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The profession of nursing is something of a sleeping giant within the global village of healthcare AI, according to an interdisciplinary collaborative of healthcare workers from North America and Europe.

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AI company Exscientia has received a vote of confidence approaching $1.2 billion in value from Bristol-Myers Squibb.

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Google Health is launching a free app that uses AI trained on more than 16,000 clinical dermatology cases and can identify hundreds of skin conditions, including cancers, with accuracy comparable to that of board-certified dermatologists in the U.S.

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AI is poised to help settle an argument that’s been roiling academic psychiatry for more than a century: Are bipolar disorder and schizophrenia two distinct diagnoses—or points along a single continuum?

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Researchers at Duke University are working on a vaccine that has the potential to stop future pandemics by protecting against a variety of coronavirus infections that can jump from animals to humans.

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The principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is stepping down from her role, marking the second high-profile departure from the agency in the span of a month.

 

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The approval, made as part of a special FDA pilot program, took just 50 days.