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Marketing Push Boosts San Diego As Medical Tourism Hot Spot
The effort aims to build out the infrastructure necessary to attract patients to the city for surgeries and other medical treatment.
A Surgeon Who Also Pierces Ears — For $1,877: Examining Wasteful Use Of Medical Care
ProPublica continues its investigation of unnecessary medical treatments and their role in driving up the cost of health care. And Stat looks at how the “value” movement is reshaping the health industry, and a New Hampshire doctor raises questions around electronic record keeping.
Supercomputers Can Slash Cancer Drug Development Timelines, Bay Area Researchers Say
“There’s been a revolution in machine learning,” says Jim Brase, the deputy associate director for computation at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In other news impacting the California medical landscape: the benefits of a nursing Ph.D.
‘DNA Surgery’: Scientists Try Gene Editing In Human Embryos
NPR goes inside the lab that is working on embryonic research. In other public health news today are developments related to nicotine addiction, HIV and aid-in-dying.
