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Dermatology researchers have mined Reddit discussion forums with natural language processing and come away with some surprising insights into patients’ at-home skin treatments for conditions like acne, eczema and psoriasis.

Reflect

Following its search engine-based entry into algorithmic suicide prevention this past spring, the Trevor Project is fine-tuning Google’s AI technology by training algorithms on both initial conversations with counselors and the counselors’ post-session risk assessments.

Psychotherapy

Mental-health professionals training to provide talk therapy can sharpen their clinical listening skills by practicing in chatbot sessions with neural conversational agents.

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More than 85,000 workers from Kaiser Permanente are preparing a national strike after contract negotiations stalled July 12. Talks between the workers and the nonprofit healthcare company ended Thursday without a deal.

Droid

Three distinguished thinkers who think a lot on the future are asking some big questions about AI.

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Women are out-earning their male counterparts in the role of chief information officer in the healthcare field, according to a new salary report from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME).

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