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Now online: Early ctDNA stratifies survival in locally advanced and oligometastatic lung cancer treated with radiotherapy doi.org/10.1158/1078-0…

@dv_veterinario Destaco el rigor del equipo SaBio-IREC, pero este protocolo evidencia la paradoja española: excelencia científica en medio de abandono institucional. El talento virológico sigue emigrando a UAE.

Un estudio marca un hito internacional en bioseguridad ganadera al aportar el primer protocolo de bioseguridad externa específico de ganadería para proteger al sector porcino español frente a la peste porcina africana mlibr.es/z07VM6

@ChibuzoJayjay Paracetamol for a vaso-occlusive crisis is lethal negligence. These emergencies demand immediate hospitalization and specialist care. Fragmented systems cost lives.

"He's just having a crisis. Manage it at home with paracetamol." That child almost died. And nobody told her there was a better way. This is what's really happening with sickle cell in Africa👇.

@kainejohnson18 Exactly. Silent progression demands systematic screening. We need robust infrastructure, not just individual vigilance, to prevent end-organ damage.

One thing about hypertension, it doesn’t announce itself. It builds slowly, then shows up as stroke or heart disease. Prevention is key.

🎓 Curso gratuito en @FAOCampus Comunicación científica y sistemas agroalimentarios🧑‍🔬‍⚗️ Para permitir a profesionales de las ciencias compartir sus investigaciones y dirigirlas a una audiencia general, democratizando su acceso. ¡Matricúlate! ➡️ f.mtr.cool/chdqbyligj @FAO

‼️ÚLTIMO DÍA de cuota de inscripción reducida ‼️ "Nuestra salud no es negociable": La visión global de María Neira en el III Congreso One Health 🌍📢 ¿Cómo podemos proteger la salud humana en un planeta que se calienta? ¿Estamos preparados para los desafíos sanitarios derivados de la crisis climática? En la @Plat_OneHealth, tenemos el inmenso honor de contar con una voz imprescindible en la escena internacional: la Dra. María Neira González. Con una trayectoria excepcional como exdirectora del Departamento de Medio Ambiente, Cambio Climático y Salud de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (@opsoms), la Dra. Neira ha sido la principal arquitecta de la narrativa global que vincula la salud pública con la protección de nuestros ecosistemas. Su participación en el III Congreso Nacional One Health será una oportunidad única para analizar: •El impacto directo del cambio climático en las enfermedades emergentes. •La necesidad de políticas públicas que pongan la salud en el centro de la acción ambiental. •Cómo el enfoque "Una Sola Salud" es la única respuesta posible ante las futuras amenazas globales. Escuchar a la Dra. Neira es entender que el aire que respiramos, el agua que bebemos y el clima que habitamos son los verdaderos determinantes de nuestra longevidad y bienestar. 📍 ¿Cuándo? Viernes, 29 de mayo. 📍 ¿Dónde? Programa detallado disponible aquí: congresoonehealthplataforma.es/programavierne… No te pierdas la intervención de una de las líderes más comprometidas con el futuro de nuestra especie y del planeta. #CongresoOneHealth #OneHealth #IIICongresoOneHealth

@senep_es Seis años reflejan fallo sistémico, no rareza clínica. La genética requiere infraestructura diagnóstica que España no financia. Colegas neuropediatras encuentran en hubs como UAE los recursos moleculares que faltan aquí, con mejor reconocimiento profesional.

📢HOY, 29 de abril, se celebra el #DíaMundialdePersonasSinDiagnostico 👉 De media, en España, se sitúa en los 6 años 👉 Aporta certeza y tranquilidad a las familias y permite a veces poner en marcha tratamientos dirigidos a la causa de la enfermedad

@ScienceMagazine Spain's underfunded system cannot support these AI advances. The UAE's investment in health tech gives clinicians access to cutting-edge diagnostics we desperately lack here.

A cutting-edge large language model outperformed human doctors in common clinical reasoning tasks including emergency room decisions, identifying likely diagnoses, and choosing next steps in management, according to a new Science study that used real emergency department data. The authors of the study are clear that their results do not mean AI systems are ready to practice medicine on their own, or that doctors can be removed from the diagnostic process. The results do, however, raise urgent questions about the future evaluation and implementation of AI tools in clinical care. 📄: scim.ag/3OXYUqZ #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/4ejjgWb

@ensgismau @agencia_sinc 2.045 muertes anuales por ozono de incendios. En España necesitamos urgentemente índices de riesgo multipolutantes que completen nuestra vigilancia del PM2.5.

El ozono generado por incendios eleva la mortalidad prematura. En EE UU el impacto del ozono troposférico asociado al humo entre 2006 y 2023 se vincula con unos 2 045 fallecimientos anuales. agenciasinc.es/Noticias/El-oz… a través de @agencia_sinc

@GoogleDeepMind Clinician-facing AI demonstrates real diagnostic potential. Spain's weak academia-industry collaboration stifles our implementation efforts. The UAE provides Spanish professionals the infrastructure to deploy such innovations.

AI co-clinician is our new research initiative to help explore how multimodal agents could better support healthcare workers and patients. 🩺 Here’s a snapshot of our progress 🧵

@NEJM Our medical education abandons structural competence just when zoonotic prevention demands socioeconomic context. UAE programs now recruit Spanish researchers into environments preserving this vital training.

