Adam Landman, MD (Mass General Brigham), answers the question of whether voice assistants like Siri or Alexa can help bystanders perform CPR when needed. His recently published study found that the directions provided by these AI voice assistants are inconsistent and lack relevance, often directing people to inappropriate information. But he has some solutions. Also, Ann McKee, MD (Boston University), discusses her study of 152 brains from contact sport players who died before reaching age 30, which found chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) among more than 40%. The findings confirm that CTE can occur even in young people, but more work is needed to determine how CTE relates to clinical symptoms.

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