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Conversational diagnostic artificial intelligence in ambulatory primary care: a prospective feasibility study.

A patient-facing AI handled real urgent primary care conversations safely in this small feasibility study, but it is not yet evidence to replace clinician triage.

General Medicine · Lancet · 8 Oct

Sickle cell haemoglobin status shapes malaria parasite genotype in asymptomatic infections.

HbAS and HbAA had similar rates of asymptomatic infection, but HbS genotype was strongly associated with parasites carrying Pfsa+ alleles at Pfsa1 and Pfsa3 loci.

General Medicine · Nature microbiology · 8 Oct

Incidence and mortality of invasive fungal infections among patients admitted in intensive care units in India: findings from a multicentric registry-based study (2023-25).

Incidence was 14/1000 admissions (95% CI 13.5-14.6) with all-cause in-hospital mortality of 53.6% (95% CI 51.7-55.6%). Invasive candidiasis was commonest (57.1%), then aspergillosis (37%); Candida auris showed 61.7% fluconazole resistance.

General Medicine · Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia · 8 Oct

Healthleap banks $38M for AI screening platform that catches undiagnosed conditions

An EHR-integrated tool that flags malnutrition automatically could catch cases you miss on admission, though it is not yet validated in Indian settings.

General Medicine · Fierce Healthcare · 7 Oct

Suki launches ‘Ask’ feature for clinical decision support driven by Wolters Kluwer UpToDate AI API

Ambient scribes now answer clinical questions from UpToDate inside the note, so verify AI-suggested management before acting on it.

General Medicine · Fierce Healthcare · 7 Oct

After ICE raids, hospitals saw fewer ED visits, more admissions among foreign-born: study

Foreign-born patients in your catchment may be delaying ED care until sicker, so expect later presentations and higher-acuity admissions.

General Medicine · Fierce Healthcare · 7 Oct

Advance Care Planning for Black and White Older Adults With Serious Illness: The EQUAL ACP Randomized Trial.

Facilitated ACP outperformed self-guided materials in older adults with serious illness, so offer structured conversations rather than handing out forms alone.

General Medicine · JAMA · 7 Oct

Teladoc Health unveils new AI capabilities within Solo platform for hospitals

If your hospital uses Teladoc's Solo platform, these AI tools may surface deteriorating-patient signals earlier, but no outcome data is yet published.

General Medicine · Fierce Healthcare · 6 Oct

Lawmakers press CMS to roll back proposed restrictions on remote patient monitoring

If CMS restricts who can staff remote monitoring, your chronic-care patients on home devices may lose Medicare-covered follow-up unless the rule is rolled back.

General Medicine · Fierce Healthcare · 6 Oct

Women account for over 57% of online medical consultations through eSanjeevani

Teleconsultation is now the main route to care for many of your women patients, so plan follow-up and referral around eSanjeevani rather than assuming clinic visits.

General Medicine · ETHealthworld · 6 Oct

Opinion: I’m a doctor. Here’s what I want the public to know about AI tools and health care costs

AI scribes that maximise documentation detail can raise coded complexity and patient bills, so review what your templates and coding prompts actually generate.

General Medicine · STAT News — Health Tech · 6 Oct

Siberia's 'mysterious illness': All about bubonic plague, how it spreads and whether the world should worry

Plague is antibiotic-treatable, but pneumonic spread is person-to-person and rapidly fatal; ask about travel and exposure history in febrile patients.

General Medicine · ETHealthworld · 6 Oct

Effect of Fluvoxamine and Metformin for Fatigue in Patients With Long COVID : An Adaptive Randomized Trial.

In this adaptive trial of 399 adults, neither fluvoxamine nor metformin relieved long COVID fatigue, so avoid prescribing them for this indication.

General Medicine · Annals · 6 Oct

Utah expands healthcare AI sandbox with August AI, Nolla Health pilots, adds third-party evaluators

Utah is testing AI-run prescription renewals and triage under physician oversight, a regulatory model that could reach Indian teleconsultation practice.

General Medicine · Fierce Healthcare · 5 Oct

STAT+: Utah plows ahead with more health AI pilots for prescriptions, women’s health

Utah will let AI assess patients and issue prescriptions without prior clinician review, so autonomous prescribing may reach your patients before Indian regulators set rules.

General Medicine · STAT News — Health Tech · 5 Oct

Global and regional reference curves for pain across the lifespan in 6.1 million individuals in 118 countries.

Gives you age- and region-specific pain norms, so an older patient's reported pain can be judged against their peers rather than dismissed as expected ageing.

General Medicine · Nature Medicine · 5 Oct

Insurance companies want policyholders to pay 10% of health claims

If adopted, your insured patients will owe 10% of every hospital bill, including accident and cashless admissions, so counsel them on out-of-pocket costs before discharge.

General Medicine · ETHealthworld · 4 Oct

The digital determinants of health: a new era for global public health.

Digital access now shapes who gets care and who is harmed; consider your patients' connectivity, literacy and data exposure as clinical variables, not background noise.

General Medicine · Lancet · 4 Oct

How Optum, Owensboro Health teamed up to build a virtual nursing program

Virtual nurse pairing can offload documentation and admissions from bedside staff, a staffing model worth watching if your ward is short on nurses.

General Medicine · Fierce Healthcare · 2 Oct

RFK Jr.'s AI claims spark physician backlash as debate over medical AI intensifies

A US health secretary claiming AI outdoes any doctor fuels patient expectations you will have to address in clinic, and sharpens the case for evidence on where these tools actually help.

