peripheral

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Each year in the UK, there are around 100,000 hospital admissions due to heart attacks, another 100,000 people experience a stroke and around 350,000 people live with peripheral arterial disease.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

For decades, U.S. macroeconomic debates treated regulation as a sideshow—important for lawyers, lobbyists, and compliance officers but peripheral to the “real” drivers of economic performance, such as interest rates, deficits, and stimulus.

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026

As part of the project, the researchers are releasing what they describe as the world's largest publicly available collection of peripheral blood smear images, totaling more than half a million samples.

From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2026

The company has said that its nurses were never required to use QuantaFlo and the company expected them to use their judgment in diagnosing peripheral artery disease.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

I tried to take in my surroundings with my peripheral vision.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover