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Florida’s Surgeon General Shows the Danger of Politicizing of MedicineFlorida state surgeon general Joseph Ladapo’s rejection of evidence-based policy stems from political rather than scientific motivations and puts innocent people at riskBy David Robert GrimesFlorida state surgeon general Joseph Ladapo at a press conference held by Governor Ron DeSantis on May 16, 2022, in Sanford, Fla. Credit: NurPhoto SRL/Alamy Stock PhotoAs a measles outbreak tears though Florida, the state’s surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, is openly…

There’s a lot to like about brain-computer interfaces, those sci-fi-sounding devices that jack into your skull and turn neural signals into software commands. Experimental BCIs help paralyzed people communicate, use the internet, and move prosthetic limbs. In recent years, the devices have even gone wireless. If mind-reading computers become part of everyday life, we’ll need doctors to install the tiny electrodes and transmitters that make them work. So if you have steady hands and don’t mind a little blood, being a BCI…

Florida Risks Making a Dangerous Measles Outbreak Much WorseBy ignoring common sense and medical advice, Florida’s health officials risk accelerating a burgeoning measles outbreakBy Katelyn Jetelina & Kristen PanthaganiIllustration of measles virus. Credit: Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty ImagesAn outbreak of measles in Florida has grown to 10 cases. Most have been linked to an elementary school with nearly three dozen unvaccinated students. The count includes seven cases tied to the school, two in the same…

Earth orbit is getting its own space doctor in the form of a small cyborg arm reaching out for the scalpel. A surgical robot is launching to the International Space Station (ISS) to test its ability to slice through human flesh in a microgravity environment. Taking out the Trash (in Space)The robot surgeon is part of NASA’s Northrop Grumman 20th Commercial Resupply Mission to the ISS, which is launching on Tuesday at 12:07 p.m. ET on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The Cygnus spacecraft is packed with more than 8,200…

Bossa Studios--the team behind I Am Bread and the Surgeon Simulator series--has reportedly laid off 19 employees. That is roughly one-third of the company's workforce, with 40 people left to make the cooperative survival-adventure game Lost Skies.GamesIndustry.biz confirmed the firings at Bossa Studios, with co-founder Henrique Olifiers saying the cutbacks are because of a "perfect storm of events." Olifiers cited rising operational costs, funding decisions being pushed back in the industry, and big…

The Dodgers will unwrap their spectacular holiday prize Thursday with the introductory news conference of Shohei Ohtani, the two-way superstar and two-time American League most valuable player. There’s global appeal with the event scheduled for Thursday afternoon because that’s Friday morning for the audience in Japan.Missing from the festivities will be Dodgers team physician Neal ElAttrache, who has a full slate of NFL surgeries to perform.For him, it’s a routine Thursday.“It’s not that I don’t think it’s a monumental…

Terry Gilliam, directorI had this vision of a radio playing exotic music on a beach covered in coal dust, inspired by a visit to the steel town of Port Talbot. Originally the song I had in mind was Ry Cooder’s Maria Elena, but later I changed it to Aquarela do Brasil by Ary Barroso. The idea of someone in an ugly, despairing place dreaming of something hopeful led to Sam Lowry, trapped in his bureaucratic world, escaping into fantasy.Brazil is often described as “a futuristic dystopia”, but I tried to make it clear that…

More than five years ago, Orange County’s top prosecutor stood before the cameras and declared Grant Robicheaux a prolific sex criminal — a hand surgeon accused of weaponizing his looks and reality-TV celebrity to lure women, then drugging and assaulting them. More than a dozen accusers had come forward, the district attorney said, alleging that Robicheaux had left a trove of evidence by videotaping his crimes.The case that began in 2018 with a tabloid frenzy took a wild, twisting road to collapse, ending in a Fullerton…

Surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, who was once hailed as a pioneer of stem cell medicine, was found guilty of gross assault against three of his patients today and sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison by an appeals court in Stockholm. The ruling comes a year after a Swedish district court found Macchiarini guilty of bodily harm in two of the cases and gave him a suspended sentence. After both the prosecution and Macchiarini appealed that ruling, the Svea Court of…

The extensive use of social media is an issue that's discussed among lawmakers, even at the federal level. When TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified in front of Congress, members asked him how his company plans to address the large number of young children on the app who see explicit and harmful content.Also: These are the best smartwatches for kids, according to parentsUS lawmakers have introduced legislation prohibiting children under 13 from creating an account on social media apps. Other bills require parental consent…