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Walgreens

Rosalind Brewer has officially taken over as CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance as of March 15.

 

 

The FDA has greenlit an AI algorithm that automatically measures dilation in the heart’s right ventricle on CT images.

Technoference Parent

A new survey of around 300 youngish parents has found almost two-thirds worried they’re spending so much time distracted by electronic devices that their children’s development may be at risk.

Gavel

Affronts against privacy and equality—real, perceived or ginned up—may fuel lawsuits by patients whose COVID care incorporated AI.

Fitness Watch

An MIT spinoff based in Boston and Milan in Italy has earned CE certification for software that flags respiratory infection in wearers of the company’s smartwatch devices.

COVID-19 vaccines help reduce the serious coronavirus infections and hospitalizations. Multiple studies have shown that the risk from very rare vaccine side effects are far outweighed by the much greater risk of hospitalization and death due to COVID infections.

Healthcare settings aren't the biggest risk factors for spreading Covid-19, according to a new study that found healthcare workers had bigger risks outside their workplaces.

 

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