Google is rolling out new AI models for health care. Here’s how doctors are using them

Google is rolling out new AI models for health care. Here’s how doctors are using them

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, speaks on artificial intelligence during a Bruegel think tank conference in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan. 20, 2020. Yves Herman | Reuters Google on Wednesday announced MedLM, a suite of new health-care-specific artificial intelligence models designed to help clinicians and researchers carry out complex studies, summarize doctor-patient interactions and…

Supreme Court agrees to hear showdown over abortion pill access

Supreme Court agrees to hear showdown over abortion pill access

Mifepristone, the first medication in a medical abortion, is prepared for a patient at Alamo Women’s Clinic in Carbondale, Illinois, April 20, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters The Supreme Court on Wednesday took up a high-stakes legal battle that could lead to a definitive decision on whether the drug most commonly used for medication abortions…

Democrats Have A $50 Billion Plan To Ease U.S. Nurse ‘Shortage’

Democrats Have A $50 Billion Plan To Ease U.S. Nurse ‘Shortage’

Congressional Democrats want to pump $50 billion into the training and hiring of more public health nurses ― a cash infusion they say would improve both working conditions for nurses and health outcomes for underserved communities. Lawmakers planned to introduce bills in both the House and Senate on Wednesday to establish a grant program for…

Dengue Cases Explode Thanks To Rising Temperatures

Dengue Cases Explode Thanks To Rising Temperatures

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Dengue is sweeping across the Western Hemisphere in numbers not seen since record-keeping began more than four decades ago, with experts warning that rising temperatures and rapid urbanization are accelerating the pace of infections. A record more than 4 million cases have been reported throughout the Americas and Caribbean…

Texas Woman Who Sued For Emergency Abortion Leaves State As Court Rules Against Her

Texas Woman Who Sued For Emergency Abortion Leaves State As Court Rules Against Her

The Texas Supreme Court permanently blocked a judge’s ruling allowing a Texas woman to have an emergency abortion, just hours after her lawyers said she was forced to travel out of state for the procedure. The court’s seven-page ruling comes days after it temporarily blocked the judge’s decision to let Kate Cox have an abortion….