skin color Articles
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USA Today: Images of darker skin are absent from medical texts. Dermatologists are changing that
Nada Elbuluk, MD, MSc, FAAD, speaks to USA Today highlighting the importance of diversity in medical education, as well as Project IMPACT’s and VisualDx’s role in improving health equity. Dr. Nada Elbuluk is a board-certified dermatologist, the director of clinical impact at VisualDx, and founder of Project IMPACT. The highlights: Darker skin is underrepresented in medical ...
By VisualDx
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Mitigating Bias in AI: Holding Innovation to a Higher Standard
When it comes to building equitable, quality AI, prioritizing diverse data sets needs to be embedded in a developer’s DNA – rather than a “nice to have,” it should be a deliberate framework in which AI is built. Before deploying an algorithm to patients, it should be rigorously evaluated under both common and rare scenarios to ensure it performs as intended and ...
By AiCure
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Digital Hearing Aid
Digital hearing aid is a hearing device that receives sound and digitizes it (breaks sound waves up into very small, discrete units) prior to amplification. And digital ear machine built-in intelligence that allows them to discern between soft, but desirable sounds and louder, but unwanted noise. Such digital ear machine can amplify the former while neutralizing the latter for better ...
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Digital Hearing Aid
Digital hearing aid is a hearing device that receives sound and digitizes it (breaks sound waves up into very small, discrete units) prior to amplification. And it built-in intelligence that allows them to discern between soft, but desirable sounds and louder, but unwanted noise. Such digital ear machine can amplify the former while neutralizing the latter for better performance in a variety ...
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Skin Wound Closure Strips
The skin wound closure strip is an adhesive medical tape used to close minor skin incisions.It is designed to bring together the skin on both sides of the wound to facilitate the healing process. These strips are often used as an alternative to sutures or stitches because they not only reduce scarring but are easier to manage and maintain. Different types of wound closure strips are suitable for ...
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IMCAS Americas 2019 Shined in Sunny Cartagena
The third annual IMCAS Americas, held in Cartagena, Colombia in August, attracted a motivated crowd of more than 900 delegates from 30 countries who came to learn and network with colleagues and key opinion leaders. “The congress faculty featured 110 international experts leading 85 scientific sessions for a total of 88 hours of scientific learning dedicated to the most important topics in ...
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Bacterial Coldwater Disease
Synonyms Rainbow Trout Fry Syndrome (RTFS) Bacterial fry anemia Low temperature disease Peduncle disease Saddleback Tail-rot Systemic myxobacteriosis Cause of the Disease Bacterial Coldwater Disease (BCWD) is caused by Flavobacterium psychrophilum, also known as Flexibacter psychrophilus and Cytophaga psychrophila. There may be strain differences among isolates but their importance ...
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Early Detection Saves Lives KBCT Can Help
Despite breast cancer being the second most common cancer for women in the US, progress in the breast imaging space has been stagnant over the last few decades. This is evident in the countless women who are still misdiagnosed – either receiving a false positive or getting diagnosed in the later stages of the disease. Why Early Detection is Important According to the National Breast ...
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Arbutin – Natural Skin Whitener
Skin pigmentation variations and discolorations can appear in the form of various dark spots, due to age, acne scars or other conditions, or obtained as a result of the overexposure to the sun’s harmful UV rays. Sometimes freckles, the small dots of highly concentrated skin pigmentation, could also be undesirable. Skin whitening, lightening and bleaching refer to the use of chemical ...
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Harmful Effects of Arsenic on Human Health
Arsenic can pose a serious risk to your health. It is very important to detect any traces of it and have it removed from your water as soon as possible. Detecting any potential arsenic contamination in your water can ensure that you have a fresh, trustworthy supply to drink from. If you don’t, these are some of the health risks you could experience. Skin Changes Being exposed to arsenic ...
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Harmful Effects of Arsenic on Human Health - Case Study
Arsenic can pose a serious risk to your health. It is very important to detect any traces of it and have it removed from your water as soon as possible. Detecting any potential arsenic contamination in your water can ensure that you have a fresh, trustworthy supply to drink from. If you don’t, these are some of the health risks you could experience. Skin Changes Being exposed to arsenic ...
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