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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/11/241111123037.htm
"Breakthrough training system opens 'new frontier' in medical robotics"
#robots #medicine #press
Robot that watched surgery videos performs with skill of human doctor, researchers report
A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors, say researchers.ScienceDaily
https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q1169
The policy has two rationales, that tobacco causes enormous harm and that tobacco companies are guilty of systematic #disinformation about that harm.
I hope this is a warning to other companies and industries guilty of deliberate, systematic disinformation about their products.
#Medicine
Protecting BMJ journals’ content from tobacco industry influence
Our updated policy expands restrictions on authors’ links to industry In 2013, the editors of several BMJ journals established a policy that they would not publish research funded partly or wholly by the tobacco industry.The BMJ
Oh, what, it was some other scientists who have been working on brain-computer interfaces for a long, long time? Yes it was.
Veteran science reporters would know the context and include it...but today's news biz isn't interested in all that.
#science #brain #neuroscience #medicine
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/paralyzed-woman-moves-robotic-arm-with-her-thoughts/2012/05/16/gIQAd52hUU_story.html
"More bad news of price gouging by Pfizer," says Eric Topol, right on target again. #Paxlovid #medicine #COVID19
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/16/health/paxlovid-price-expected-to-rise/index.html
Why did people start eating Egyptian mummies? The weird and wild ways mummy fever swept through Europe
Not all doctors thought dry, old mummies made the best medicine. Some doctors believed that fresh meat and blood had a vitality the long-dead lacked.
The claim that fresh was best convinced even the noblest of nobles. England’s King Charles II took medication made from human skulls after suffering a seizure, and, until 1909, physicians commonly used human skulls to treat neurological conditions.
For the royal and social elite, eating mummies seemed a royally appropriate medicine , as doctors claimed mumia was made from pharaohs. Royalty ate royalty.
#history #Egypt #mummy #medicine #europe #european #culture #cannibalism
Why did people start eating Egyptian mummies? The weird and wild ways mummy fever swept through Europe
From unwrapping parties to grinding-up mummies to make medicine, Europe has a long and strange relationship with Ancient Egyptian remains.The Conversation