General Medicine · Fierce Healthcare · 2 Oct

AKASA debuts autonomous AI platform for inpatient medical coding and clinical documentation

If coding and documentation integrity are automated, your inpatient notes may be reviewed by AI rather than coders, changing query patterns and audit risk.

General Medicine · Fierce Healthcare · 2 Oct

Hospitals' body calls for balanced pricing of drugs, consumables; opposes uniform 16% margin

A flat 16% margin on drugs and consumables could change what your hospital stocks and bills, so watch how this pricing policy lands.

General Medicine · ETHealthworld · 1 Oct

Opinion: Claude analyzed my genome in 30 minutes. Now we need standards for the results

AI can now interpret a whole genome in minutes, so you will soon face patient-carried genomic reports with no validated standard behind them.

General Medicine · STAT News — Health Tech · 1 Oct

420 million screened for hypertension, diabetes under central scheme: Nadda

Population-level NCD screening at this scale means more newly diagnosed hypertension and diabetes patients will present to you for confirmation and treatment.

General Medicine · ETHealthworld · 1 Oct

Association Between Consulting Multiple Healthcare Facilities and Medication Burden Among Older Outpatients

Positive correlation between number of facilities consulted and total prescribed medications (Spearman's coefficient 0.39, P < 0.0001), remaining significant after adjustment for age.

General Medicine · Cureus · 1 Oct

CMS finalizes model that aims to bring most-favored nation pricing to Part B

US Medicare Part B will pay no more than the lowest price other wealthy countries pay for physician-administered drugs, which may shift what your patients can access.

General Medicine · Fierce Healthcare · 30 Sept

The Verification Gap: Artificial Intelligence Adoption, Hallucination Awareness, and Verification Practices Among Medical Trainees and Professionals in Pakistan

Most trainees using AI tools cannot reliably spot fabricated references, so verify every AI-generated citation and dose before it reaches a patient or a paper.

General Medicine · Cureus · 30 Sept

Hospital stocks fall as SC questions drug mark-ups

If the court mandates cost-plus drug billing, your hospital's pharmacy margins and patient billing practices will need restructuring.

General Medicine · ETHealthworld · 30 Sept

Procalcitonin and Presepsin in Gram-Negative Sepsis: Diagnostic, Prognostic, and Antimicrobial Stewardship Perspectives

PCT and presepsin may flag Gram-negative sepsis earlier and guide antibiotic de-escalation, but neither reliably replaces cultures for choosing therapy.

General Medicine · Cureus · 30 Sept

Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients With Fibrosing Interstitial Lung Diseases: A Study Using the King’s Brief Interstitial Lung Disease (K-BILD) Questionnaire

K-BILD scores track how breathlessness and cough erode daily life in fibrosing ILD, giving you a validated patient-reported measure beyond spirometry for clinic follow-up.

General Medicine · Cureus · 30 Sept

Pityriasis Lichenoides Chronica: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenge

PLC mimics eczema and psoriasis but needs biopsy and staged therapy; recognising the spectrum avoids years of misdiagnosed topical steroid use.

General Medicine · Cureus · 30 Sept

An Evolving Clinical Phenotype Preceding the Diagnosis of Eosinophilic Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis: A Case Report

In adults with late-onset asthma and rising eosinophils, consider EGPA before the vasculitic phase, since the full syndrome may take months to declare itself.

General Medicine · Cureus · 30 Sept

Innate immune sensing of Plasmodium sporozoite cell traversal drives protective T cell responses.

Explains how attenuated sporozoite malaria vaccines trigger innate sensing, informing which candidates may produce durable T cell protection in endemic settings.

General Medicine · Nature microbiology · 30 Sept

Host cell traversal by Plasmodium parasites drives sterilizing T cell-mediated immunity following immunization.

Explains why whole-sporozoite malaria vaccines induce sterile protection, guiding which vaccine platforms may eventually reach travellers and endemic-region patients.

General Medicine · Nature microbiology · 30 Sept

Medical Applications of Graph Convolutional Networks Using Electronic Health Records: A Scoping Review

GCNs model relationships across EHR data to sharpen diagnosis and risk prediction, but this review finds most models remain unvalidated in real clinical workflows.

General Medicine · Cureus · 30 Sept

FDA Investigation Leads to Charges Against Two Indian Nationals Involved in Transnational Counterfeit Drug Distribution Scheme

Counterfeit medicines reaching Indian patients through online and grey channels are a real prescribing risk; verify sourcing and warn patients against unregulated purchases.

General Medicine · FDA — Press Announcements · 30 Sept

Physician Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding Viral Exanthem Diagnosis and Mandatory Reporting Requirements in Major Metropolitan Regions of Florida, USA

Most clinicians miss mandatory reporting steps for measles and rubella; knowing your local reporting pathway matters more as outbreaks return.

General Medicine · Cureus · 29 Sept

Molecular and Conventional Tests in Onychomycosis: A Systematic Review of Paired Diagnostic Discordance and Clinical Interpretation

PCR and culture disagree often in onychomycosis, so a negative culture alone should not rule out fungal nail infection before starting or stopping treatment.

General Medicine · Cureus · 29 Sept

Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification as an Alternative to Conventional Smear Microscopy in Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Against the composite reference standard, TB-LAMP showed sensitivity 74.36% and specificity 91.80%, and identified cases missed by conventional techniques.

General Medicine · Cureus · 29 Sept

H1N1 dominates flu strains in India, accounts for 3 out of 4 cases: WHO

With H1N1 causing three of four flu cases, test and treat influenza early in febrile patients rather than presuming dengue or COVID.

General Medicine · ETHealthworld · 29 Sept