When Kelli Rowlette submitted her DNA test kit for Ancestry.com, there was no reason to suspect her parentage. But when the test revealed a separate father from her own, her mother recognized the name.
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Swallowing tiny mechanical objects is no longer The Magic School Bus territory. It’s a real-life medical industry that has just begun to explore its potential.
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After decades of research and billions of dollars spent, a new test may offer an inexpensive and highly reliable way to screen for and prevent many types of cancer.
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Believe it or not, surgery has been performed by robots since March of 1997. The robot’s name was Mona, after the Mona Lisa, and the surgery that she/it performed was a gallbladder operation. 21 years later, and progress has been strangely slow. As cited by General Surgery Today, experts blame this slowness on a number of factors, including “technological limitations and questions about its applicability” in medical practice.
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Medical News Today noted in its recent 2018 roundup, one of the site’s most popular topics was intermittent fasting diets. For those who are unfamiliar, an intermittent fasting diet is a diet that includes a regular fasting protocol, where the dieter abstains from all but fluids during a set period of time. And dieters are using this method to gain health benefits that go beyond just fat loss.
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