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Low cost chlorine dispensing device improves tap water safety in low-resource regions

NewsemiaJanuary 14, 2021

by NewsemiaJanuary 14, 2021012

Engineers invent device that requires no electricity or moving parts, lets users collect water as they usually do Credit: Amy Pickering MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE (January 14, 2021)...

Surgery/Cosmetic

Smile Train and Lifebox Partner on Safer Surgery and Anesthesia Initiative in Low-Resource Countries

NewsemiaDecember 10, 2020

by NewsemiaDecember 10, 202001

Cleft organization Smile Train announces the Safe Surgery and Anesthesia Initiative in partnership with Lifebox, a global nonprofit organization that aims to make surgery safer in low-resource settings....

AI/ML

Quantitative Screening of Cervical Cancers for Low-Resource Settings: Pilot Study of Smartphone-Based Endoscopic Visual Inspection After Acetic Acid Using Machine Learning Techniques.

NewsemiaMarch 12, 2020

by NewsemiaMarch 12, 2020016

Related Articles Quantitative Screening of Cervical Cancers for Low-Resource Settings: Pilot Study of Smartphone-Based Endoscopic Visual Inspection After Acetic Acid Using Machine Learning Techniques. JMIR...

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Carbon Dioxide-Based Cancer Cryoablation Probe for Low-Resource Regions

NewsemiaJuly 16, 2019

by NewsemiaJuly 16, 2019016

Undergraduate researchers at John Hopkins University have developed a cryoablation probe for breast cancer, which uses carbon dioxide instead of argon, making it more affordable...

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Low Cost Medical Devices for Low-Resource Regions: Interview with Prof. Saad Bhamla, Georgia Tech

NewsemiaJuly 1, 2019

by NewsemiaJuly 1, 2019010

Advances in medical technology continue apace, with sophisticated new medical devices and therapies becoming available on an ongoing basis. However, medical technology often comes at...

Pediatrics

A Novel Icterometer for Hyperbilirubinemia Screening in Low-Resource Settings

NewsemiaMay 13, 2019

by NewsemiaMay 13, 201908

BACKGROUND: Severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia (>20 mg/dL) affects ~1 million infants annually. Improved jaundice screening in low-income countries is needed to prevent bilirubin encephalopathy and mortality....

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Inexpensive DNA test can effectively screen women for cervical cancer in low-resource settings

NewsemiaMay 4, 2019

by NewsemiaMay 4, 2019024

Cervical cancer is a major issue in low- and middle-income countries due to the lack of adequate screening such as routine Pap smear testing. Source...

Cardiology

Impact of heart disease on maternal, fetal and neonatal outcomes in a low-resource setting

NewsemiaMay 1, 2019

by NewsemiaMay 1, 2019010

Background The burden of pre-existing cardiovascular disease and the contribution to adverse pregnancy outcomes are not robustly quantified, particularly in low-income countries. We aimed to...

AI/ML

A Grounded Unsupervised Universal Part-of-Speech Tagger for Low-Resource Languages. (arXiv:1904.05426v1 [cs.CL])

NewsemiaApril 14, 2019

by NewsemiaApril 14, 2019012

Unsupervised part of speech (POS) tagging is often framed as a clustering problem, but practical taggers need to textit{ground} their clusters as well. Grounding generally...

AI/ML

Improving preterm newborn identification in low-resource settings with machine learning.

NewsemiaFebruary 28, 2019

by NewsemiaFebruary 28, 2019014

Related Articles Improving preterm newborn identification in low-resource settings with machine learning. PLoS One. 2019;14(2):e0198919 Authors: Rittenhouse KJ, Vwalika B, Keil A, Winston J, Stoner...

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QIAGEN to Develop QuantiFERON®-TB Access as a New Test for Low-Resource, High-Burden Regions in Global Fight Against TB

NewsemiaJanuary 7, 2019

by NewsemiaJanuary 7, 2019016

HILDEN, Germany & GERMANTOWN, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–lt;a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24QGEN&src=ctag" target="_blank"gt;$QGENlt;/agt;–QIAGEN to develop QuantiFERON®-TB Access as a new test for low-resource, high-burden regions in global fight against TB...

AI/ML

Low-Resource NMT Awards

NewsemiaJuly 24, 2018

by NewsemiaJuly 24, 2018017

Facebook is pleased to announce the research award recipients for the Low-resource Neural Machine Translation (NMT) call for proposals. This effort is expected to contribute...

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Machine-learning algorithm that can improve the diagnostic…

A global horizon scan of the future…

Characteristics of strokes associated with centrifugal flow…

Eliminating microplastics in wastewater directly at the…

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Deep learning-based reconstruction in ultra-high-resolution computed tomography:…

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Low cost chlorine dispensing device improves tap water safety in low-resource regions

Smile Train and Lifebox Partner on Safer Surgery and Anesthesia Initiative in Low-Resource Countries

Quantitative Screening of Cervical Cancers for Low-Resource Settings: Pilot Study of Smartphone-Based Endoscopic Visual Inspection After Acetic Acid Using Machine Learning Techniques.

Carbon Dioxide-Based Cancer Cryoablation Probe for Low-Resource Regions

Low Cost Medical Devices for Low-Resource Regions: Interview with Prof. Saad Bhamla, Georgia Tech

A Novel Icterometer for Hyperbilirubinemia Screening in Low-Resource Settings

Inexpensive DNA test can effectively screen women for cervical cancer in low-resource settings

Impact of heart disease on maternal, fetal and neonatal outcomes in a low-resource setting

A Grounded Unsupervised Universal Part-of-Speech Tagger for Low-Resource Languages. (arXiv:1904.05426v1 [cs.CL])

Improving preterm newborn identification in low-resource settings with machine learning.

QIAGEN to Develop QuantiFERON®-TB Access as a New Test for Low-Resource, High-Burden Regions in Global Fight Against TB

Low-Resource NMT Awards