Evidence-Verification

A Clinical Agent Needs an Evidence Loop, Not Just More Tools

TL;DR for operators MedTRACE1 suggests that a tool-using clinical agent should be designed around an evidence-control loop, not simply around access to more retrieval systems or specialist models. With the same Qwen2.5-VL backbone, identical tools, retrieval corpus, and tool-call budget, MedTRACE reaches 81.7% aggregate Accuracy versus 76.8% for a matched ReAct Agent. ...

When LLMs Stop Guessing and Start Arguing: A Two‑Stage Cure for Health Misinformation

A clinic does not convene a committee every time a thermometer reads 37°C. It checks the reading, compares it with context, and escalates only when the situation becomes ambiguous. That simple operating habit is often missing from AI systems. Give a language model a health claim, and many modern pipelines immediately reach for the big machinery: web search, retrieval, reasoning chains, multiple agents, judge models, and a small theatre production in prompt form. ...