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Reliance Industries Ltd chairman Mukesh Ambani and his wife Nita e-launched a book on coronavirus, titled 'The Coronavirus: What You Need To Know About The Global Pandemic', on Saturday via JioMeet. The book has been written by three Indian medical experts and focuses on the history, evolution, facts and myths around the pandemic. One of the authors is Dr Swapneil Parikh, a practising physician in Mumbai and the co-founder of a healthcare start-up. His practice focuses on reversing lifestyle diseases like…

Diana Campion, a nurse practitioner who lives in Florida, recently contemplated going back to bedside nursing part-time. Doing so would require refreshing a skill set she hadn’t used for a few years — titrating intravenous drips and performing other complex nursing tasks involved in managing sick, complicated patients. Given the soaring demand for nurses, it initially seemed worthwhile. But after hearing about the highly publicized verdict handed down in the case of RaDonda Vaught, a Nashville nurse whose…

Tesla has sent some Powerwalls to Ukraine in order to help power some “ambulant clinics” in Irpin and Borodyanka. Power has been unreliable since the Russian invasion – making battery packs like Powerwalls super useful. Mykhailo Fedorov, vice prime minister of Ukraine and minister of digital transformation, announced on Twitter: “Tesla Powerwall tech will power up two ambulant clinics in Irpin and Borodyanka. New solar panels and integrated battery systems will not only use renewable energy, but also store it for…

It goes without saying that surgeons require a very delicate, precise touch. A new set of surgical training gloves were designed with that fact in mind, as they monitor their wearer's hand movements, and provide feedback on their technique.The electronically augmented latex gloves were designed by a team at Australia's Western Sydney University. A third-generation prototype version is currently being trialled by trainee surgeons at Britain's Liverpool Hospital.Each glove incorporates a flexible flat electrical cable…

Most people who use smartwatches and other wearable devices that can track health are white, well-educated, and wealthy. That’s not because other groups aren’t interested in using the devices to keep tabs on their fitness, heart rate, or other metrics, according to a new study. It’s just that the cost of these devices is too high. That leaves lower-income groups and racial minority groups excluded from research studies that use wearable data. The study was conducted by researchers at the All of Us Research Program, an…

If combining NFTs with the medical industry doesn’t sound the most logical, this report from BuzzFeed News will likely confirm your skepticism. An NFT project called MetaDocs assigns doctors / influencers, like Dr. Pimple Popper, to (somewhat unsightly) cartoon personifications of themselves, which users can then purchase to gain access to one-on-one conversations, question-and-answer sessions, or DMs. But despite MetaDocs’ goal of cutting the “red tape” that comes with gaining access to doctors, the MetaDocs…