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Safety, quality and clinical practice

'Reprogrammed' stem cells approved to mend human hearts for the first time | Nature

Scientists in Japan are now allowed to use tissue from induced pluripotent stem cells to regenerate heart muscle in a limited trial. But some ethicists are worried that the benefits of the technique might not be worth it.

Public health

The largest health disparity we don't talk about | The New York Times

In part because doctors sometimes attribute people's physical problems to their mental states and also tend to be pessimistic about the ability of people with mental illnesses to get better, Americans who have depression and other serious mental illnesses die 15 to 30 years earlier than those without those conditions.

Technology

Best Buy is looking into healthcare with an eye toward seniors | CNBC

Best Buy is testing Assured Living, a service for tech-enabled home healthcare.

AI outperforms dermatologists in diagnosing skin cancer | Health Data Management

"These findings show that deep learning convolutional neural networks are capable of outperforming dermatologists, including extensively trained experts, in the task of detecting melanomas," said the author of a study in the Annals of Oncology.

In other news

Your multivitamins aren't helping you live longer | Quartz

"Conclusive evidence for the benefit of any supplement across all dietary backgrounds (including deficiency and sufficiency) was not demonstrated," according to a new meta-analysis of multivitamin studies.