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Study has implications beyond medical education, suggesting other fields could benefit from AI-enhanced training

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a powerful new tool in training and education, including in the field of neurosurgery. Yet a new study suggests that AI tutoring provides better results when paired with human instruction.

Study has implications beyond medical education, suggesting other fields could benefit from AI-enhanced training

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a powerful new tool in training and education, including in the field of neurosurgery. Yet a new study suggests that AI tutoring provides better results when paired with human instruction.

Study has implications beyond medical education, suggesting other fields could benefit from AI-enhanced training

听

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a powerful new tool in training and education, including in the field of neurosurgery. Yet a new study suggests that AI tutoring provides better results when paired with human instruction.

Study has implications beyond medical education, suggesting other fields could benefit from AI-enhanced training

听

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a powerful new tool in training and education, including in the field of neurosurgery. Yet a new study suggests that AI tutoring provides better results when paired with human instruction.

Study has implications beyond medical education, suggesting other fields could benefit from AI-enhanced training

听

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a powerful new tool in training and education, including in the field of neurosurgery. Yet a new study suggests that AI tutoring provides better results when paired with human instruction.

Study has implications beyond medical education, suggesting other fields could benefit from AI-enhanced training

听

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a powerful new tool in training and education, including in the field of neurosurgery. Yet a new study suggests that AI tutoring provides better results when paired with human instruction.

Study has implications beyond medical education, suggesting other fields could benefit from AI-enhanced training

听

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a powerful new tool in training and education, including in the field of neurosurgery. Yet a new study suggests that AI tutoring provides better results when paired with human instruction.

Study has implications beyond medical education, suggesting other fields could benefit from AI-enhanced training

听

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a powerful new tool in training and education, including in the field of neurosurgery. Yet a new study suggests that AI tutoring provides better results when paired with human instruction.

Study has implications beyond medical education, suggesting other fields could benefit from AI-enhanced training

听

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a powerful new tool in training and education, including in the field of neurosurgery. Yet a new study suggests that AI tutoring provides better results when paired with human instruction.

Study has implications beyond medical education, suggesting other fields could benefit from AI-enhanced training

听

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a powerful new tool in training and education, including in the field of neurosurgery. Yet a new study suggests that AI tutoring provides better results when paired with human instruction.

Study has implications beyond medical education, suggesting other fields could benefit from AI-enhanced training

听

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a powerful new tool in training and education, including in the field of neurosurgery. Yet a new study suggests that AI tutoring provides better results when paired with human instruction.

Study has implications beyond medical education, suggesting other fields could benefit from AI-enhanced training

听

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a powerful new tool in training and education, including in the field of neurosurgery. Yet a new study suggests that AI tutoring provides better results when paired with human instruction.

Study has implications beyond medical education, suggesting other fields could benefit from AI-enhanced training

听

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a powerful new tool in training and education, including in the field of neurosurgery. Yet a new study suggests that AI tutoring provides better results when paired with human instruction.

Study has implications beyond medical education, suggesting other fields could benefit from AI-enhanced training

听

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a powerful new tool in training and education, including in the field of neurosurgery. Yet a new study suggests that AI tutoring provides better results when paired with human instruction.

Study has implications beyond medical education, suggesting other fields could benefit from AI-enhanced training

听

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a powerful new tool in training and education, including in the field of neurosurgery. Yet a new study suggests that AI tutoring provides better results when paired with human instruction.

Study has implications beyond medical education, suggesting other fields could benefit from AI-enhanced training

听

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a powerful new tool in training and education, including in the field of neurosurgery. Yet a new study suggests that AI tutoring provides better results when paired with human instruction.

Study has implications beyond medical education, suggesting other fields could benefit from AI-enhanced training

听

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a powerful new tool in training and education, including in the field of neurosurgery. Yet a new study suggests that AI tutoring provides better results when paired with human instruction.

Study has implications beyond medical education, suggesting other fields could benefit from AI-enhanced training

听

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a powerful new tool in training and education, including in the field of neurosurgery. Yet a new study suggests that AI tutoring provides better results when paired with human instruction.

96 Global Health NOW: China鈥檚 鈥楶atriotic Public Health鈥� War on Chikungunya; HHS Halts mRNA Development; and Rural Romania Battles Vaccine Mistrust August 6, 2025 A worker sprays insecticide at a residential community on July 29, in Foshan, Guangdong Province, China. VCG via Getty China Fights Chikungunya with 鈥楶atriotic Public Health鈥�
To fight a chikungunya outbreak that has sickened thousands, Chinese authorities have launched an all-out assault on mosquitoes鈥攄eploying soldiers 鈥渟praying clouds of disinfectant鈥� and drones to track down their breeding grounds, and threatening fines for people who fail to disperse standing water, .

• The virus, transmitted by the bites of infected mosquitoes, has infected ~8,000 people in China in four weeks, mostly around Foshan鈥攎arking the country鈥檚 largest outbreak since 2008, .


• While rarely fatal, the disease can cause fevers and excruciating pain.

