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The planning of U.S. physician shortages (2020)

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A new class of tiny, self-propelled robots that can zip through liquid at speed

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Synthea: Open-source synthetic patient generation

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Who regulates the regulators? We need to go beyond review-and-approval

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Book Review: From Oversight To Overkill

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There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research

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Federal judge overrules NIH veterinarians about lab chimp retirement

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The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea: QR Code Menus

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Scott Alexander's correction on ivermectin and its meaning for the rationalists

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He Was a World Renowned Cancer Researcher. Now He’s Collecting Unemployment

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The madness of reduced medical diagnostics

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Drones have transformed blood delivery in Rwanda

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The illusion of evidence based medicine

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Doctors who use Google Translate to talk to patients want a better option

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Medical student surgically implants Bluetooth into own ear to cheat in final

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Elizabeth Holmes urged employees to hide Theranos’ lab equipment from inspectors

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Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?

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A popular algorithm to predict sepsis misses most cases and sends false alarms

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“AI promised to revolutionize radiology but so far its failing”

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Replaying real life: how the Waymo Driver avoids fatal human crashes

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Our brutal science system almost cost us a pioneer of mRNA vaccines

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Stanford apologizes after vaccine allocation leaves out medical residents

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Notes on My Colon Cancer

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A controversial company using DNA to sketch the faces of criminals

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Portable MRI promises to provide immediate diagnosis in virtually any setting

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Heart doctors 'held back stent death data'

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Harvard scientist is arrested, accused of lying about ties to China

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Team Builds the First Living Robots

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Surgeons withdraw support for heart disease advice

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Doctors are turning to YouTube to fill in gaps in their training

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Ex-FDA Advisor Says of Lasik Eye Surgery: ‘It Should Have Never Been Approved’

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Takotsubo cardiomyopathy triggered by wasabi consumption

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Filthy surgical instruments: a threat in America's operating rooms (2014)

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Robotic thread is designed to slip through the brain's blood vessels

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Nearly 400 medical devices, procedures and practices found ineffective in study

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The ice bucket challenge dramatically accelerated the fight against ALS

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Medicine needs to embrace open source

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Fatal Dose – Radiation Deaths linked to AECL Computer Errors (1994)

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Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, attributed to a checklist

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IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care

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Dutch hospitals to drop U.S. body brokers, cite ethical concerns

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Build a do-it-yourself home air purifier for about $25

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Doctors warn of alarming C-section 'epidemic'

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Researcher at center of epic fraud remains an enigma to those who exposed him

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FDA permits marketing of AI algorithm for detecting wrist fractures

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The Tale of Theranos and the Mysterious Fire Alarm

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Unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically and financially (2015)

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Putting 500k People's DNA Online

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Robot-assisted surgery associated with longer operating times, higher cost

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MIT and IBM establish joint AI research lab

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LSU Sues Elsevier for Breach of Contract

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Scientists make plastic from a sugar and carbon dioxide

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Big Data Coming in Faster Than Biomedical Researchers Can Process It

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We Don’t Need More Blood Tests

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How a Reporter Pierced the Hype Behind Theranos

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John Ioannidis has dedicated his life to quantifying how science is broken

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Theranos Wellness Centers Aren’t Using “Nanotainers” at This Time

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How Theranos Misled Me

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Big data in genomics: The $1k genome has arrived

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The FDA's notes from its visit to Theranos' labs don't look good

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Theranos Trouble: A First Person Account

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The Emerging Field of Health Data Science in Boston

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Registered clinical trials make positive findings vanish

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Blood donors in Sweden get a text message when their blood saves someone's life

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Java 8: Replace traditional for loops with IntStreams

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Cheap Smartphone Dongle Diagnoses HIV And Syphilis

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Duke Officials Silenced Med Student Who Reported Trouble in Anil Potti's Lab

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Java 8: No more loops

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Fatal Dose – Radiation Deaths linked to AECL Computer Errors (1994)

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It’s Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment

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Therac-25

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Scientist who faked data in his thesis will keep his Ph.D.

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A Vital Measure: Your Surgeon’s Skill

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Profit affects doctors' treatment decisions

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Doubts about Johns Hopkins research have gone unanswered, scientist says

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How to stop hospitals from killing us

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How the medical supply industry blocks device startups from selling to hospitals

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Oblivious Supreme Court poised to legalize medical patents

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IBM’s Watson Now A Second-Year Med Student

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Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science

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Bayesians moving from defense to offense

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Everyone hates the electronic medical record

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The King of Curcumin: a case study in consequences of large-scale research fraud

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Mass Retraction of unethical Chinese Forensic Genetics Papers

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The staggering death toll of scientific lies

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