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Dr. Gaetano Santulli is a physician scientist (cardiologist) working at Columbia University Medical Center in New York (NY). He earned his MD and PhD from the University of Naples “Federico II”, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University. He has expertise in both clinical and basic research. His research interests include heart failure [1-3], diabetes mellitus [4, 5], adrenerg...

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Of all the fields of modern technology, robotics is likely to be one of the most influential in changing the very nature of our society. In the past, the term "robot" has tended to conjure up pictures of automatonlike machines, often seen as a threat to people themselves. The concept of the robot goes back many decades, but-with the introduction of modern microelectronics the whole field of rob...

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vices to health services with patients falling through the gap which has been created.'4 A recent House of Commons committee report highlighted the potential conflict explicit in the reforms between the downward pressure on the budget of social care (previously there was an open-ended commitment to those claiming income support) and the increasing demand on services resulting from detailed asse...

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The last major review of medical education in Great Britain conducted by the Royal Commission’ makes no mention of gerontology as a relevant subject, and geriatric services are seen mainly as a development of general practice. It is remarkable therefore that less than 15 years after the publication of the Commission’s report a conference of teachers of geriatric medicine should be able to note’...