- NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Sydney School of Health, University of Sydney
OpenAI’s new dedicated ‘health and wellness’ tool allows users to link medical records to chat. But it hasn’t been independently tested and will still make mistakes.
Some people ask generative AI health questions that would usually require clinical advice, such as whether to go to hospital for certain symptoms.
Our research shows we are still missing clear and consistent communication about COVID vaccines all Australians can understand and act on.
Just under one in six Australian women have PCOS but some are being diagnosed when they don’t meet the criteria.
A recent article in The Conversation’s Health Rationing series endorsed the government’s decision to extend the BreastScreen program to women aged 70 to 74 (from 50 to 69), based on the results of a 2009…
Women in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will all soon be advised to start screening for cervical cancer at 25 years, and those aged between 50 and 64 years to screen every five years rather…
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