Nuralogix Corp.’s Anura Magicmirror seeks to answer questions more important than relative beauty with health insights gained via transdermal optical imaging technology and AI-powered insights into more than 100 health metrics. If Snow White’s stepmother had possessed one, she might have realized that she wasn’t thinking clearly because of mental stress or low blood sugar levels and eaten an unpoisoned apple herself.

In a move that surprised many across the health care sector, the U.K. government decided to scrap NHS England, the body which runs the national health service (NHS), and bring it under the control of ministers. “I don’t see why a decision about £200 billion of taxpayer money on something as fundamental to our security as the NHS should be taken by an arms-length body, NHS England,” said Prime Minister, Keir Starmer.

Three former officials with Magellan Diagnostics Inc., have entered guilty pleas in connection with faulty tests for lead poisoning that were widely used across the U.S. between 2013 and 2017. While former CEO Amy Winslow and two others will not be sentenced until later this year, all three face possible prison terms of three years or more and fines of as much as $250,000, highlighting the hazards of a lack of scruples with regard to compliance with U.S. FDA regulations.

The €1.6 million (US$1.7 million) in seed funding that MSInsight SAS recently raised is vital for the next phase of growth of the company, Arnaud Cutivet, president and co-founder, told BioWorld. MSInsight is developing a software, MSIcare, which uses sequencing technology to detect microsatellite instability (MSI) in solid tumors and liquid biopsies.