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Sleep

The novel AI-aided app can run on both Apple and Android operating systems and only needs to be placed near the would-be sleeper—a familiar nightstand, shelf or end table will do—at bedtime.

Trump

During his ABC News town hall Tuesday night, President Donald Trump suggested a COVID vaccine may be FDA-approved by early to mid-October. “[W]e’re within weeks of getting it,” he said. “Could be three weeks, four weeks.”

Yet still, the past eight years have seen the highest rate of turnover in healthcare C-suites since ACHE started compiling the report in the 1980s.

Coal Mine

Researchers at West Virginia University are well placed to tap AI for teasing out the role of existing respiratory concerns in the progression of COVID-19.

Providers seeing patients remotely via Microsoft Teams make up the target market for a Nuance voice-recognition offering that automatically takes clinical notes during virtual visits and renders them useful immediately afterward.

Pills

HHS has awarded $25 million to 80 organizations that are battling the opioid epidemic in rural communities by providing prevention, treatment and recovery services.

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