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Jacek Mostwin

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Professor of Urology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore MD 21287

 Baltimore MD USA
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Joined May 2011
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A sunny day in Hiroshima: 75 years of the atom bomb telegraph.co.uk/news/hiroshi… via @telegraph
A sunny day in Hiroshima: 75 years of the atom bomb

A sunny day in Hiroshima: 75 years of the atom bomb

Hear eye-witness accounts of survivors who were on the ground as the atom bomb fell, and learn how they were shunned afterwards. How do new technologies and modern politics make nuclear war more...

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Synthetic biology – The engineering of living organisms could soon start changing everything economist.com/technology-qua…
The engineering of living organisms could soon start changing everything

The engineering of living organisms could soon start changing everything

Synthetic biology has only just begun, says Oliver Morton

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Doctors on TikTok Try to Go Viral nyti.ms/2vGVHDv
Doctors on TikTok Try to Go Viral (Published 2020)

Doctors on TikTok Try to Go Viral (Published 2020)

They have M.D.s, but are they up for this challenge?

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Doctor wanted for remote isle ... fainthearted need not apply theguardian.com/uk-news/2020… Read also John Berger's A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
Doctor wanted for remote isle ... fainthearted need not apply

Doctor wanted for remote isle ... fainthearted need not apply

Colonsay, jewel of the Inner Hebrides, is looking for a new GP. The successful candidate will need a taste for adventure

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GPs vote to scrap home visits from their contracts telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11… via @telegraphnews
GPs vote to scrap home visits from their contracts

GPs vote to scrap home visits from their contracts

Doctors have voted to scrap home visits by GPs, prompting accusations that they are abandoning the frail and elderly.

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'Are we entering a new era of eugenics in which people like me will be edited from the population?' telegraph.co.uk/health-fitne… via @Telegraph
'Are we entering a new era of eugenics in which people like me will be edited from the population?'

'Are we entering a new era of eugenics in which people like me will be edited from the population?'

Adam Pearson believes he would almost certainly have been locked up if he was alive in the first half of the last century.

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How Britain's first heart transplant almost didn't happen due to medical 'rivalries and immense hostility' telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08… via @telegraphnews
How Britain's first heart transplant almost didn't happen due to medical 'rivalries and immense...

How Britain's first heart transplant almost didn't happen due to medical 'rivalries and immense...

On Aug 18 1979 at Papworth hospital near Cambridge, Terence English took a call from a friendly registrar at nearby Addenbrooke's and learnt two equally crucial facts.

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Maths and tech specialists need Hippocratic oath, says academic theguardian.com/science/2019…
Maths and tech specialists need Hippocratic oath, says academic

Maths and tech specialists need Hippocratic oath, says academic

Exclusive: Hannah Fry says ethical pledge needed in tech fields that will shape future

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Eton master who wants pupils to learn very slowly theguardian.com/education/20…
Eton master who wants pupils to learn very slowly

Eton master who wants pupils to learn very slowly

‘Slow education’ should replace the fact-crammed curriculum, argues Mike Grenier. But would this work in the state sector?

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Father in French right-to-die case says removal of son's life support is 'murder' theguardian.com/world/2019/j…
Father in French right-to-die case says removal of son's life support is 'murder'

Father in French right-to-die case says removal of son's life support is 'murder'

Vincent Lambert has been at the centre of a bitter case after becoming severely brain-damaged after car accident

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Cambridge scientists create world’s first living organism with fully redesigned DNA theguardian.com/science/2019…
World’s first living organism with fully redesigned DNA created

World’s first living organism with fully redesigned DNA created

Researchers create altered synthetic genome, in move with potential medical benefits

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Patients' illnesses could soon be diagnosed by AI, NHS leaders say theguardian.com/society/2017…
Patients' illnesses could soon be diagnosed by AI, NHS leaders say

Patients' illnesses could soon be diagnosed by AI, NHS leaders say

Doctors could be replaced by computers in analysing X-rays and samples of diseased tissue amid plans for further investment

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Dossier reveals 'petty tortures' of NHS trainee doctors denied leave theguardian.com/society/2019…
Dossier reveals 'petty tortures' of NHS trainee doctors denied leave

Dossier reveals 'petty tortures' of NHS trainee doctors denied leave

Accounts include medic who was forced to work despite his wife having had a miscarriage

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Anita Silvers, an Authority on Disability Rights, Dies at 78 nyti.ms/2HPB7ou
Anita Silvers, an Authority on Disability Rights, Dies at 78 (Published 2019)

Anita Silvers, an Authority on Disability Rights, Dies at 78 (Published 2019)

A well-regarded philosophy professor, Dr. Silvers knew the subject firsthand, having had polio as a child.

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Opt-out organ donation: Max and Keira's Bill passed into law gov.uk/government/news/opt-o…
Opt-out organ donation: Max and Keira's Bill passed into law

Opt-out organ donation: Max and Keira's Bill passed into law

From 2020, adults in England will be considered potential donors unless they choose to opt out or are excluded.

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Scientists call for global moratorium on gene editing of embryos theguardian.com/science/2019…
Scientists call for global moratorium on gene editing of embryos

Scientists call for global moratorium on gene editing of embryos

Crispr ‘tops list’ of recent scientific discoveries with massive consequences for humanity, says lead proponent

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Results of a new study reveal that children with Down syndrome continue to learn and can attain and improve functional life skills well into adulthood news.harvard.edu/gazette/sto…
Functional skills of those with Down syndrome can improve into adulthood

Functional skills of those with Down syndrome can improve into adulthood

A new study from MassGeneral Hospital for Children looks at how people with Down syndrome continue to learn.

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Jennifer Worth obituary theguardian.com/books/2011/j…
Jennifer Worth obituary

Jennifer Worth obituary

Nurse and author of an acclaimed memoir of 1950s East End life

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Sir David Weatherall, scientist who carried out groundbreaking work in molecular genetics – obituary telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2… via @Telegraph
Sir David Weatherall, scientist who carried out groundbreaking work in molecular genetics – obituary

Sir David Weatherall, scientist who carried out groundbreaking work in molecular genetics – obituary

Sir David Weatherall, who has died aged 85, was one of the world’s experts on the genetics of thalassaemia, a group of inherited blood disorders which affect red blood cells and can be life-threate...

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Irish hospital staff told to stop calling patients 'love' or 'dear' theguardian.com/world/2018/d…
Irish hospital staff told to stop calling patients 'love' or 'dear'

Irish hospital staff told to stop calling patients 'love' or 'dear'

Health service says pet names should no longer be used so care is more ‘person-centred’

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