The Biden administration has backed the waiving of intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines, supporting a proposal from the World Trade Organization to improve worldwide vaccinations against the deadly virus.

A new analysis reveals that most physicians were not working in private practices in 2020, marking the first time this category dropped below 50%.

If two regional studies published May 3 are reflective of all U.S. healthcare workers’ attitudes toward the present pandemic, facemask wearing is spotty and vaccination rates are more variable by demographics and attitudes than access.

After analyzing public records requested from the CDC plus all 50 states and other administering bodies, KHN investigators are estimating more than 200,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been deep-sixed at jab sites.

The FDA has granted 510(k) clearance to a French startup for surgery software that combines AI with augmented reality and computer vision.

Yale researchers have demonstrated a machine learning tool for choosing between coronary imaging and stress testing in patients who present with suspected coronary artery disease.  

Forbes is out with its third annual AI 50, and almost a fifth of the field works in healthcare.

Biases in algorithms can have critical implications for minority patients, which is why IBM Research and Watson Health sought out to examine the best methods for addressing this problem.

Steve Cashman has been named CEO and president of the Brisbane, California-based organization, effective April 14.

As more AI devices come to market, how they're regulated and approved should be re-examined, Stanford researchers say.