arXiv:2607. 12336v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, while serving as a foundational enabler for modern social media and digital health services, exert a bivalent effect by simultaneously acting as a combatant against and a spread vector for misinformation.
arXiv:2608. 13695v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model providers routinely cite multilingual safety benchmarks spanning a dozen or more languages as evidence that their models are safe for non-English-speaking users.
arXiv:2508. 00923v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to answer health-related questions and support healthcare workflows, yet evidence for their safety still relies heavily on static benchmarks that can rapidly become obsolete or be optimized against.
HerHealthEval is a controlled evaluation framework that tests multilingual understanding of women's-health communication across English, French, and Modern Standard Arabic. It provides six communicative forms—canonical, clinical, layperson, indirect or hedged, emotionally concerned, and deliberately under-specified—each conveying the same clinical concern except the under-specified form omits details to assess clarification needs. The study evaluates multilingual instruction models and QLoRA-adapted variants on tasks such as concern classification, risk calibration, clarification behavior, parse compliance, and cross-form consistency, revealing that high aggregate accuracy can mask safety-relevant failures and that language-invariant risk labels improve performance.
arXiv:2609.00319v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Online health information seeking is shifting from keyword search, where users consider a ranked list of links, to conversational systems that compos...
arXiv:2605. 03301v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: De-identification of clinical text is a prerequisite for the secondary use of electronic health records.
arXiv:2606. 19640v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI and large language models (LLMs) have emerged as promising tools to address global mental health challenges.
arXiv:2601. 09853v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-world health questions from patients often unintentionally embed false assumptions or premises.
MIRA is a bilingual benchmark that evaluates whether large language models (LLMs) provide consistent medical information across different user phrasings, languages, and health literacy levels. It contains 4,320 prompts derived from 60 medically reviewed low‑risk health questions and reveals that models tend to omit key information and offer fewer concrete next steps when responding to low health‑literacy signals, a phenomenon termed Differential Information Dilution (DID). A knowledge‑guided mitigation prompt can reduce this dilution for most models, notably improving Claude and Qwen.
The paper introduces a framework to evaluate and diagnose the robustness of low‑resource multilingual text‑to‑speech systems when faced with complex text inputs such as numbers, dates, named entities, long sentences, code‑switched expressions, and punctuation structures. It assesses robustness across content consistency, language consistency, and generation stability, and proposes automatic metrics (character error rate, language ID accuracy, duration abnormal rate) along with a lightweight Text Risk Score (TRS) that predicts synthesis risk from interpretable text features. Experiments on Thai, Vietnamese, Swahili, and Indonesian TTS systems reveal distinct failure patterns and show that TRS correlates positively with content and duration errors, offering a low‑cost pre‑synthesis risk indicator.
DocTalkBN is a large-scale multimodal dataset of authentic expert telemedicine conversations in Bengali, comprising 557.63 hours of paired audio and text, 1,515 multi-turn patient calls, and 10,274 host–doctor question–answer exchanges across 26 medical specialties. The dataset contains 1.7 million tokens and preserves the spontaneity and contextual richness of real medical interactions in a low-resource language. Three downstream tasks—medical triage classification, advice safety evaluation, and medical named entity recognition—are constructed to benchmark large language models and encoder-based baselines, demonstrating DocTalkBN’s practical usefulness for clinically grounded reasoning.
arXiv:2608. 15691v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Health misinformation circulating during pandemics can gain traction rapidly, creating harmful narratives that compete with public health guidance.
The rapid spread of false and misleading health information through digital platforms has become a major public health challenge, particularly during infectious disease outbreaks where delayed verification can influence public behaviour and hinder effective disease control. Although recent advances in automated health misinformation detection have shown encouraging results, most existing approaches rely heavily on global biomedical resources and often fail to capture the local context needed to verify claims in developing countries.