Female obstetricians are less likely than their male colleagues to perform cesarean sections, a review of studies has found. Researchers pooled data from 15 studies from around the world covering more than 1.2 million births supervised by female and male doctors, plus 11 studies that used hypothetical scenarios to assess …
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The Dutch government announced plans this week to allow doctors to end the lives of terminally ill children who are under 13 years old, a decision that is bound to inflame the debate over physician-assisted death. The Netherlands already allows doctors to facilitate the deaths of people who are over …
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When the National Basketball Association announced that it would restart its season in a “bubble” at Walt Disney World in July, Kimberly Caspare, a physical therapist, was on board from the start. She has been working inside the bubble for nearly two months, focused on the Philadelphia 76ers, who made …
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GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now A new HoloLens 2 app uses volumetric capture of a COVID-19 patient, that this is helping doctors and nurses in the U.K. safely identify symptoms. HoloPatient: COVID-19 is a free extension of GIGXR’s HoloPatient platform, produced in …
Read More »Photo by Monkey Business Images / Shutterstock.com We would all like to know where we are most likely to catch the coronavirus. Armed with such knowledge, we could simply make sure we never go there. Now, doctors are describing the places and activities that leave you most vulnerable to catching …
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It picked up the tab at Daniel and Peter Luger, but the inducements for doctors didn’t end with those New York restaurants. There were fishing junkets, golf outings and round-table events at Hooters. And then there were the six-figure honorariums that the Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp. paid to several doctors who …
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Level Ex, the maker of surgery games popular with medical professionals, has released new levels that virtually train doctors to treat patients with COVID-19. The COVID-19 levels are available for free through the Airway Ex and Pulm Ex mobile games on Google Play, coming soon to other platforms. CEO Sam …
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