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Jeff Bezos started Amazon with his wife MacKenzie. Anita Roddick and Gordon Roddick started The Body Shop.

https://www.aurametrix.com/blog.html A suite of blogs on the latest advancements in technology that are shaping the future. From artificial intelligence and wearables to nano-senso…

4 years ago I uploaded an unlisted video on youtube - video of a medical procedure, esophagogastroduodenoscopy. It did not have any views, I was keeping it just in case I need to s…

Yes, there could be many different scenarios; when vaccine supply is limited, vaccinate those at risk of death. BioNTech claims their vaccine efficacy is consistent across age grou…

I was referring to this paper: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2020/09/27/202...

Pfizer selected New Mexico, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Texas for their pilot delivery program "due to the states' immunization infrastructures, urban and rural variations, size an…

Community medicine; precision medicine - all self-funded.

Connectivity-driven innovation is cheaper. Science is becoming harder and is getting less bang for its buck. We saw great progress in AI over the past few years but even this has t…

Most (if not all) new medicines came out of basic research supported by the NIH. This research was tweaked and patented by companies who profit from selling the drugs. Is start-to-…

You are right, according to medical journal "The Lancet", 85% of (government-funded) research funding is “avoidably wasted across the entire biomedical research range (e.g., clinic…

My grandmother was denied drugs by government-run healthcare and died in severe pain.

Mind uploading predictions are fascinating (Edmond Hamilton, 1936; Isaac Asimov, 1956, 1957; Arthur C. Clarke, 1956; Bertil Mårtensson, 1968). Also predictions about automating bor…

It should be possible, but might take a lot of effort. Smell-detecting dogs are trained from birth to 18 months and it takes another 6 months to specialize them on specific scent l…

Thank you, these are great suggestions.

We are about to start a study to identify what causes flares and remission in a chronic condition. The problem is that about half of people with this condition can't differentiate …

Original article: http://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2139 The authors suggest to introduce an extra field in death certificates indicating if it was a medical error, but the respo…

I suppose applicants with faces judged as competent and dominant (and looking like Zuckerberg, etc) tend to come out on top after video pitches in startup incubator applications.