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Jonathan LaPook

New York

Chief Medical Correspondent at CBS News

Chief Medical Correspondent, CBS News. Professor of Medicine, NYU Langone Health. All tweets represent my personal views. Retweets do not = endorsement.

Articles

  • Apr 25, 2024 | yahoo.com | Jonathan LaPook

    NEW YORK -- The parents of children in Flint, Michigan have good reason to be worried about lead in the city's water supply. "There's real danger that the injury is going to be permanent and lifelong in them," Dr. Philip Landrigan, Dean of Global Health at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, tells CBS News. "The problem here is, no level of lead is safe," Landrigan says.

  • Apr 7, 2024 | msn.com | Jonathan LaPook

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  • Apr 7, 2024 | cbsnews.com | Jonathan LaPook

    Providers of mental health services are turning to AI-powered chatbots designed to help fill the gaps amid a shortage of therapists and growing demand from patients. But not all chatbots are equal: some can offer helpful advice while others can be ineffective, or even potentially harmful. Woebot Health uses AI to power its mental health chatbot, called Woebot. The challenge is to protect people from harmful advice while safely harnessing the power of artificial intelligence.

  • Feb 28, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Michael Kaplan |Jonathan LaPook |Sheena Samu

    A CVS pharmacist at an understaffed store knew she was having a heart attack but stayed at work until she died, her family says

  • Feb 28, 2024 | cbsnews.com | Michael Kaplan |Jonathan LaPook |Sheena Samu

    Nabil Haque said he can still remember the moment his wife Sungida Rashid first held their baby daughter in her arms after giving birth at Boston's St. Elizabeth's Medical Center last October. "It was a beautiful moment," Haque told CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook, in his first television interview. "I wasn't expecting it to be this blissful."The bliss was short-lived.