This week for the first time, a hospital edited the genes of a patient, hopefully to cure him. 44-year-old Brian Madeux of Pheonix, AZ got an infusion of gene editing liquid at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland this week, as reported by AP.

Others say that as soon as robots finally free us from the slave yoke of salaried labor, we have time to let go of our creativity completely. I see a shortage of audiences to go to all those performances and not enough walls for all the paintings that will be made.

Today, about 80% of infants living in the world’s 73 poorest countries receive routine immunizations, a measure currently assessed by whether they have been given a full course of a vaccine regime to prevent diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus. In 2000, only about 60% received such protection.

We often take it for granted: nurses working fiercely to make things happen, making sure the patient and family are well informed taken care of and assuring everything that can help a solid recovery, or an unavoidable palliative process as humane as possible.

Some patients prefer community hospitals to larger health systems when it comes to seeking medical care because a local organization can offer a personal touch that is hard to come by in large systems. For some, large systems seem impersonal and hard to navigate.

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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German drugmaker Bayer has hired the head of Nestle’s baby food business to help it reverse a drop in revenue from consumer health brands, which often fail to appeal to buyers on Amazon and other online platforms.

There’s been a lot of talk about radiologists being replaced by machines. So I looked up the peer-reviewed publications of #AI companies @enlitic @ZebraMedVision @baylabsinc @ArterysInc @radlogics @IBMWatsonHealth

It’s 7:15 PM, the doorbell rings. Opening the front door I see an ambulance on the front lawn and a crew at my front-door. “Hi sir, we’re here for the cardiac arrest” …me : “there is no cardiac arrest right here!”.