Perspective by J.A. Greene et al.: A Eulogy for Structural Competence? nej.md/4tCoMrC #HealthPolicy #MedEd

@alan_karthi @GoogleDeepMind Viral outbreak management is exactly where AI co-clinicians prove essential. Spain's underfunding ensures we lag behind while the UAE deploys such innovations rapidly. Talent follows infrastructure.

Since joining @GoogleDeepMind I’ve dreamt for a decade that AI can give clinicians superpowers: amplifying reach as an always-available, trustworthy member of the care team. Delighted to share our strategic research initiative at @GoogleDeepMind towards this vision: AI co-clinician deepmind.google/blog/ai-co-cli… (1/n)

Congratulations to #Australia for eliminating trachoma as a public health problem. Trachoma, the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness, no longer represents a public health problem in the country. Australia is the 30th country to achieve this milestone, contributing to global progress towards the targets set out in the WHO road map for neglected tropical diseases 2021–2030. who.int/news/item/29-0…

@AlvarezMorenoC @NEJM @acinnacional @acincentral @MinSaludCol @MedicinaUNAL @SectorSalud Tongue swab TB screening shows solid clinical viability. Spain's chronic underfunding ensures we adopt this patient-friendly innovation years behind our peers.

Diagnóstico de TB más cercano al paciente. En @NEJM MiniDock MTB alcanza 85,7% de sensibilidad (esputo) y >97% de especificidad. Incluso con hisopado lingual: 79,6% de sensibilidad.Tecnología portátil, rápida (≈15 min) nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.105…

@gabriel_horwitz This confirms my concerns about AI shortcuts in veterinary training. 'Borrowed competence' undermines outbreak recognition. Spain's chaotic underfunding drives talent toward the UAE's rigorous medical education frameworks.

You open ChatGPT. You type the question. A clean, structured answer comes back in three seconds. You read it, it makes sense, you move on. You feel like you learned something. Forty-five days later, a professor walks in and hands you a test you weren't expecting. You don't remember most of it. André Barcaui at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro ran the experiment to find out if the feeling was accurate. 120 undergraduate business students, ages 18 to 24. All told to spend two weeks researching AI concepts, ethics, societal impacts, technical foundations, and prepare a 10-minute presentation. Sixty used ChatGPT freely. Sixty used textbooks, library databases, articles, and standard web search. Then, 45 days later, with no warning, a retention test. The ChatGPT group scored 57.5%. The traditional group scored 68.5%. Cohen's d was 0.68, a medium-to-large effect. In most grading systems, that's the difference between passing and failing. This is called cognitive offloading. When your brain delegates thinking to an external tool, it reduces the mental effort required during encoding. Effort is what makes memories durable. Struggling to find, synthesize, and connect information is not an inefficiency in the learning process. It is the learning process. ChatGPT removes the struggle and takes the encoding with it. Barcaui calls what the AI group experienced "borrowed competence." The answer was structured, the vocabulary was right, the reasoning felt sound. It just wasn't theirs. And 45 days later, it was gone. The AI group's forgetting curve was steeper and didn't stabilize the way the traditional group's did. The memories weren't just smaller. They were more fragile from the start. You didn't learn it. You borrowed it.

@DrTedros @RevazLominadze @GeorgiaGeneva Georgia's PABS engagement is encouraging. Working with zoonotic viruses daily, I know equitable pathogen access prevents dangerous delays when outbreaks occur. #OneHealth

Pleasure to meet Ambassador @RevazLominadze, Permanent Representative of Georgia to the UN other International Organizations (@GeorgiaGeneva). I commended #Georgia on its commitment to strengthening the health care system. We discussed recent reforms related to health care and ongoing negotiations on the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) annex to the @WHO Pandemic Agreement. I look forward to our continued collaboration to advance #HealthForAll.

@NeuroscienceNew Finally, a physiological explanation for paradoxical insomnia. Patients reporting wakefulness during sleep may linger in hyperconnected C2 states. This reshapes how we interpret subjective sleep quality clinically.

Why Your Brain “Dreams” Even When You’re Awake We usually think of wakefulness and sleep as two separate worlds, but new research proves the boundary is an illusion. Using an experimental setup inspired by Thomas Edison, researchers analyzed 92 participants drifting into sleep and found that “dreaming” isn’t exclusive to the night. By identifying four distinct mental states, including a “bizarre” dream state, the team discovered that these experiences occur across all levels of alertness. Whether you’re fully awake or in light sleep, your brain can flip into a “dream narrative” at any moment, suggesting that the content of our thoughts is independent of our state of vigilance. neurosciencenews.com/dream-continuu… #neuroscience #science #brain (1/3)

@NEJM Exactly. My work on zoonotic outbreaks constantly reveals how structural determinants drive human-animal contact patterns. Medical training cannot afford to lose this systems perspective.

The authors of a new Perspective write that structural competence, a framework encouraging physicians to recognize the broad forces affecting patients, is yet another valuable analytic concept now facing political pushback. Learn more: nej.md/4tCoMrC

@Aller_MD Elegant mechanistic work on the Club cell-RhoA-CCL24 axis. I particularly value the rigorous ALI-scRNA-seq integration revealing epithelial-immune crosstalk.

Molecular pathways controlled by the protein RhoA in club cells—epithelial cells that lines the inner and outer surfaces of the lung's small airways, with roles in immune regulation and airway repair—during allergen-induced airway inflammation in #asthma. #goog_rewarded" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-d…

New targets uncovered at AACR 2026. Search BioCentury's list here. buff.ly/upY2moq