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CDC inquiry sought on HIV outbreak in West Virginia's largest county

How the DEA is fighting rise in drug trafficking DEA Special Agent in charge Richard Sanchez discusses the increase in drug seizures amid the border crisis. CHARLESTON, W.Va. – U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin on Monday submitted a congressional inquiry with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding an HIV outbreak in West Virginia’s largest […]

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World’s largest transfusion study in cardiac surgery changes transfusion practices

Lower thresholds for blood transfusions for cardiac surgery patients compared to traditional thresholds provide positive patient outcomes and safety at six months after surgery, according to the world’s largest research study on this topic. The research found that in addition to providing good patient outcomes six months after hospital discharge, the lower threshold—known as ‘restrictive […]

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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 […]