohort study, maternal, gestational or pregestational diabetes was associated with only a small-to-moderate risk of ADHD in offspring, contrary to previous estimates that showed stronger effect sizes, attributing the differences in findings to confounding by shared genetic and familial factors.
The analysis of continuous glucose monitoring measurements from a large cohort of nondiabetic individuals uncovered large inter- and intraindividual variabilities, with potential implications for current diagnostic cutoffs for diabetes diagnosis and several cardiometabolic clinical measures.
Treatment of patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma with a personalized DNA vaccine in combination with anti-PD-1 therapy was safe and led to encouraging clinical efficacy, with immunological analyses confirming the induction of tumor antigen-specific T cell responses.
In an interim analysis of a phase 1/2 trial, a heterologous prime boost vaccine comprised of a chimpanzee adenovirus and self-amplifying mRNA that encodes neoantigens derived from common oncogenic driver mutations in combination with immune checkpoint blockade was safe and elicited neoantigen-specific T cell responses in patients with advanced solid tumors.
In an updated systematic review and meta-analysis, fixed-dose combination therapy using a polypill with at least one blood pressure-lowering drug and one lipid-lowering drug was found to reduce both incident cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality.
In a prospective cohort of Chinese participants aged 65 years and older, heatwaves doubled the risk of mortality, especially in adults with functional impairments and dependency on daily living activities.
In a phase Ib trial, neoadjuvant nivolumab or nivolumab/relatlimab prior to chemoradiotherapy were well tolerated and liquid biopsy analyses show that undetectable ctDNA was associated with longer survival.
Developed using diverse sources of histopathology images, biomedical text and over 1.17 million image–caption pairs, evaluated on a suite of 14 diverse benchmarks, a visual-language foundation model achieves state-of-the-art performance on a wide array of clinically relevant pathology tasks.
Pretrained using over 100,000 diagnostic histopathological slides across 20 major tissue types, a self-supervised model is shown to outperform existing baselines across various clinically relevant computational pathology tasks.
A large-scale study examined the heterogeneous effects of artificial intelligence (AI) assistance on 140 radiologists across 15 chest X-ray diagnostic tasks and found that conventional experience-based factors, such as years of experience, subspecialty and familiarity with AI tools, fail to reliably predict the impact of AI assistance.
The PRODIGITAL-D trial in adults aged 60+ years from socioeconomically deprived areas of Brazil showed that a 6-week self-help mobile messaging psychosocial intervention was effective in improving depression recovery at 3 months compared to a single message control intervention.
In an interim analysis of an ongoing phase 1 trial of CAR T cells targeting EGFR and IL13Ra2 in patients with multifocal, recurrent glioblastoma, intrathecal delivery is feasible and well tolerated, with some reductions seen in tumor size.
Analyzing clinical records from a cohort of 3,042 donors in the Netherlands Brain Bank, natural language processing models unveil the symptomatology and potential misdiagnoses of a broad range of neurodegenerative disorders.
Sex-stratified genome-wide association studies identify loci showing sex-specific effects on blood pressure, allowing for the development of sex-specific polygenic risk scores for blood pressure traits.
Building on a pre-existing pooling pipeline for the efficient detection of SARS-CoV-2, the results of a large-scale implementation study show the feasibility and benefits of saliva sample pooling to enhance neonatal screening for congenital cytomegalovirus.
An observational study reports the joint effects of polygenic risk scores and radiation treatment exposure with a subsequent increased risk of multiple solid cancers in two large cohorts of survivors of childhood cancer.
In a large trial of patients with recurrent high-grade gliomas, IL-13Rα2-targeting CAR-T cells were feasible to manufacture and well tolerated when delivered via intratumoral and/or intraventricular routes.
Clonal hematopoiesis, which increases with age and is implicated in a variety of age-related diseases, is shown here to be associated with a greater risk of acute kidney injury and worse outcome following injury, as demonstrated using multiple patient cohorts, Mendelian randomization analysis and mechanistic studies in mouse disease models.
A multi-ancestry analysis in large cohorts of patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) identified 12 disease genetic clusters with distinct cardiometabolic trait associations, including two lipodystrophy-related clusters that could provide insights on the increased T2D susceptibility in East Asian ancestries at a given body mass index level.