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FRIDAY JANUARY 3, 2020
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CDC Updates Number Of Vaping Cases
Google AI Could Improve Breast Cancer Detection
(Atlanta, GA) -- The CDC is providing an update on the number of lung injury cases connected to e-cigarettes. The agency announced Tuesday that two-thousand-561 people have been hospitalized. Of those, 55 have passed away in more than two dozen states and Washington, DC. Every state plus two American territories have reported at lease one case. The patients range in age from 13 to 77 years old, but the majority are under 35.
(Mountain View, CA) -- A new study is showing that artificial intelligence could help improve breast cancer detection. The research published in the journal Nature found that technology developed in Google's DeepMind AI unit could identify breast cancer from mammogram images with a similar accuracy as radiologists. The A-I system also reduced the number of false positive results. Researchers credit artificial intelligence with being able to detect subtle cues that the human eye may miss.
Opponents Of AR Abortion Laws Ask For Injunction Extension (Little Rock, AR) -- Pro-choice proponents are asking a federal appeals court to keep an injunction in place preventing three Arkansas abortion laws from going into effect. A federal judge blocked the laws from taking effect while challenges worked their way through the courts. Arkansas's attorney general is fighting that injunction. One law bans doctors from performing abortions on a woman who is 18 weeks or further into the pregnancy. They also require abortion doctors be board certified or board eligible in obstetrics and gynecology and prohibits the procedure if it's due to a fetal diagnosis of Down syndrome.
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Sinai Health System's Data Breach Exposes Info On Thousands (Chicago, IL) -- Sinai Health System in Chicago is dealing with a data breach that may have compromised the personal information of nearly 13-thousand people. Sinai officials are telling the federal government that patients' names, addresses, birth dates, Social Security numbers, health information or insurance information were potentially exposed. The breach happened back in October someone gained unauthorized access to two employee email accounts. Experts say there's no evidence that any of the personal information has been misused.
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