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About one-quarter of elderly Americans don’t fully understand their Medicare Advantage or Medicare Supplement plans, according to a new survey.

Face Mask COVID

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guidance on COVID-19 vaccinations, clearing the way for fully vaccinated individuals to gather with other vaccinated people indoors without masks or social distancing. 

Robot Dog

Emergency-room patients are happy to receive care from a physician interacting remotely over a tablet computer mounted on a dog-like robot.

Prostate Cancer

The FDA has cleared an AI tool that helps radiologists diagnose or rule out prostate cancer on MRI scans.

Chemist

Harvard researchers have used machine learning to find molecular features in existing drugs that may be effective in warding off or treating Alzheimer’s disease.

North America has bragging rights to the five best hospitals in the world, although institutions specifically in the United States make up only nine of the top 25.

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