A Google-affiliated company is taking on clinical trials with the pharmaceutical industry, CNBC reported. The health and life sciences business of Google’s parent company Alphabet has launched strategic alliances with Novartis, Sanofi, Otsuka and Pfizer to work in the medical studies space.

Deep learning can help diagnose skin cancer with high accuracy even when it has only low-tech dermoscopic images to work with, according to research conducted in Israel and published in The Lancet’s online journal eBioMedicine.

An AI algorithm created by Google can predict lung cancer with high accuracy and improve the survival chances of those with the cancer through earlier diagnosis, according to a recent study. The findings were published in Nature Medicine on May 20.

People who struggle to get a good night’s sleep and seek medical help for the problem are producing mega data on things like eye movement, breathing, brain activity and restless legs. Which is to say sleep medicine is as ripe as any field in healthcare for help from AI.

A Colorado teenager has won $75,000 for his machine learning and computer vision project that helps orthopedic surgeons improve the accuracy of screw placement during spinal surgery.

Contrary to common understanding, sepsis is not a one-size-afflicts-all condition. It’s a set of many, and each can be placed into one of four key subcategories—i.e., phenotypes—such that, going forward, stricken patients could receive tailored treatments.

Researchers say such misnomers could have major policy implications, especially in an increasingly value-based landscape.

A natural language processing algorithm has achieved 90% precision in automatically spotting signs of social isolation in cancer patients by “reading” clinical notes in a hospital’s electronic health record.