The authorities have also launched a 鈥減atriotic public health campaign鈥� that is unhappily reminiscent, for some, of the country鈥檚 strict measures against COVID-19.
 
The Quote: 鈥淚t鈥檚 fundamentally no different from the Maoist-style public health campaigns. It involves the mass mobilization of the people. It鈥檚 targeting a particular threat to public health and potentially could lead to unintentional consequences,鈥� says Yanzhong Huang, a Council on Foreign Relations senior global health fellow.

Related: What to know about chikungunya virus, as U.S. travel alerts issued 鈥�  GLOBAL HEALTH VOICES The Latest One-Liners   A gonorrhoea vaccination program has been launched in England as the country tries to reduce its soaring infection rates and curb the growing threat of antibiotic-resistant strains; gonorrhoea infections in the country reached a record ~85,000 cases in 2023.

Legionnaires' disease has killed three people in a New York cluster that has sickened ~70 people after it emerged in Harlem last week.  

Raw milk consumption has been linked to 21 people in Florida being sickened by E. coli and campylobacter bacteria, including six children under the age of 10 and seven people who were hospitalized, of the risks of drinking unpasteurized milk.

E. coli can evolve antibiotic-resistance during treatment, , which tracked in real time how the bacteria quickly developed a mechanism to escape a drug鈥檚 effects by amplifying a resistance gene it already carried. U.S. and Global Health Policy News Deep Staff Cuts at a Little-Known Federal Agency Pose Trouble for Droves of Local Health Programs 鈥� Thanks for the tip, Chiara Jaffe! 

Has NSF defied a court order by suspending 300 UCLA grants? 鈥�

Trump administration violated impoundment law by canceling NIH grants, slowing new awards, GAO finds 鈥�

Does SA need a COVID-like ministerial advisory committee to deal with HIV funding cuts? 鈥�

CDC to disburse delayed funds for fighting fentanyl and more, staffers say 鈥�

Why Trump is targeting these programs that help keep drug users alive 鈥�

The GOP is choosing pesticides over the MAHA moms 鈥� RESEARCH HHS Pulls the Plug on mRNA Development
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced yesterday that HHS will cancel 22 federally funded mRNA vaccine development projects worth $500 million鈥攁 move infectious disease specialists and biosecurity experts warned was 鈥渄angerous鈥� and 鈥渟hort-sighted,鈥� .

Details: The contracts were between the federal emergency preparedness agency, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) and leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to develop vaccines for respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu鈥攂uilding off the breakthroughs credited with slowing the 2020 coronavirus pandemic and saving millions of lives, . 

• , Kennedy claimed the mRNA vaccines 鈥渇ail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections,鈥� and that funding will shift to 鈥渟afer, broader鈥� platforms like whole-virus vaccines.


• Some late-stage contracts will continue, but no new federal funding will support mRNA vaccine development. 


• The HHS said 鈥渙ther uses of mRNA technology within the department are not impacted by this announcement.鈥�

Public health alarm: Infectious disease researchers said mRNA technology has proven to be safe and effective鈥攁nd that abandoning the contracts weakens critical biodefense capabilities for public health emergencies. 

• 鈥淲e鈥檙e weakening critical countermeasures at the very moment that global health risks are intensifying,鈥� . 

Avian flu airborne? The decision is especially worrisome as concerns over avian flu persist: In , scientists found live virus in the air of milking facilities, . GLOBAL HEALTH VOICES MEASLES Battling Vaccine Mistrust in Rural Romania
Amid Europe鈥檚 worst measles outbreak in 25鈥痽ears, Romania is the region's most affected country, with around 13,000 of the ~18,000 cases in the European Economic Area registered between June 2024 and May 2025.

• Romania has the EU鈥檚 lowest vaccination rate (62鈥�%), falling short of the 95% the WHO says is needed for effective disease control. 

Doctors are battling deep vaccine mistrust in rural Romanian communities, where misconceptions linking vaccines to autism persist, access to health care is limited, and educational outreach is weak.
 
Factors behind the crisis: poverty, an underfunded medical system, brain drain of health workers, and anti-vaccine rhetoric amplified by far鈥憆ight politicians and misinformation during the COVID鈥�19 pandemic. 

OPPORTUNITY QUICK HITS 鈥楩lesh-Eating鈥� Bacteria Cases Are on the Rise Along the Gulf Coast 鈥�

Pregnant people in rural parts of the country are running out of places to give birth 鈥�

Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs 鈥�

As influencers spread 鈥榯oxic鈥� claims, what is the truth about sunscreen? 鈥�

Many studies of air-cleaning tech say they curb viral spread, but new review raises questions 鈥�

Scientific fraud has become an 鈥榠ndustry,鈥� alarming analysis finds 鈥�

Kids in Pennsylvania Are Breathing (Much) Easier After a Coal Plant Shuttered 鈥� Issue No. 2770
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96 Global Health NOW: The Troubled Fight Against Polio; Plastics: A 鈥楪rave, Growing鈥� Danger; and Wartime Russia is Losing the Battle Against HIV August 5, 2025 A health worker administers polio drops to schoolchildren for vaccination during a door-to-door poliovirus eradication campaign. Lahore, Pakistan, April 21. Arif Ali/AFP via Getty The Troubled Fight Against Polio
The WHO and its partners were close in 2021 to scoring a huge win against polio. They recorded just five cases of the natural virus that year. But the poliovirus eluded vaccination efforts and caused 99 cases last year.
 
