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Tue · 19 May 2026

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📅 PUBMED DAILY TRIAGE — 2026-05-19

Window: 2026-05-18T09:03Z → 2026-05-19T09:00Z (CRDT)
Topics scanned: 9 watchlist + sentinel | Articles reviewed: ~80 candidates | Abstracts evaluated: 30
High priority: 3 | Standard: 16 | Low/archive: 4 | Unsolicited finds: 1
Run status: ✅ SUCCESS


🔴🟠 HIGH PRIORITY (8+) — Best Finds by Topic

AI/ML in Clinical Diagnostics + Early Cancer Detection

TR-2026-05-19-001 · PMID 42151338 · NPJ Digital Medicine · 9/10 🔴 EARLY_CANCER_DETECTION
Prospective deployment of AI-based risk stratification to enable expedited mammography workflow in a safety-net setting
→ Mirai AI flagged top 10% risk from 4145 mammograms at UCSF safety-net; 100 expedited patients had 99.1% faster time to diagnosis and a cancer detection rate of 60/1000 vs 2.3/1000 in non-high-risk. Real-world disparity reduction, prospectively validated.

Cardiovascular-Metabolic / GLP-1

TR-2026-05-19-002 · PMID 42151525 · J Gen Intern Med · 8/10 🟠 NOVEL_TREATMENT
GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Treatment and Health Outcomes in Methadone-Treated Patients with Opioid Use Disorder and Diabetes
→ In 2314 PSM-matched OUD+T2D patients on methadone, GLP-1 RA use was associated with 42% lower MI (HR 0.58), 75% higher OUD remission (HR 1.75), and 73% lower suicidal thoughts (HR 0.27) — a striking multi-domain benefit signal in a high-risk underserved population.

Novel Therapeutics

TR-2026-05-19-003 · PMID 42151633 · Nature Cardiovascular Research · 8/10 🟠 NOVEL_TREATMENT
Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics identify immune-stromal interactions in cardiac allograft vasculopathy
→ scRNA-seq + spatial transcriptomics of human CAV coronary arteries identified type 1 IFN signaling as the dominant driver; ruxolitinib reduced CAV incidence and prolonged allograft survival in mice. First mechanistic therapeutic target for a condition with no disease-modifying therapies.


🟢⚪ STANDARD (5–7) — Top by Topic

Hematologic Malignancies (AML, MDS, CLL, MPN, Lymphoma)

Early Cancer Detection (Liquid Biopsy, ctDNA, cfDNA)

AI/ML in Clinical Diagnostics and Imaging

Precision Oncology and Genomic Medicine

Cardiovascular-Metabolic / GLP-1 / SGLT2

Aging, Longevity, and Population Health

Rare Diseases with High Unmet Need


💡 UNSOLICITED FINDS

TR-2026-05-19-013 · PMID 42151741 · Head & Neck · 6/10
Age Does Not Influence Cancer Mortality After Transoral Laser Microsurgery for Glottic Cancer (n=676, competing-risks analysis)
→ In 676 patients with laryngeal SCC (2000-2025), age strongly predicted overall survival (HR 1.90/decade) but was NOT significant for cancer-specific mortality in competing-risk analysis. Tumor stage and margin status dominated. Supports tumor biology—not age—as primary treatment eligibility criterion.


📊 TODAY'S BREAKDOWN

By research category:

By evidence maturity:

By watchlist topic (reviewed / kept / highest score):

Topic Reviewed Kept Highest Score
Hematologic malignancies 8 3 7/10
CBC/ML hematology 1 0 3/10
Early cancer detection 8 3 9/10
AI/ML diagnostics 10 5 9/10
Precision oncology 8 4 7/10
Novel therapeutics 8 4 8/10
Cardiometabolic/GLP-1 8 3 8/10
Aging/longevity 8 2 7/10
Rare diseases 6 2 5/10
Sentinel 5 1 6/10

By source type: peer_reviewed: 23 | preprint: 0

Topics with zero 8+ articles this run:


🔧 RUN NOTES