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How can we be sure artificial intelligence is safe for medical use?

How can we be sure artificial intelligence is safe for medical use?

Software that can replace doctors for certain tasks has a big responsibility. The Food and Drug Administration is now figuring out how to determine when computer algorithms are safe and effective.
by Richard Harris

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How one mother's battle is changing police training on disabilities

How one mother's battle is changing police training on disabilities

Patti Saylor's son Ethan, who had Down syndrome, died after an encounter with law enforcement when he was 26. She believes his death could have been prevented with better police training.
by Meg Anderson

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Mother of a son with autism thanks a stranger who helped: 'Nobody does what you do'

Mother of a son with autism thanks a stranger who helped: 'Nobody does what you do'

At StoryCorps, Ellen Hughes tells Keith Miller, who also has a son with autism, how much it meant to her when he comforted her son Walker on a difficult visit to the ER last year.
by Lindsey Feingold and Aisha Turner

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Swallowed toys, coins, batteries spark rise in tot ER visits

Swallowed toys, coins, batteries spark rise in tot ER visits

In 2015, there were nearly 43,000 such visits among kids under 6, compared with 22,000 in 1995, according to a study published Friday in the journal Pediatrics. The rate jumped from almost 10 per 10,000 ER visits to 18 per 10,000.
by The Associated Press

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A mother of a son with autism thanks a stranger who helped: 'Nobody does what you do'

A mother of a son with autism thanks a stranger who helped: 'Nobody does what you do'

At StoryCorps, Ellen Hughes tells Keith Miller, who also has a son with autism, how much it meant to her when he comforted her son Walker on a difficult visit to the ER last year.
by Lindsey Feingold and Aisha Turner

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Minnesota records first pediatric flu death this season

Minnesota records first pediatric flu death this season

Officials haven't released information on the age of the child or the region of the state where the flu-related death occurred.
by Nina Moini

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Feds charge 24 in alleged $1.2 billion Medicare fraud scheme

Feds charge 24 in alleged $1.2 billion Medicare fraud scheme

Prosecutors allege doctors got kickbacks for prescribing unneeded back, shoulder, wrist and knee braces to elderly and disabled patients and charging the government's Medicare program.
by James Doubek

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