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Moodie: An Early-Stage Design Exploration for Supporting Fear of Missing Out with LLM-based Chatbots

- The excessive use of social media has led to the challenge known as Fear of Missing Out (FoMO). Existing studies fail to provide accessible, interactive tools that focus on the emotional and...

Accelerating Reproducible Research in Synthetic EHR Generation

- The generation of high-fidelity synthetic Electronic Health Records (EHR) is crucial for advancing medical research while preserving patient privacy. However, head-to-head comparison of existing...

TA-RAG: Tone-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Peer-Support Health Communication

- Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) successfully grounds large language model (LLM) outputs in trusted documents, but factual grounding alone is insufficient for sensitive peer-support health...

Exploring Reinforcement Learning for Fluid Transitions Between Clinical Mental Healthcare and Everyday Wellness Support

- Mental health struggles wax and wane, yet clinical and wellness interventions typically operate separately, causing frequent breakdowns at care transitions. We explore reinforcement learning (RL) as...

MSAIC-Net: A Multi-Scale Attention and Imbalance-Aware Contrastive Network for ECG-Based Myocardial Substrate Abnormality Detection

- Myocardial substrate abnormalities, such as myocardial scar and myocardial infarction (MI), are associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes. Electrocardiography (ECG) provides a low-cost and...

From Pixels to Newtons: Predicting In Vivo Joint Contact Forces from Monocular Video

- Joint contact forces govern implant longevity, cartilage health, and rehabilitation outcomes, shaping who develops osteoarthritis, who recovers well from joint replacement, and who benefits from...

Collaborative estimation and evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 variant nowcasting in the United States

- The ability to estimate and predict pathogen variant dynamics can inform public health responses, including planning for increased transmission or severity, shifts in population immunity, or changes...

ARUTMIN’S CSR FOOTPRINT IN THE SDGS: PROMOTING INCLUSIVE HEALTH IN THE KINTAP MINING AREA

Exploring the interplay between systemic immune–inflammatory response, nutritional patterns, and metabolic health in MAFLD

The supplements older adults actually need and the ones they don't

06/06/2026 - Supplements are often marketed as shortcuts to better health, but for many older adults, the real issue is whether they have a specific deficiency. Vitamins like B12 and D can play an important role...

Scientists sound the alarm as dangerous amoebas spread globally

06/06/2026 - Scientists warn that free-living amoebae may be an underappreciated public health threat, capable of causing deadly infections and shielding other dangerous microbes from water treatment. Climate...

TabSODA: Tabular Diffusion based Imputation with Skip Pattern Detection and Ordinal Awareness

- Missing data imputation in large-scale surveys faces two challenges that are not well handled by current tabular diffusion methods. First, \emph{structural skips}, cells made inapplicable by...

Quantifying the biophysical properties of stomatocytes in health and disease

- Hereditary stomatocytosis (HS) comprises red blood cell (RBC) disorders characterized by cup-shaped erythrocytes that respond oppositely to splenectomy: curative in overhydrated HS (OHS) but...

An Infectious Disease Spread Simulation Based on Large Language Model Decision Making

- Modelling individual decision-making during infectious disease outbreaks is crucial for understanding behavioural dynamics and informing effective public health interventions. Prior work has shown...

Learning to model pediatric asthma exacerbation from multiple risk factors: a case study in coastal Virginia

- Childhood asthma is a common illness exacerbated by air pollution as well as meteorological and neighborhood-level socioeconomic factors. Modeling asthma exacerbation (AE) in large spatiotemporal...

HoT-SSM:Higher-order Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning with State Space Models for Health Care

- Medical knowledge graphs (MKGs) infused with clinical knowledge have been increasingly used to model electronic health records (EHRs) to support interpretable predictions in healthcare domain....

Empathy on Demand: How Empathic AI Can Scale Emotional Support for Verbal Harassment

- Verbal harassment is a growing source of psychological stress for people around the world. It occurs both online and offline and relies on language to demean, threaten, or discredit its targets....

Three Years of r/ChatGPT: Societal Impact Evaluations from Social Media Data

- ChatGPT was launched on November 30, 2022; the r/ChatGPT subreddit was created just one day later. Since then, chatbot-based AI products have gone from niche proofs-of-concept to widely-used...

The Coverage Gap: Chile's Cyber Disclosure Framework versus the USA, EU and UK

- We introduce the Coverage Gap as a measurable distance between the observable public exposure of critical-infrastructure operators and their declared capability to coordinate vulnerability...

InfoShield: Privacy-Preserving Speech Representations for Mental Health Screening via Information-Theoretic Optimization

- Speech-based mental health screening offers scalable depression detection, yet clinical deployment faces a significant barrier: users' privacy concerns about demographic information exposure....

Towards Unified and Data-Efficient Prognostics and Health Management with Tabular Foundation Models

- Data-driven Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) uses time-varying condition-monitoring data to diagnose system states and estimate remaining useful life in engineered assets. These tasks are...