AHA, others urge more COVID care for the underserved | Who should pay for COVID screening? | Wide-ranging COVID Q&A

CEOs with the American Hospital Association, American Medical Association and American Nurses Association underscored the pandemic’s outsized impact on people of color in a letter to lawmakers sent Friday. 

Where policy on coverage for COVID testing meets real people, the intended effect is snagging on two words: “medically appropriate.”

What are the odds of getting exposed to COVID-19 at a supermarket versus at a restaurant seating customers at every other table? The consensus answer from numerous authoritative voices may surprise you.

Most C-level leaders working in healthcare believe the COVID-19 crisis will come to a close. However, they’re sharply divided over timing.  

The vast majority of patients with suspected melanoma—94%—would welcome the use of AI as an augmenter of their dermatologist’s diagnostic skills. And more than 40% would trust their diagnosis to a standalone AI system.  

The model sits at approximately 1.5 cm long and offers researchers a new way to observe the heart in motion.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers described their findings as a "potent" first step forward in using oncology-based approaches to combat the virus.

Weill Cornell Medicine's Marc Schiffman, MD, and a colleague came up with the idea after finding that video chats were too depressing for families and time-consuming for nurses.