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April 30, 2026
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Q&A: COSMO conference aims to combat ‘dangerous’ misinformation in health care
Shikha Jain, MD, FACP, has seen misinformation kill patients.“They so firmly believe what they’ve seen online that they go against standard of care, and they end up dying because they don’t believe the science,” Jain, associate professor of medicine in the division of hematology and oncology at University of Illinois Cancer Center in Chicago and consulting editor for
TL;DRAI
COSMO conference (Aug. 7-8, Chicago) trains clinicians, nurses and patient advocates to counter cancer misinformation spreading via social media and AI platforms. As AI amplifies unvetted health content at scale, operators face rising governance pressure on medical content credentialing.
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