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The Healthcare Vision of ChatGPT-4o and Multimodal LLMs

The Medical Futurist

The latest – and perhaps biggest – hit was the announcement of ChatGPT-4o from OpenAI. The 4o model is described as “natively multimodal,” a feature also claimed for Google’s Gemini at its launch. Just as we’ve seen how live translation works with ChatGPT-4o. ” Patient points to lower abdomen.

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MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Health Care Bills

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

The bill includes a family physician as a member of the committee, which is tasked with advising the Governor and legislature on policies and practices related to school health. Schools are seeing increased concerns related to managing acute and chronic health conditions, mental health issues and health fragility.

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Episode 309 – Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 23 – Anti-Blackness, Anti-Fatness, and Food Shaming

The Clinical Problem Solvers

The developing attitudes about food scarcity and deficit models, and mass media’s manufacturing consent, has to be challenged, especially because there is a deep and rich history of Black people as farmers, gardeners, and ranchers that belies what Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls the danger of a single story. is rooted in anti-Blackness.

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Key Bills in the 2025 Legislative Session AAFP is Watching Closely

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

While minors could still consent to care for pregnancy, STIs, and substance abuse, parental consent would be required for other medical care, mental health counseling (including school counseling), vaccinations, and bone marrow donation. The bill also addresses parental access to health information and parental rights.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

Today we find inspiration for my kids: there are adults who care deeply about this issue, particularly for older adults who are much more vulnerable to health effects of climate change. Summary Transcript Summary To my teenagers, climate change is an existential crisis. It’s the end of the world as we know it. Ruth: Thank you.