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Texas

Reports are arriving of filled hospitals turning away transfers, backlogged ambulances waiting hours to transport patients and shorthanded staffs appealing for relief workers.

Hospital Safety Map

Maine has topped all states in two separate five-year categories of hospital safety—percentage of “A” grade hospitals (57.1%) and average annual placement in these rankings (3.63). How did your state do?

Woman Physician

Medscape surveyed 3,003 women physicians in March and April with questions suggested by a panel of women physicians. The theme was “issues you care about.” Here are some highlights in the findings, released July 15.

The solution, Caption AI, was designed to help users “without lengthy specialized training” capture high-quality images.  

Cross-Atlantic researchers have developed two AI models that are fast and accurate at screening for COVID-19, offering hospitals potential options when lab testing is backed up or unavailable.

Robot

Asked to identify which of six fictional persons is most likely to be a terrorist, 85% of 1,500 participants in a psychology experiment selected one of the least likely suspects. And they did so specifically because they’d seen an AI robot make the ridiculous choice first.

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