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. 2006 Dec 23;333(7582):1308-11.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.39049.453877.BE.

Startling technologies promise to transform medicine

C Donald Combs  1
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Startling technologies promise to transform medicine

C Donald Combs. BMJ. .
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Competing interests. None declared.

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Fig 1 The LifeShirt system is a non-invasive, continuous ambulatory monitoring system that collects data on pulmonary, cardiac, and other physiological data and correlate them over time
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Fig 2 Skin culture. A layer of artificial human epidermis that has been cultured by seeding epidermal cells on to a small sample of human dermis
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Fig 3 The da Vinci surgical system, which allows the surgeon to do laparoscopic surgery using robotic arms while looking at a three dimensional image from cameras inserted into the patient
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