AstraZeneca made waves last week when it signed a massive $ 750 million deal to ramp production of a University of Oxford COVID-19 vaccine up to 2 billion doses per year. Now, as part of a Trump administration effort to get shots into U.S. hands as soon as possible, AstraZeneca has agreed to another major… Read More »
SUNDAY, April 19, 2020 — As governors across America crafted plans to start easing social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. cases topped 728,000 on Sunday while the death toll neared 35,000. But new estimates from Harvard University researchers suggest the United States as a whole cannot safely reopen unless health officials triple the number… Read More »
U.S. life expectancy increased in 2018 after a worrisome four-year decline, a reversal owing in part to a welcome decrease in deaths due to overdose but even more so to a drop in those from cancer. The rise brought the anticipated lifespan of someone born in 2018 to 78.7 years, an increase of about a… Read More »
A third of American hospitals and imaging centers are already implementing artificial intelligence, machine learning or deep learning in radiology. About another third plan on adopting it within the next two years, according to respondents to a survey, the results of which were recently released by an industry research organization. The survey of 207 imaging… Read More »