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Photographs of a laptop and the hands of someone using a smartphone beside the research question: To what extent does the reporting of user input in publications suggest their input is meaningfully shaping the development of digital sexual health tools?

To what extent does the reporting of #user input in publications suggest their input is meaningfully shaping the development of #digital #sexualhealth tools?

Our team of international experts answer this question in our #openacces scoping review: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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The following text presented using bulleted banners: Suggested guidance for #developers of #digitalsexualhealth tools: 1. Involve end users early 2. Engage your target population, including ‘extreme users’ 3. Create opportunities for unexpected input 4. Involve users more than once 5. Close the feedback loop

Our suggested guidance for #developers of #digitalsexualhealth tools...

Thanks to my coauthors Ethan Cardwell (Uni of Melb.), @katha.bsky.social, Paul Flowers of @unistrathclyde.bsky.social, Mark Gilbert of @ubcpublichealth.bsky.social & @ericpfchow.bsky.social.

@digital-health.bsky.social

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What did potential users of an #AI application to identify observable changes in their genital or anal area?

Read more in our #openaccess article in #digitalhealth: doi.org/10.1177/2055...

In brief, participants described a potential pathway to better #sexualhealth promoted by the AiSTi tool…

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Clinical trials test the safety of stem-cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease Transplanting dopamine-releasing neurons into the brain is a promising regenerative therapy for Parkinson’s disease. Two clinical trials show that it is safe, but more evidence is needed to prove its ...

Exciting progress in Parkinson's research! Early clinical trials of stem-cell therapy show promise in being safe for transplanting dopamine-releasing neurons.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#ClinicalTrial #ParkinsonsDisease #StemCellTherapy #MedicalResearch

One of the best decisions I made in my academic career: create a dedicated teaching website: ~20 years of course materials, handouts, tip sheets, videos & more!

FREE to use for teaching with credit!

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Higher heart rate and inactivity: Smartwatch data show early signs of long COVID

Higher heart rate and inactivity: Smartwatch data show early signs of long COVID

www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/hig...

#DigitalHealth #LongCovid #SmartWatch #Wearable #HealthData

Les compléments alimentaires, nécessité d'une consommation éclairée Les compléments alimentaires, concentrés de nutriments, de plantes ou d’autres substances, sont de plus en plus consommés en France. A visée amincissante, anti-stress, revitalisante ou destinés aux sp...

Compléments alimentaires: l’Anses met en garde contre les effets indésirables et potentiellement dangereux

Les compléments alimentaires, nécessité d'une consommation éclairée
www.anses.fr/fr/content/l...

#ANSES #France

Opinion: Without integrating our health data, Canada risks being left behind By engaging in public-private partnerships, other countries are pulling ahead in having faster and better access to cutting-edge treatments

"The vast quantities of data that are produced in health care every day – from doctors’ notes to radiology images – are a nearly untapped resource for innovation and economic growth."

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

#DigitalHealth #HealthData #Interoperability #AI #ClinicalTrial #Canada

"This guideline highlights the close tradeoff between desirable and undesirable effects and the limitations in the current evidence to support a recommendation"
www.gastrojournal.org/article/S001...

#AI #Colonoscopy
#ComputerAidedDetection #CADe
#Colorectal #Cancer

Unsupervised deep learning of electrocardiograms enables scalable human disease profiling - npj Digital Medicine npj Digital Medicine - Unsupervised deep learning of electrocardiograms enables scalable human disease profiling

Unsupervised deep learning of electrocardiograms enables scalable human disease profiling

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#DigitalHealth #ECG #AI #DeepLearning #MedSky

Unlocking the Hidden Potential of Clinical Tools With AI AI reveals hidden patterns in ECGs that human experts can't see, transforming a century-old clinical tool into a powerful predictive system.

"By extracting deeper insights from familiar technologies like #ECGs, chest X-rays, oximeters, and stethoscopes, #AI is turning them into dynamic platforms for #diagnosis, #prediction, and #prevention"

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

#DigitalHealth #ECG

mRNA-based seasonal influenza and SARS-CoV-2 multicomponent vaccine in healthy adults: a phase 1/2 trial - Nature Medicine An interim analysis shows that a new mRNA influenza and SAR-CoV-2 combination vaccine is safe and triggers an encouraging immune response.

New and encouraging results for a combined flu and Covid mRNA vaccine randomized clinical trial in >1,200 healthy adults age 18-79
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A nonsensical threat to:
One of the most important advances in biotechnology of our time, already being used to successfully treat refractory cancers, enable genome editing, develop vaccines for infectious diseases for which there are none, treat autoimmune diseases, and more.

In Trump's America, epidemiology is no longer allowed Is this a feature or a bug?

In Trump's America, epidemiology is no longer allowed

epiellie.substack.com/p/in-trumps-...

#PublicHealth #Epidemilogy

A Deadly Unidentified Disease Has Emerged in the DRC

www.wired.com/story/a-dead...

"More than 50 people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, most within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms. Initial analysis suggests neither Ebola nor Marburg is the cause."

#DRC #Outbreak #MedSky #ID

Causal association between remnant cholesterol level and risk of cardiovascular diseases: a bidirectional two sample mendelian randomization study - PubMed Serum lipids have been associated with an increased risk of various cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in several observational studies, but the causal inference between the remnant cholesterol (RC) level...

