S.C. teachers eligible for COVID-19 vaccine in Phase 1B
S.C. teachers eligible for COVID-19 vaccine in Phase 1B By Kristen Rary | March 2, 2021 at 4:01 PM EST - Updated March 2 at 5:47 PM
SOUTH CAROLINA (WTOC) - Now that South Carolina has entered Phase 1B of the COVID-19 vaccine roll out, teachers are officially included in the eligibility to be vaccinated.
Every single day teachers show up to school, go into the buildings, and go into classrooms full of students to help them prepare for the future. And now, they can do so with an extra level of safety.
“I think it’s a good idea. Especially for teachers. You know, we are in a hot zone,” said drivers education teacher Mike Paul.
Study Training Dogs To Detect Prostate Cancer Gets One Paw Closer To A Robotic Nose To Diagnose The Disease, Including Most Lethal Form
A study by Medical Detection Dogs, the Prostate Cancer Foundation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Johns Hopkins University combined three current methods of diagnosing the disease for the first time to detect prostate cancer early
Larger-scale studies planned to develop a machine olfaction diagnostic tool - a robotic nose - that may ultimately be a smartphone app of the future; MIT developing prototype
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MILTON KEYNES, England and LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ New research from a multi-national, cross-disciplinary team of scientists from Medical Detection Dogs (MDD) in the UK, the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Johns Hopkins University – and a friendly pair of specially trained cancer-sniffing dogs at MDD – has
A 4-year-old Labrador and a 7-year-old Vizsla were trained to detect the odor of prostate cancer in urine samples collected from patients with the disease, including Gleason 9 prostate cancer the most lethal tumors that would benefit the most from early detection.
Results showed the dogs correctly identified positive samples 71% of the time, and correctly ignored negative samples including those with other diseases 70% to 76% of the time. The dogs also correctly identified when 73% of blinded patient samples did not have the disease, which compares favorably to the most commonly used prostate cancer test, the PSA blood test. This study showed that a dog s nose could hold the key to an urgently needed, more accurate, and non-invasive method of early prostate cancer diagnosis, said Claire Guest of Medical Detection Dogs, lead author of the study. …. This has enormous potential and in time the ability of the dogs nose could be translated to an electronic device.
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A historically-significant artifact depicting three figures has returned home to Temagami First Nation after going missing decades ago.
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In a collaborative effort among Temagami First Nation, Ontario Power Generation (OPG), Sault Ste. Marie Museum and Woodland Heritage Northeast, the historical pictograph was repatriated to Bear Island just before Christmas.
Robin Koistinen, Temagami First Nation’s director of lands and resources, says she had known about the missing pictograph for 25 years and tried to locate it numerous times.