Researchers in Italy have demonstrated a no-cost, AI-based technique for detecting the presence of previously undiagnosed abnormalities in blood sugar stability.

If verified in additional trials, the advance will facilitate care planning much earlier than the current average age of diagnosis, 4 years old.

The machine learning-based method can ensure clinicians keep pace with the growing number of people presenting with more than one lung abnormality.

The systematic review, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, included 13 different studies published from 2009 to 2019. 

CVS Health, which owns health insurance giant Aetna, will return to the Obamacare marketplace to sell individual insurance plans in 2022, the company announced during a fourth-quarter earnings call.

AI can be taught to flag possible skin cancers on photos taken with smartphone cameras—and the images can be ordinary “people shots” rather than closeups of suspicious lesions.

Lown was an innovator in the field of arrhythmia research and led the development of the direct current defibrillator. He also helped found an organization that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. 

Health insurance giant Humana is joining forces with IBM Watson to equip Humana’s Employer Group members with a conversational AI solution.