Here are seven recent studies and launches illustrating novel applications — some theoretical and some already in use — for machine learning artificial intelligence in clinical settings:

The Washington Post follows a couple from rural Tennessee as they travel to a pop-up clinic for the first medical care they've had in years.

More than 70 health organizations are calling on policymakers and business leaders to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, move to renewable energy and promote behaviors that are good for the climate and public health.

More than half of Democratic presidential candidates want a public option, rather than "Medicare for All," which would require a more extensive overhaul of the healthcare system, according to a survey of candidates conducted by The New York Times.

HHS Secretary Alex Azar denied a report of "frosty" relations between the agency and Trump administration officials in an interview with Fox News reporter Shannon Bream.

Patients heavily colonized with Candida auris can contaminate their surroundings by shedding the deadly fungus from their skin, new research shows.

Researchers have identified a gene that makes the salmonella bacteria resistant to last-resort antibiotics in a human patient in the U.S.

Becker's Hospital Review reported the following recent hospital and health system CFO moves.

A noose was found on an employee's desk June 20 at Michigan Medicine's University Hospital in Ann Arbor, according to CNN.

The cardiovascular disease death rate has fallen by just 4 percent since 2011 after a decrease of over 70 percent in the last six decades, and the death rate rose 1.5 percent for middle-aged Americans, according to CDC statistics cited in The Wall Street Journal.

The FDA has formally ended its Alternative Summary Reporting program, which allowed device manufactures to request exemptions from the requirement to file reports on certain events and risks from devices, according to a news release issued June 21.

It is important that terminal patients be able to choose whether they are informed of their prognosis, BJ Miller, MD, a hospice and palliative care specialist at the University of California San Francisco, and Shoshana Berger, an editorial director at Ideo, wrote in an op-ed for The New York Times.

Due to the uncertainty of Medicare for All, the shift to EHRs and employment in health systems rather then owning a private practice, physicians have started to diversify their backgrounds with MBAs, according to Bloomberg.

Anthem's definitive agreement to acquire Boston-based Beacon Health Options aligns with the importance of behavioral healthcare and provides opportunities to improve patient care, an Anthem leader told Becker's.

For the fifth year in a row, members were more satisfied with Kaiser Foundation Health Plan than with other Medicare Advantage insurers, according to the J.D. Power 2019 Medicare Advantage Study.

Cigna opened an office in Nairobi, Kenya, that will serve as the company's headquarters for its African operations, according to Hapa Kenya.

Cook County (Ill.) Inspector General Patrick Blanchard's office released an investigation report June 21 that challenges the finances and budget practices of Cook County Health system and its insurance program, according to the Chicago Tribune.

The California Department of Public Health collectively issued $437,425 in fines to eight California hospitals for licensing compliance issues that caused or were likely to cause patient harm or death.

The Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge led by health insurers seeking billions in government payments related to the ACA insurance exchanges, according to Politico.

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare entered into a new multiyear agreement with CVS Health-owned Aetna, the companies said June 24.