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Blood Test Lab. A multidisciplinary panel recently published recommendations in the Journal of Pediatrics to promote early identification of children living with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) through blood testing to better detect and prevent early onset cardiovascular disease.

Oxford researchers have developed and prospectively validated two AI tools that can quickly screen hospital patients for COVID-19 using routine clinical data.

European Union

Various scenarios within medical diagnostics are among the AI use cases that an official European watchdog has flagged as a potential source of hazards to fundamental human rights.

Cybercrime

A trend has emerged of evidently softhearted ransomware gangs swearing off hospitals during the COVID crisis.

USA

This week NPR has posted three interactive infographics that health execs may find especially valuable as COVID-19 surges in spots across the U.S. and around the world.

Toronto

North of the border, two grants of $200,000 are on offer for researchers innovating transformative ways to apply AI in healthcare—and they’re only one part of an ambitious academic endeavor to expand medical AI.

Orthopedic

An Israeli healthcare AI startup has earned a seventh green light from the FDA. Its latest algorithm can reconstruct X-rays of bones into 3D printouts with no less clarity than would be produced by advanced imaging modalities.

Around the web

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