The 16 members of the 27th Chinese medical team to Ethiopia have been carrying out their medical assistance mission for one month.With compassion and dedication, they embody the spirit of China’s medical aid teams. #colorfulafrica# @MFAEthiopia @ChinaEmbAddis

‘American Doctor’ has a score of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 31 reviews. The film follows three American doctors of diverse backgrounds — Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian — who travel to Gaza to provide medical aid. Upon returning to the United States, they take to Congress to fight for the people they left behind.

"The UK government can put more pressure on Israel... to stop evading international law and make sure Palestinians have the right to live with dignity." Medical Aid for Palestinians representative Aseel Baidoun tells @SkyYaldaHakim 🌍

🚨 Two Chinese Sailors Died Ramming Manila’s Boat. Beijing Hid It for a Year. On August 11, 2025, in broad daylight and calm seas off Scarborough Shoal, China Coast Guard (CCG) cutter 3104 slammed into the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) Type 052D destroyer Guilin (hull 164) at high speed. Both were chasing the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) vessel BRP Suluan, a 44-meter Parola-class patrol vessel on a lawful resupply mission inside Manila’s exclusive economic zone. Philippine video captured the 3104’s bow crumpling ten meters inward. Four CCG sailors visible on that bow moments earlier were gone. Beijing said nothing. CCG spokesman Gan Yu called it “professional, regulated, and legitimate.” Censors scrubbed the footage from Weibo. Filipino radio calls offering medical aid went unanswered. Guilin kept chasing the Suluan before limping away for repairs at Yulin Naval Base. A year later, the cover-up cracked. On August 5, 2026, state broadcaster China National Radio’s (CNR) military channel posthumously named four “martyrs” as “Loyal Guardians of the China Armed Police”. The Ministry of Veterans Affairs martyr database confirms two, Yi Xinyu (born 2003) and Cheng Long (born 2000), were killed on August 11, 2025 during “frontline rights protection operations” in the South China Sea. Beijing’s own paperwork betrayed the story it spent a year burying. This was not seamanship. Since 2018, the CCG has reported through the People’s Armed Police (PAP) to the Central Military Commission (CMC). Two ships coordinating a high-speed block against a civilian resupply run is an ordered operation, not a rogue captain. The world responded. Then-US Ambassador MaryKay Carlson condemned the “reckless action.” Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and the European Union raised alarm. Two days later, USS Higgins and USS Cincinnati sailed Scarborough Shoal on a freedom of navigation operation. Beijing killed two of its own to intimidate a neighbor, then hid the bodies until its own paperwork told on it. ACI — Aric Chen | Insights

In response to the devastating earthquakes that struck Venezuela, AWMH is granting $100,000 in support through longtime partner @directrelief. While the full scale of the damage is yet to be determined, the United Nations is reporting that up to 6.8 million Venezuelans may be affected, including those displaced or losing access to electricity and water. More than 68,000 people were reported missing within three days of the disaster, and the official death toll is approaching 2,000. Direct Relief is preparing medical aid commonly needed after earthquakes, including first-aid supplies, hygiene items for displaced families, medicines used to treat acute injuries, and chronic disease medications for people whose access to routine care may be interrupted. AWMH’s $100,000 grant will support Direct Relief as the organization continues to respond to requests in the region as they become known. 💙 Learn more and join us in lending support at 📸 Maryorin Mendez, AFP #MetallicaGivesBack# #AWMH#

We were honored to host Dr. Nadia Brancati(NRCI), for a guest seminar on May 28th! 🇮🇹 She shared incredible insights from her cutting-edge work in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Medical Imaging. Thank you for an inspiring talk! #ComputerVision# #MedicalAI# #MachineLearning#

TL;DR: Clinical AI benchmarking has a core problem — real EHRs can't be shared and their labels aren't verifiable. This paper solves it with a fully synthetic hospital, and frontier models still fall short of top physicians. Title: Synthetic Hospital: An Open, Verifiable, Physician-Validated Longitudinal EHR Benchmark URL: Points 🏥 Built from medical education materials into 1,268 patients and 5,602 encounters, fully synthetic and PHI-free so it can be shared openly 🔗 Diagnoses, findings, and temporal relations are deterministically grounded in ICD-10-CM/SNOMED CT/LOINC, with labels derived mechanically from a knowledge graph 👨‍⚕️ Physicians distinguished synthetic from real charts at just 53% accuracy — essentially chance 📊 Across 10 models on 5 tasks, the best patient-diagnosis score was Kimi 2.5-thinking at 0.732 severity-weighted F1, matching average physician performance ⚠️ Still well below top physicians (0.89); every model missed roughly half the findings in summarization tasks 🔁 Swapping the generator model changed scores by ≤0.05, confirming it measures real clinical state, not generation artifacts Feels significant to finally have a benchmark that can measure clinical LLMs honestly, without a privacy tax. #MedicalAI# #LLMBenchmark#

Medicaid financing just got rewritten. HR-1 is reshaping reimbursement, managed care expectations, and how much scrutiny your programs are about to face. I'm sitting down with Health Management Associate’s Mara Kilgore and Loren Anthes to break down where the durable growth opportunities are. Free, virtual, Sept. 4, 1PM ET. Come with your questions!