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A molecular diagnostics company is working with a genetic-health AI startup at breathing virtual life into a cognitive chatbot tasked with assisting individuals who may be at risk of hereditary cancer.

Dollars

Physicians who spend time on leadership duties increasingly expect to be compensated for performing these “above and beyond” tasks.

Covid Fight

It’s a painful paradox that hospitals can help COVID patients recover while helping the virus spread—and not only to non-COVID patients but also to healthcare workers, support staff and even visitors.

Sweden

Once a widespread COVID outbreak is underway, encouraging personal responsibility works about as well at mitigation as mandating widespread lockdowns.

COVID mask

Their public plea comes amid spikes in coronavirus cases in states such as Texas and Florida, with residents in both recently filing lawsuits to quash government mask mandates. 

Psychology talk therapy

A deep learning model has achieved human-level proficiency in three of five exercises, accurately categorizing verbal expressions from more than 33,000 talk-therapy patients who underwent their sessions online.

Around the web

In particular, rads working in breast imaging and pediatrics appear to score the lowest rates of career advancement, experts write in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology