UC Irvine researchers designed and developed a minimally invasive replacement pulmonary heart valve.

Created for pediatric patients, the device can be expanded as children grow, eliminating the need for multiple surgeries.

The team successfully conducted laboratory and early-stage animal feasibility testing of the implant, crucial steps toward approval for human use.

An MIT study finds non-clinical information in patient messages, like typos, extra whitespace, or colorful language, can reduce the accuracy of a large language model deployed to make treatment recommendations. The LLMs were consistently less accurate for female patients, even when all gender markers were removed from the text.