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White House announces plan to reduce gun suicides

(HealthDay)—The Biden administration unveiled a plan on Tuesday that aims to cut gun suicides in the United States. Measures in the plan include creating awareness and training programs and making gun storage more widely available. The effort also seeks to turn back the significant rise in suicides by military personnel and veterans. Federal agencies will […]

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CDC’s Anne Schuchat announces retirement weeks after Messonnier's exit

Outdoor transmission of COVID ‘extremely unlikely’: Practicing internist Dr. Lucy McBride urges parents in new op-ed not to mask their children outside. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is losing another top official as Dr. Anne Schuchat, the agency’s deputy director, announced her retirement on Monday, Fox News confirmed. Schuchat, who appeared at […]

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Egypt announces 2-week, night-time curfew to slow virus

Egypt will impose a two-week, nightly curfew in the Arab world’s most-populous country in an effort to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, its prime minister announced Tuesday as the International Monetary Fund warned that a shortage of medical supplies could affect the Mideast’s poorest nations. There are over 31,000 confirmed cases of the […]

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SPIE journal announces public access to largest multi-lesion medical imaging dataset

A paper published today in the Journal of Medical Imaging – “DeepLesion: Automated mining of large-scale lesion annotations and universal lesion detection with deep learning,—announced the open availability of the largest CT lesion-image database accessible to the public. Such data are the foundations for the training sets of machine-learning algorithms; until now, large-scale annotated radiological […]