Mike Lynn, founder and CEO of Hound Labs, said the breath analyzer can detect whether someone has ingested tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, within the past two to three hours, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from California and Massachusetts.
Google has developed an artificial intelligence system that has shown, in some cases, it can detect breast cancer better than radiologists, according to a study published recently in Nature.
A Mayo Clinic analysis of the organization's salary-only compensation model shows that the model helped Mayo reduce gender pay inequity in the vast majority of cases.
Obesity costs the U.S. health care system an estimated $147 billion a year—and those costs will only climb as nearly half of adults are projected to have obesity by 2030, according to a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine. See the latest obesity trends, charted.
Several drugmakers this year already have announced they are increasing the list prices for nearly 450 drugs sold in the United States, according to pharmaceutical companies and analyses of drug pricing data.
As the number of reported vaping-linked lung illnesses has eclipsed 2,500, CDC researchers are narrowing in on a likely cause for the vast majority of cases.
