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Front Public Health
January 2025
Institute For Ethics, History, and the Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Introduction: The internet of things (IoT) is increasingly used for occupational safety and health (OSH) purposes in private and public organisations. Current practices and regulations are unclear, and some stakeholders raised concerns about deploying this technology at work.
Methods: Following the PRISMA-ScR checklist, we reviewed the main opportunities and ethical issues raised by using IoT devices for OSH purposes, as discussed in the academic literature.
Scand J Med Sci Sports
January 2025
Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
This essay summarizes and integrates my experiences and observations-starting in the middle 1970s-as an athlete, scientist interested in human performance, biomedical researcher, and "expert," who sometimes advises athletes, coaches, and sports policy-makers. In this context, my focus has been primarily on endurance sports and five concepts underpin what I have learned over the last 50 years. (1) The "competitive significance principle" whereby athletes, coaches, and policy-makers are frequently interested in performance improvements of 1% or less.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChatGPT has the ability to generate human-like text, analyze and understand medical images using natural Language processing (NLP) algorithms. It can generate real-time diagnosis and recognize patterns and learn from previous cases to improve accuracy by combining patient history, symptoms, and image characteristics. It has been used recently for learning about maxillofacial diseases, writing and translating radiology reports, and identifying anatomical landmarks, among other things.
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October 2024
Department of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
December 2024
Leading scientific researcher, Ural Federal University. Yekaterinburg - Russian Federation
The article deals with the representation of illness among Russian Orthodox peasants from the Russian Empire in the nineteenth century. Materials from ethnographic expeditions, folklore, nineteenth-century texts on treatments, memoirs, and publications in the local press are used as sources. Analysis of the sources allowed us to reach the following conclusions: the conception of illness among Russian peasants was constructed by various actors; rural doctors were the least influential among these actors; and illnesses were represented as a consequence of mixing the world of the living and the world of the dead or the action of anthropomorphic or zoomorphic entities, with treatment implying a return to the natural ("correct") order of things.
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