Brian Wong

🇨🇦 Hematopathologist. Sci-fi fan and election enthusiast. T/RT ≠ medical advice/endorsement.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Yet another study shows a 24% reduced risk of dementia after the Shingles vaccine. This one in over 500,000 participants with a recent skilled nursing facility stay, adding to 4 huge natural experiments in 4 countries (US, Canada, Wales, and Australia)
https://t.co/TmYqwTB7IT @AnnalsofIM

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

There has been a push to use OpenEvidence AI for doctors. But this paper suggests general models are much better: “Frontier LLMs outperformed clinical AI tools in all three evaluations. Clinical AI tools performed comparably to auto-enabled Google Search AI Overview on the RCQ.”

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

For medical information, general AI frontier models (Google, OpenAI, Anthropic) outperformed specialized @EvidenceOpen and @UpToDate as assessed by 12 US clinicians, randomized and blinded to which model and extensive testing/benchmarks. This was not anticipated. @NatureMedicine
https://t.co/KCH1ADfQWz

[@Hemepathguy @hemepathguy]

End stage carcinoma. Peripheral blood. Carcinocythemia.

[Sherpa @LLMSherpa]

Folks won't shut up about Fable 5, but Gemini is out here SAVING LIVES.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Need the Pope to release an encyclical against Teams calls

[Rod Wong, MD @docrodwong]

a standing ovation for daraxonrasib at asco. over 40k oncologists, entrepreneurs, investors, and patient advocates together celebrating revmed's breakthru in the fight against pancreatic cancer. u never forget these moments. it's what innovation is all about.

[Healthcare AI Guy @HealthcareAIGuy]

NEW: Anthropic just raised $65B at a ~$965B valuation and released Opus 4.8

For the first time, Anthropic added a dedicated healthcare section to its system card

Opus 4.8 scored 55.8% on HealthBench Professional, nearing GPT-5.5’s 56.5%

Health AI models keep getting better 🚀

[David Juurlink @DavidJuurlink]

When the medical student is unusually thorough

[Ramp Capital @RampCapitalLLC]

“You look happier”

“Thanks, the Nasdaq 100 is up 18.5% in the past month”

[Ananyo Bhattacharya @Ananyo]

23 years old with no advanced mathematics training solves Erdős problem with ChatGPT Pro. "What’s beginning to emerge is that the problem was maybe easier than expected, and it was like there was some kind of mental block.”-Terence Tao https://t.co/Cphu6dexyb

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

Introducing ChatGPT for Clinicians:

[NASA @NASA]

It's our home.

This Earth Day, see our planet as our Artemis II astronauts saw it with these new images from the mission.

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[Sebastian Caliri @SebastianCaliri]

American physicians are remarkably pro-AI, and getting more supportive each year.

76% of doctors believe AI can help their ability to care for patients. And 70% believe that patients’ use of general-purpose AI chatbots for health information is positive / or has no impact.

AI will not become a part of American healthcare without buy in from physicians (i.e. individual physicians, not the AMA or other societies, that don't necessarily speak for docs).

Misguided ideas like the NY state bill would limit patient access to these tools. But most American doctors understand that banning data centers is bad for patients.

[Riley Walz @rtwlz]

made my computer dramatically play BBC news music before every meeting

[Healthcare AI Guy @HealthcareAIGuy]

The healthcare roles least, most vulnerable to AI per the Washington Post

Lowest:
support workers, PAs, surgical techs

Low:
lab techs, EMTs, aides, NPs, nurses, physicians

High:
social workers, LPNs, managers, pharma techs

Highest:
medical secretaries, admin assistants

[lcamtuf @lcamtuf]

Me: I want to have more friends

Tech companies:

[Michael Justus @mhjrad]

Did it hurt? When you memorized every brachial plexus branch and then never used that information once?