In a deeply reported investigation, the AP blames misinformation, mismanagement, a flawed strategy, and the oral vaccine.
 
Challenges: Vaccinating children in Afghanistan and Pakistan (the only countries with uninterrupted polio transmission) is a difficult proposition.

• Some religious leaders tell people to avoid vaccinations, health systems are weak, and hundreds of vaccinators and security officers have been targeted and killed.

Wins: Global Polio Eradication Initiative officials note 3 billion children have been vaccinated and ~20 million people have avoided paralysis since the initiative was founded in 1988.
 
WHO鈥檚 response: 鈥淭here鈥檚 so many children being protected today because of the work that was done over the past 40 years,鈥� said Jamal Ahmed, WHO鈥檚 polio director. 鈥淟et鈥檚 not overdramatize the challenges, because that leads to children getting paralyzed.鈥�
 
Polio鈥檚 end? Transmission is estimated to end within 18 months, and eradication reached by 2029, Ahmed said.

• 45 million children in Pakistan and 11 million in Afghanistan need to be vaccinated this year. 


• Full immunization requires four doses of two drops each.

 
Related: Takeaways from AP鈥檚 report on problems in the worldwide campaign to eradicate polio 鈥� GLOBAL HEALTH VOICES The Latest One-Liners   Misuse of tourniquets is causing thousands of unnecessary amputations and deaths in Ukraine, surgeons say; one estimates that up to three quarters of the ~100,000 amputations performed on Ukrainian soldiers since 2022 were caused by improper use of tourniquets. 

Adolescents in Rwanda aged 15 or older will be able to access family planning services without parental consent under a new law passed by the country鈥檚 parliament aimed at reducing teenage pregnancies. 

An oral anti-COVID-19 treatment passed a clinical trial efficacy test, ; the drug, called CP-COV03 or Xafty, is based on niclosamide, a medication previously used to treat tapeworm infections. 

About two-thirds (59%) of American adults polled will likely skip fall COVID-19 boosters heading into the cold and flu season; about six in ten Republicans say they will 鈥渄efinitely not鈥� get the vaccine.  ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH Plastics: A 鈥楪rave, Growing鈥� Danger
The planet is awash in a 鈥減lastics crisis鈥� that poses a threat to human and planetary health, . 

Surge in production: Plastic output has grown 200X since 1950鈥攄riven largely by single-use items.

Toll on health: Plastics are linked to disease and death across all ages, costing ~$1.5 trillion annually in health-related damages.

• Infants and children are highly susceptible to toxins.

Soaring pollution: 8 billion metric tons of plastic now pollute the globe.

• <10% of plastic is recycled. 

And humans may be inhaling 100X more microplastics than previously assumed, finds , .   



Related: UN races to close global deal that would curb virgin plastic and toxic additives 鈥�  GLOBAL HEALTH VOICES HIV/AIDS Wartime Russia is Losing the Battle Against HIV
War has significantly disrupted HIV prevention and care in Russia鈥攄evelopments that could have long-lasting impacts.

By the numbers: In the first year of the war alone, the recorded incidence of HIV among military personnel soared by 40X+.

• And the proportion of Russian HIV patients receiving antiretroviral therapy has now fallen below 50% for the first time in many years.

Barriers to care: War has amplified anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment in the country, and also contributed to the removal of NGOs assisting in HIV care.

But war itself is a key factor in transmission, as blood transfusions and the reuse of syringes in field hospitals have increased risks.

HEAT As Temperatures Climb, So Do ER Visits
Emergency room visits increase with higher temperatures, especially among young children, 鈥攁nd the maladies may be unexpected. 

• While the links between mortality rates and heatwaves have been long studied, heat鈥檚 impact on morbidity鈥攊llness and poor health鈥攈as been less understood. 

Findings: As temperatures increased, more people visited ERs for a range of illnesses, including some unexpected ones like poisoning, respiratory symptoms, and nervous system problems鈥攖hough researchers say the connections to heat are not yet clear. 

• Data also showed that children under 5 visited ERs at higher rates than any other age group.

Public health implications: Researchers say that the study shows the need for broader protections for a wider span of the population. 



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Louisiana鈥檚 鈥楥ancer Alley鈥� Is More Deadly Than Previously Imagined 鈥�

Chicago was supposed to warn residents about toxic lead pipes last year. Most still have no idea 鈥�

Caffeine pouch craze: A teenage trend troubling some experts 鈥�

Trump officials look to block abortion services at veterans affairs hospitals 鈥�  

White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge 鈥�

Eating ultra-processed foods could make it harder to lose weight 鈥�

More elderly Americans are choking to death. Are these devices the answer? 鈥�

Unwanted pregnancies surge with alcohol, but not with cannabis, study finds 鈥� Issue No. 2769
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