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    There’s never been a house call quite like this. In a first for telepresence communication, a NASA flight surgeon was ‘holoported’ to the International Space Station (ISS), appearing and conversing as a virtual presence in real time, hundreds of mile

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    • Great technological achievement that has not much practical use in medicine. Maybe the patient feels better by "seeing" the bad quality holograms of their doctors, but the doctor cannot see the patient as they should therefore it's simply not useful. https://t.co/zInDRacBJw

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    If you need another reason to make sure you’re getting a decent amount of shut-eye each night, a new study found insufficient sleep is linked with an increase in fat accumulation – especially unhealthy abdominal fat in the belly.

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    • "This [study] suggests that inadequate sleep is a previously unrecognized trigger for visceral fat deposition + that catch-up sleep does not reverse the visceral fat accumulation" - Dr. Virend Somers from @MayoClinic. #JACC https://t.co/Gt9PbmOufO @ScienceAlert