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05/25/2020

Hot Topics of the Day are picked by experts to capture the latest information and publications on public health genomics and precision health for various diseases and health topics. Sources include published scientific literature, reviews, blogs and popular press articles.

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Health economic evaluation of screening and treating children with familial hypercholesterolemia early in life: Many happy returns on investment?
Z Ademi et al, Atherosclerosis, May 20, 2020

Undiscounted results showed that compared with usual care, cascade screening of ten year-old children for FH and initiation of treatment of affected individuals saved 7.77 LYG and 7.53 QALYs per person over a lifetime. The cascade screening of ten year-old children for FH and initiation of treatment compared to usual case was a cost saving approach.

Public Health Genetics Week, May 26-29, 2020
National Coordinating Center for the Regional Genetics Network, May 26-29, 2020

The National Coordinating Center for the Regional Genetics Network (NCC) is excited to announce the first-ever Public Health Genetics Week from May 26-29, 2020. The goal of Public Health Genetics Week is to both increase awareness about, and to celebrate the efforts of professionals in, public health genetics.

COVID-19 detection from chest X-Ray images using Deep Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks
A Makris et al. MEDRXIV, May 25, 2020

CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND PROGNOSTIC FACTORS FOR ICU ADMISSION OF PATIENTS WITH COVID-19 USING MACHINE LEARNING AND NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
JL Isquierdo et al, MEDRXIV, May 25, 2020

COVID-19 Public Sentiment Insights and Machine Learning for Tweets Classification
J Samuel et al, ARXIV, May 21, 2020

GeoCoV19: A Dataset of Hundreds of Millions of Multilingual COVID-19 Tweets with Location Information
U Qazi et al, ARXIV, May 22, 2020

Clinical and molecular characterization of COVID-19 hospitalized patients
E Benetti et al, MEDRXIV, May 25, 2020

Global Infodemiology of COVID-19: Focus on Google web searches and Instagram hashtags
A Rovetta et al, MEDRXIV, May 25, 2020

Genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Thailand reveals mixed imported populations, a local lineage expansion and a virus with truncated ORF7a
EM Batty et al, MEDRXIV, May 25, 2020

Spread dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in China: a phylogenetic analysis
H Guohu et al, MEDRXIV, May 25, 2020

A pattern categorization of CT findings to predict outcome of COVID-19 pneumonia
C Jin et al, MEDRXIV< May 25, 2020


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