Causal association between remnant cholesterol level and risk of cardiovascular diseases: a bidirectional two sample mendelian randomization study

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39511362/

"RC-lowering treatment might be effective in preventing CVDs"

#Cardiovascular #Risk #Remnant #Cholesterol #MedSky

Gene therapy in children with AIPL1-associated severe retinal dystrophy: an open-label, first-in-human interventional study Our findings indicate that young children with AIPL1-related retinal dystrophy benefited substantially from subretinal administration of rAAV8.hRKp.AIPL1, with improved visual acuity and functional vi...

Gene therapy in children with AIPL1-associated severe retinal dystrophy: an open-label, first-in-human interventional study

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#RetinalDystrophy #AIPL1 #GeneTherapy #MedSky

AI ‘scribe’ increases face-to-face time with patients Using an artificial intelligence-powered system to “listen” to patient visits and take notes increased clinician face time with patients and reduced after-hours work.

AI ‘scribe’ increases face-to-face time with patients

www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-re...

#DigitalHealth #Scribe #AI

A machine learning approach to leveraging electronic health records for enhanced omics analysis - Nature Machine Intelligence COMET, an artificial intelligence method that improves the analysis of small medical studies using large clinical databases, has been created. COMET can help develop better artificial intelligence too...

Using multimodal A.I. to more accurately predict a person's risk of cancer (and other conditions) by combining proteomics and electronic health records via @erictopol.bsky.social

#DigitalHealth #AI #MachineLearning

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

People suffering from a lack of healthcare access or quality are the ones that worry the most about the impact of technology on healthcare quality. From this, a lot of hypotheses can be made.

How does the public feel about health technologies and data?

www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...

"perspectives vary across socioeconomic groups, with those in socioeconomic groups D and E notably less positive"

#DigitalHealth #HealthData #NHS

U.S. climate scientists gird for a second Trump administration Trump allies have vowed to squash research and fire adversaries

Trump allies have vowed to squash research and fire adversaries

www.science.org/content/arti...

“You’ve got to be prepared to walk away...But if you’re going to walk away, you have to stand on top of a soapbox and broadcast what happened.”

#Climate #Science #Anti-science

Specific long-term condition combinations play major role in NHS winter pressures - British Heart Foundation - Data Science Centre New research has found that specific combinations of chronic health conditions have a major role in the additional pressures the NHS faces every winter. Winter pressures are prompted by the worsening ...

Long-term condition combinations play major role in NHS winter pressures

"The risk of hospital admission was found to be 11 times higher among those with the quartet of cardiovascular disease, cancer, kidney disease, and type 2 diabetes"

#NHS #Hospitalization #ChronicDiseases

Pioneering journal eLife faces major test after loss of impact factor The open-access title’s bold publishing model has bought long-bubbling conflicts to the fore.

Pioneering journal eLife faces major test after loss of impact factor

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

" a result of eLife’s 2023 introduction of a radical publishing model in which it no longer ‘accepts’ or ‘rejects’ manuscripts, but posts all submissions"

#eLife #PeerReview #Publishing

Race, Ethnicity, and Sleep in US Children This cross-sectional study analyzes differences in sleep levels and sleep variability among racially and ethnically diverse children in the US.

Race, Ethnicity, and Sleep in US Children

"[]sleep data from racially and ethnically minoritized children exhibited shorter sleep duration and later bedtime, as well as greater variability in bedtime and risetime, than their non-Hispanic White peers"

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

#SDOH #Medsky

Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds

Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted

www.science.org/content/arti...

"Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds"

#Covid19 #Hydroxychloroquine #Retraction #Raoult #IHU #MedSky

Virtual lab powered by ‘AI scientists’ super-charges biomedical research Could human–AI collaborations be the future of interdisciplinary studies?

Virtual lab powered by ‘AI scientists’ super-charges biomedical research
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"We still need to verify and validate those hypotheses; this is where it’s important to still have the real-world experiment.”

#DigitalHealth #AI #VirtualLab #LLM #Interdisciplinary

Tissue accumulation of microplastics and potential health risks in human Microplastics have become ubiquitous throughout the environment. Humans constantly ingest and inhale microplastics, increasing concerns about the heal…

Tissue accumulation of microplastics and potential health risks in human
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"PVC was the dominant polymer in all tissues tested. The highest level occurred in the lungs, and females exhibited higher microplastic abundances than males"

#Environment #Medsky

Wuhan lab samples hold no close relatives to virus behind COVID Shi Zhengli, the virologist at centre of COVID lab-leak theory, reveals coronavirus sequences from Wuhan institute.

Wuhan lab samples hold no close relatives to virus behind COVID

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Shi Zhengli, the virologist at centre of COVID lab-leak theory, reveals coronavirus sequences from Wuhan institute."

#Coronaviruses #COVID19 #Medsky

Health-Tech Innovations to Watch in 2025: AI, Personalisation, and Predictive Care - Digital Health Technology News As technology continues to evolve, the potential for digital health will only grow. Moving into 2025, the health-tech sector is poised for transformative growth, driven by breakthroughs in AI, advance...

Health-Tech Innovations to Watch in 2025: AI, Personalisation, and Predictive Care

www.healthtechdigital.com/health-tech-...

#DigitalHealth #AI #PersonalizedCare #PredictiveCare #MentalHealth