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2022-07-01 Q&A — Roboticist Bradley Nelson Making microbots smart What would it take to create a truly intelligent microbot, one that can operate independently? A roboticist describes the fascinating minutiae and the medical jobs these tiny machines could do for us. By David Levin In the not-so-distant future, the surgeons who treat our […]
Mental Health Friday 2022-07-01 Today’s Topic: Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder On Mental Health Friday, we post, in alphabetical order, one per week, information on mental health disorders. Mental Health Friday is for informational purposes only, and is in no way meant to diagnose, treat or cure any disease. Please do not self […]
2022-06-30 Government Watchdogs Attack Medicare Advantage for Denying Care and Overcharging Fred Schulte, Kaiser Health News Congress should crack down on Medicare Advantage health plans for seniors that sometimes deny patients vital medical care while overcharging the government billions of dollars every year, government watchdogs told a House panel Tuesday. Witnesses sharply criticized […]
3 Reasons Why Early Risers Can be More Your Successful in Life We all go to bed at night and we all wake up in the morning. Each day you can, seize the day and create your life. Each day you can have a ‘do over’ of sorts. Every morning you have […]
Seven Blocks To Creative Thinking And How To Solve Them We’re all skilled at creative thinking. It is, after all, the predominant way we think as children. The reason we lose the skill as we grow up is because of the blocks we put in the way. In this article I’ll show […]
2022-06-29 His-and-Hers Cataract Surgeries, But His Bill Was 20 Times as Much Angela Hart Photos by Heidi de Marco Danilo Manimtim’s vision was cloudy and blurred — and it was growing worse. The 73-year-old retired orthopedic surgeon in Fresno, California, knew it was time for cataract surgery. “It’s like car tires wearing out […]
Social Security benefits play key role in preventing older Americans from lacking enough quality food Social Security makes it more likely the elderly have enough food. skynesher/E+ via Getty Images Sophie Mitra, Fordham University; Debra Brucker, University of New Hampshire, and Katie Jajtner, University of Wisconsin-Madison The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic […]
The Polluter Just Got a Million-Dollar Fine. That Won’t Cure This Woman’s Rare Cancer. Rhonda Fratzke Credit:Joseph Ross, special to ProPublica by Lisa Song ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Sacrifice Zones Mapping Cancer-Causing Industrial […]
2022-06-28 California May Require Labels on Pot Products to Warn of Mental Health Risks April Dembosky, KQED Liz Kirkaldie’s grandson was near the top of his class in high school and a talented jazz bassist when he started smoking pot. The more serious he got about music, the more serious he got about […]
FEAR AND REASON. “In civilized life it has at last become possible for large numbers of people to pass from the cradle to the grave without ever having had a pang of genuine fear. Many of us need an attack of mental disease to teach us the meaning of the word.” William James. […]