Combating misinformation in the age of llms: Opportunities and challenges

C Chen, K Shu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.05656, 2023 - arxiv.org
Misinformation such as fake news and rumors is a serious threat on information ecosystems
and public trust. The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has great potential to …

Current safeguards, risk mitigation, and transparency measures of large language models against the generation of health disinformation: repeated cross sectional …

BD Menz, NM Kuderer, S Bacchi, ND Modi, B Chin-Yee… - bmj, 2024 - bmj.com
Objectives To evaluate the effectiveness of safeguards to prevent large language models
(LLMs) from being misused to generate health disinformation, and to evaluate the …

Mental Health, Climate Change, and Bodily Autonomy: An Analysis of Adolescent Health Policy in the Postpandemic Climate

M McNamara, J Barondeau, J Brown - Pediatric Clinics, 2024 - pediatric.theclinics.com
During the pandemic, disparities and biases in our society were thrown into high relief.
Political extremism and conspiratorial thinking grew due to fatigue over COVID-19 safety …

Four Years Since COVID-19 Day Zero: A Time to Evaluate Past and Future Pandemic Control Policies and Practices in Sub-Saharan Africa?

OO Oleribe, AW Taylor-Robinson… - … and Healthcare Policy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Four years after the first case of COVID-19, the world is still determining how best to prevent
and control the long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Non-pharmaceutical …

[HTML][HTML] Variation in Trust in Cancer Information Sources by Perceptions of Social Media Health Mis-and Disinformation and by Race and Ethnicity Among Adults in …

JP Stimpson, S Park, SL Pruitt, AN Ortega - JMIR cancer, 2024 - cancer.jmir.org
Background: Mis-and disinformation on social media have become widespread, which can
lead to a lack of trust in health information sources and, in turn, lead to negative health …

[HTML][HTML] Fear, misinformation, and pharmaceutical messianism in the promotion of compounded bioidentical hormone therapy

RP Kauffman, EJ MacLaughlin, LA Courtney… - … in Reproductive Health, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Compounded bioidentical hormone therapy (cBHT) for menopausal symptoms maintains
popularity in western countries despite the availability of hormone products in different …

[HTML][HTML] Special Paper: Current safeguards, risk mitigation, and transparency measures of large language models against the generation of health disinformation …

BD Menz, NM Kuderer, S Bacchi, ND Modi, B Chin-Yee… - The BMJ, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objectives To evaluate the effectiveness of safeguards to prevent large language models
(LLMs) from being misused to generate health disinformation, and to evaluate the …

Fraud in Medical Publications

CG Nato, F Bilotta - Anesthesiology Clinics, 2024 - anesthesiology.theclinics.com
Discussion This review is intended to explore the prevalence of research fraud, the impact of
manipulated data on guidelines and health care quality, and strategies for identifying forged …

[PDF][PDF] The COVID Debacle: Merging Criminal Law and Medical Science for Accountability

S Hatfill - Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, 2023 - jpands.org
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the primary federal agency
responsible for managing infectious disease outbreaks, and the Food and Drug …

[HTML][HTML] Ivermectin Prescription Fill Rates Among US Military Members During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

SS Clausen, JH Murray… - Medical Surveillance …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This report describes ivermectin prescription fill rates among US active component service
members (ACSM) over time during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. Information …