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Two-Thirds of Appendectomies May Be Unnecessary

Aesthetics Advisor

Despite such findings, other research 6 suggests prophylactic appendectomy "is ethically justifiable, as there are few complications," and "allows early detection of malignancies." A 2014 study 15 published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons reviewed 77 uncomplicated cases of acute appendicitis that met certain criteria.

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AI in dermatology from a Foundation Year One’s perspective

First Derm

2014 Pizzichetta MA, Talamini R, Stanganelli I, et al. Ethical and Legal Challenges of Artificial Intelligence-Driven Health Care. Deep learning outperformed 136 of 157 dermatologists in a head-to-head dermoscopic melanoma image classification task. Eur J Cancer. 2019) Souza S, Abe JM. Nevus and melanoma paraconsistent classification.

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The Current State of Animal Testing in Beauty - Blog Version

The Eco Well Blog

As far back as 2014, this hasn’t been true. This resulted in the Nuremberg Code: a set of ethical research principles for human experimentation. Ethics board approval requirements in order to start animal testing. In 2014, ECHA clarified that this would not be required if a chemical is exclusively used in cosmetics.

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Omega 7 Fatty Acid: Found to Potentially Kill Cancer Cells (2023)

Aesthetics Advisor

In its “ethics declarations,” the study states that Mr. Chen has patents pending on TVA and TVA derivatives. Another study from 2014 found that TVA exerted a “direct anti-carcinogenic effect” on human breast cancer cells. The work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). and AccuaDX Inc.,

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