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The elephant curve[0] is an interesting quantification of global income changes in the modern era. Notably it represents global incomes so presumably the United States occupies the…

Curiously, 2.4ghz light corresponds to microwaves which is actually long wavelength low energy light. If you have a video stream on while the microwave oven is turned on you'll not…

In cataract surgery there are three main kinds of simulation I'm aware of. 1. Computerized i.e. Eyesi Surgical Simulator 2. Practice surgery with real equipment on synthetic eyes d…

I think we should solve autonomous driving before jumping multiple steps to autonomous surgery. There are many low hanging fruit in the world of automation; automated surgery is no…

These are called accommodating intraocular lenses. This is a fairly active area of research with huge potential but current technology is very limited. As a side note who needs eye…

Most modern airliners are equipped with capabilities to conduct Category IIIa ILS approaches with autoland. One would probably be able to coach a passenger through the steps necess…

Medicare funds medical residency (not the NIH and not the AMA). The 1997 balanced budget act passed by congress limited the expansion of new medical residency training. [0] https:/…

I see this argument made often on HN. I would imagine if we compared software engineering salaries in these same countries you would see that similarly software engineers in the US…

To add to this here's a recent systematic review looking at rates of dog bites by and bite severity by breed. Consistently Pit-bulls and German Shepherds have higher likelihood of …

In fact Uğur Şahin CEO of BioNTech and co-inventor of the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine was recommended by his teacher to attend a hauptschule. If his German neighbor hadn't interve…

This perspective of "the vaccine" may not be the best approach. It might be better to instead say given the choice of Moderna Vaccine vs Pfizer-BioNTech vs Johnson-Johnson etc, whi…

Even if you drive down staff salaries physician, nurse, and everyone else working in the hospital, the profits that are made from those changes would simply be pocketed by the CEOs…

I'm not convinced this specific therapy will remove the side effects. It's still administering the same contents of the pills to your body.

Theoretically this is giving you cells which not only release the medication, but they also manufacture the medication inside the cell. The microchip seems to simply be a control m…

Honestly I think this solves a problem most people don't have. Carrying pills is not that annoying. But if therapies requiring prolonged clinic / hospital visits like chemotherapie…

Before Chicken Pox vaccination was invented people would hold "Pox Parties" to infect and immunize their children at a young age when risk of severe infection was low. https://en.w…

I would point out fear of resistance is not a good reason to withhold vaccination or withhold care. Resistance will always eventually happen through evolution. What's important is …

The issue with plasma donation is that the plasma contains antibodies which are temporary (6ish months). What we want is to elicit a response which produces memory B cells so the v…

Actually this is sort of a thing. For example the polio vaccine has a killed vaccine (analogous to spikes) and a live attenuated vaccine. The live vaccine has higher risk of side e…

From the perspective of a US MD Medical Student. While the match system is certainly imperfect the numbers and points the report makes are either misleading or downright wrong. Fir…

This seems consistent with the fact that Arginine is a conditionally essential amino acid. Our body can naturally make its own Arginine most of the time. When tissues are under inc…

I wouldn't necessarily generalize issues using brew on a mac to issues all package managers on linux. Some of those errors might be attributable to OSX locking down application ins…

Not a lawyer but I've participated in "technology transfer" at a university. At University of Washington one of the standard deals is 27% for the inventors (for patent license reve…