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HealthDay News
When Michigan doctors saw a large mass on the face of a fetus late in pregnancy, they feared it might block the baby's airway at birth.
The doctors didn't know what the abnormality was, or if the infant would need lifesaving care in order to breathe.
Use of 3-D printing technology removed the guesswork, the team reported in the Oct. 5 online edition of the journal Pediatrics.
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Medical News Today
When a baby smiles, it is hard not to smile back. Now, with the help of a toddler-like robot, researchers from the University of California-San Diego have shed light on why: Babies time their smiles in order to gain one in return.
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Chicago Tribune
As lawmakers around the country rush to enact legislation requiring providers to notify women if their screening mammograms find dense breast tissue, doctors remain at a loss, unsure how to counsel such women.
Dr. Leonard Berlin, professor of radiology at Rush University and the University of Illinois at Chicago, called the array of state laws "a real conundrum. No one knows exactly what to do with them."
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CNN
 Mia Gonzalez spent the first three and a half years of her life missing out. She had to skip day care and dance classes because she constantly had colds and pneumonia. When she could go out and play, she was easily winded and took multiple asthma medications to try to help her breathing.
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The UAB Mix
When a patient with Ebola-like symptoms arrived at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital's emergency department in early August 2015, a trained team was waiting. It didn't matter that UAB had never admitted an Ebola patient before, or that none of the staff had treated anyone with the highly infectious disease. After an estimated 2,500 hours of training, the hospital's 60-person response team had rehearsed every step.
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The Northerner
Labs that simulate an operating room, mannequins that can be programmed to stop breathing and exam rooms to evaluate standardized patients are all possibilities of the new Health Innovation Center. Students from across several disciplines will benefit from the collaborative spaces of the facility.
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Healthcare Finance News
As surgeons and finance leaders consider adopting robotic technology, more information on costs and benefits makes the decisions more complex.
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palpation skills required to detect small breast lesions and to reduce false positives. Universities and colleges use the MammaCare CBE Simulator-Trainer to validate breast exam competencies. Call MammaCare for a demonstration unit: 352.375.0607 MORE
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Kaiser Health News via Healthcare Finance News
Survey finds that 129 of 140 responding medical schools offered a required course on the cost of healthcare during the 2013-2014 school year.
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Are we living in a simulated reality? Are we merely simulated quantum instances inside a holographic substrate? Is the cosmos an advanced computer simulation created by a future technologically mature human civilization? Who are the original simulators and what are they looking for? Could our reality be the product of a lonely quantum AI machine stranded on the outer edges of our galaxy in the distant future?
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ABC
A computer simulation will be used to help medical staff at the Royal Adelaide Hospital work out how best to transfer patients from the existing hospital site to the new one next year. "We're out to tender at the moment for the computer simulation tool and that will give us the ability to model various scenarios," new RAH program director Graeme McKenzie told 891 ABC Adelaide.
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