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May 6, 2021 8:06 AM
The beginning of another growing season and the end of school means many children and young adults will soon play a more active role in their family farms, or as hired help.
Balanced against the positives of children doing farm work (such as development of work ethic and self-esteem, earned money) there are serious risks. During the past decade, more youth have died working in agriculture than all other industries combined.
Three new safety resource booklets covering farm equipment operation, working with animals and gardening provide guidelines that can help adults assign age- and ability-appropriate tasks to young people.
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NEW YORK, NY Diagnosing chronic kidney disease, which is often undetected until it causes irreversible damage, may soon become automated with a new algorithm that interprets data from electronic medical records.
The algorithm, developed by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, automatically scours a patient s electronic medical record for results of blood and urine tests and, using a mix of established equations and machine learning to process the data, can alert physicians to patients in the earliest stages of chronic kidney disease.
A study of the algorithm was published in the journal
npj Digital Medicine in April.