SCAI issues expert consensus on managing patients with out of hospital cardiac arrest

WASHINGTON – The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) has released an expert consensus statement describing recommendations for the management of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). The statement, published today in Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, was presented during the SCAI 2020 Scientific Sessions Virtual Conference. OHCA continues to present as significant public health…

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Duality Technologies researchers accelerate privacy-enhanced collaboration on genomic data

[Newark, New Jersey, May 14, 2020] Duality Technologies, a leading provider of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs), announced today the publication of an article in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America), on Secure large-scale genome-wide association studies using homomorphic encryption. The paper, co-authored by Prof. Shafi Goldwasser, Dr. Marcelo…

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Live Coronavirus News Updates and Full Analysis

Here’s what you need to know: ImageState Street in Madison, Wis., was empty last month after Gov. Tony Evers issued a stay-at-home order.Credit…Steve Apps/Wisconsin State Journal, via Associated Press Wisconsin’s Supreme Court blocks the governor from extending the state’s stay-at-home order. Wisconsin’s Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the extension of a stay-at-home order by Gov.…

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Coronavirus Live: World News Coverage

Here’s what you need to know: Video transcript Back transcript W.H.O. Official Warns That Coronavirus ‘May Never Go Away’ The World Health Organization’s head of health emergencies said the coronavirus causing Covid-19 could become a long-term threat to be managed, not one that can be eradicated. There’s a long, long way to go before there’s…

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Cats Can Transmit the Coronavirus to Each Other, but They Probably Won’t Get Sick From It

Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine and Peter Halfmann of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with other researchers from both the United States and Japan, conducted the study, in which three domestic cats were inoculated with the virus and three additional uninfected cats were put in cages, one with each…

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