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July 24 , 2020
New study explains how the Warsaw Ghetto beat typhus
- New modeling of typhus infections in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII reveals how public health interventions eradicated the disease.
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July 24 , 2020
Google AI outperforms general pathologists at validating Gleason grading of prostate cancer biopsies
- A team of researchers from Google Health, working with others from institutions across the U.S. and Canada has found that a Google AI system was able to outperform general pathologists when validating Gleason grading of prostate cancer biopsies. In their paper published in JAMA Oncology, the group describes two major experiments they conducted that compared
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July 23 , 2020
Battle royale: How bacteria fight antibiotics and up the ante in chemical warfare
- Inadequate development of new antibiotics and rising rates of resistance by bacteria to existing antimicrobials are dual forces pushing the world ever closer to a post-antibiotic era.
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July 23 , 2020
Lung ultrasound shows duration, severity of coronavirus disease
- According to an open-access article published in ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), lung ultrasound (US) was highly sensitive for detecting abnormalities in patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19), with B-lines, a thickened pleural line, and pulmonary consolidation the most commonly observed features.
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July 22 , 2020
Researchers track down metabolic enzyme that protects against inflammation
- Scrape your knee, and you'll see some red puffiness appear around the injury. This is inflammation, and it is driven by the immune system.
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