In 2005, the CDC recommended that if a women arrives in labor in the emergency room and has not had prenatal care, a rapid, 20-minute test for HIV should be done so preventive treatment can be started immediately.

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We need to build on the efforts of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence, based in Tallinn, Estonia, which conducts research, training and regular exercises to test the rapid-response capabilities of allied cyber-units.

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He's attacking rocketry the way he would assemble software: design, build, test and repeat in rapid-fire succession to quickly determine what works and what doesn't.

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During that era of rapid innovation, lives were sacrificed -- by test pilots in space and Gemini astronauts on the ground -- but the space program moved ahead at light speed.

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The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle is led by the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, and is designed to demonstrate reusable spacecraft technologies for America's future in space and operating experiments which can be returned to, and examined, on Earth.

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The sleep test also was normal, except for a delayed onset of rapid-eye-movement sleep, with unknown medical significance.

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The EU test results will be fed into the 27-nation bloc's rapid alert system for food safety.

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England fans will remember his two career highlights: a Test century in Antigua in 1998 that set up a 3-1 series victory and a rapid 119 in the one-day series that followed.

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For one thing, this kind of high-speed innovation seems to require a near-addiction to a rapid flow of data that everyone can agree on, with a good feedback loop to test ideas.

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