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HANDOFF
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Is the RO Really Necessary?
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The contract battle between United Steelworkers Local 4-200 and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ, continues to heat up. The hospital’s 1,700 unionized nurses have been striking since Aug. 4, and the hospital temporarily suspended healthcare benefits to them on Sept. 1.
Following this outrage, some strikers marched in the hospital’s president and CEO’s hometown. After rejecting a proposed contract and binding arbitration offer, the union got slapped with a temporary restraining order (RO) barring them from obstructive picketing and blocking entrances and exits to parking decks.
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A Push and Prison
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A 36-year-old CNA from Baltimore has been sentenced to 25 years in prison — seven years of which can be served on probation — followed by five years of supervised probation during which she cannot care for vulnerable adults. Obiageriaku Iheanacho pleaded guilty to first-degree assault and abuse of a vulnerable adult in the first degree. She was captured on video pushing an elderly patient with dementia to the ground at the care center. The patient never got out of bed again and eventually died of health complications from the injury and Covid-19.
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More Cancer-Spotting AI
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Google and the Department of Defense have teamed up to build an AI-powered “Augmented Reality Microscope” (ARM) that can identify cancer and flag more aggressive tumor parts. The technology differs from Microsoft and Paige’s digital pathology AI, which requires digitizing a vast amount of data and is meant to serve as a “second line of defense” for pathologists. There are 13 ARMs in existence, and they are undergoing a “huge” amount of testing before being deployed at a cost of $90K–$100K.
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TODAY'S TOP VITAL
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24%
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The percentage of Americans that Pfizer estimates will update their Covid-19 vaccine.
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