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The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has showcased its five key projects on information and communications technology (ICT) for health. (DOST-PCHRD Facebook page) DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña said the ICT for Health program is one of the agency’s research priority ar

VinBrain and FIT Jointly Release a White Paper on Utilizing Artificial Intelligence in Tuberculosis Screening News provided by Share this article HANOI, Vietnam, June 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 10, 2021, VinBrain (Vingroup) and FIT (a German NGO working in the field of Tuberculosis prevention and control) jointly release a white paper on utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) in Tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis and screening in Vietnam. The white paper provides doctors and medical special...

Chest X-rays showed doctors what they were up against. Healthy lungs full of air look black on the image. In Jason Barbosas lungs, inflamed and filled with fluid, it looked like a whiteout.   Barbosa was 24, a dad, a husband and a gym buff who liked to lift weights. He was strong, but he wasnt invincible against COVID-19 and a litany of complications. Doctors had tried everything possible to keep him alive. His ventilator had been turned to the highest setting. It still wasnt enough. Three tim...

The cdc is aware the vitamin e and some vape products is a possible cause of extreme illness in some patients, but so far the cdc is stressing that no single product or substance is being blamed. the cdc says the majority of patients that fall ill are young healthy men. they have sudden trouble breathing, abnormal chest x-rays and a ventilator. a mother and father of one illinois college student said their daughter was on her way back to school in colorado when she had to be rushed to the hospit...

Welcome back to the show. heres to your health. doctors are reporting an uptick in the cases of severe lung disease which they say could be caused by vaping. the most recent update from the cdc in the last week says the agency is aware of at least 193 possible cases in 22 states reported since late june. cnns chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta has the story of one teenagers illness. >> reporter: that 17-year-old a previously healthy athletic teen from texas whose symptoms initially baf...

Executive director of the association for american physicians and surgeons. doctor, you say that despite claims to the contrary, the medical screening is not even close to being sufficient. explain. >> oh, i think that they are not. i think one of the most serious problems is tuberculosis. almost all of the tuberculosis we have in the u.s. now occurs in foreign-born citizens, and the threat of this multiple drug resistance to td or extreme drug-resistant tb is very great. theres not really a sim...

Association for american physicians and surgeons. doctor, you say that despite claims to the contrary, the medical screening is not even close to being sufficient. explain. >> oh, i think that they are not. i think one of the most serious problems is tuberculosis. almost all of the tuberculosis we have in the u.s. now occurs in foreign-born citizens, and the threat of this multiple drug resistance to td or extreme drug-resistant tb is very great. theres not really a simple way of ruling it out. ...

Pushing back as well via twitter my calling bob woodward a liar who is like a democratic operative before the midterm elections. >> reporter: releasing it on 9/11, a lot of people saying that in and of itself. two more us servicemembers identified from remains returned from north korea. their identities remain using dna samples matching chest x-rays. of the 55 boxes handed over by north korea doctors have been sampling 23 of them. this as a second meeting between donald trump and kim jong un is ...

Peace talks with the u.s. according to reuters that could include discussing a possible prirch swap. a state department representative met with taliban officials back in july in hopes of making progress to end the 17-year conflict. the wife of a -- murdered in cold blood is pleading for answers. 21-year-old marine corps sergeant christopher truax found with a gunshot wound to the head inside a parked car in san diego. his wife alexia says she will continue to search for clues as investigators of...

Closure to so many families across the country. 55 sets of remains, some 7,000 plus were hopeful to get that we know of the amazing and the prisoners of war. what is the journey ahead like it how long do you think it will take? >> well, we have really a better way to put this, we have 55 boxes that have remains in them. we are not sure how many individuals this will turn out to be. in the past, we have received large numbers of boxes of remains from north korea, stretched over many years, and wh...