It’s difficult, often impossible, to uncover the cause of a birth-defect cluster. But the task is made tougher in Washington state and across the U.S. by a scattershot system that doesn’t routinely or ...

The automatic detection of surface-level irregularities—defects or anomalies—in 3D data is of significant interest for ...

Couples in south central Washington face a difficult reality. They are four times more likely to conceive a child with a fatal birth defect. Since 2010, 31 babies in Yakima, Benton and Franklin ...

It has been three years since a nurse alerted state health officials to an alarming coincidence she saw at Prosser Memorial Hospital, and questions surrounding those circumstances still remain. Sara ...

A new technical paper titled “DECOR: Deep Embedding Clustering with Orientation Robustness” was published by researchers at Oregon State University and Micron Technology. “In semiconductor ...

YAKIMA — After a nearly two-year investigation, the state Department of Health has concluded that there was no sole factor to blame for a cluster of fatal birth defects in Yakima and neighboring ...

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - State health officials investigating a cluster of fatal birth defects in central Washington have not been able to identify a cause for most of the cases. The Yakima ...

It’s difficult, often impossible, to uncover the cause of a birth-defect cluster. But the task is made tougher in Washington state and across the U.S. by a scattershot system that doesn’t routinely or ...