Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

INCREASED PREVALENCE OF PANCREATIC CYSTS IN NONSECRETOR (FUT2 NULL) INDIVIDUALS UNDER PANCREATIC SURVEILLANCE

Abstract Background: Pancreatic surveillance commonly detects pancreatic cysts, most of which are presumed intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMN). FUT2, the gene responsible for secretor status, has been implicated in IPMN development, although not with pancreatic cancer...

Flourishing and the Future of US Medical School Admissions

US medical school admissions have been under increasing pressure from state and federal governments, while contending with the implications of the 2023 US Supreme Court decision that ended race-conscious admissions. Change is necessary, but few have offered ideas for how best to...

LLM-Generated Visual Summaries of Cochrane Plain-Language Summaries: A Pilot Expert-Rated Study and Implications for Research Communication

Background: Plain-language summaries (PLSs) improve accessibility of medical research for patients but remain predominantly text-based. Large language models (LLMs) can now generate images from text. We carried out the present exploratory study to evaluate whether LLMs can genera...