Rev Invest Clin
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In the past three decades, several technologies designed for other purposes, have been applied in surgery to provide more precision to the surgical procedures and better outcomes. In surgery, innovation requires evidence before widespread implementation of novelties and a continuous quality improvement process to assess benefits and risks. ⋯ Innovation and technology should help to accomplish these conditions, but it must not be the center of surgical practice. We present here our perspective on the main issues related to technology and robotics focusing on evidence-based surgery.
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Since December 2019, when severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 emerged in Wuhan, China, this virus and the resulting disease, coronavirus disease (COVID-19), has spread worldwide. What has occurred in this year and a half goes beyond anything we have dealt with, as humankind, in the past two centuries, perhaps obscured only by war. ⋯ Here, we aim to reflect on the basic structure of the virus and associate its behavior to that of determining factors of the human condition that may be modifiable soon. Needless to say, we find our effort clearly incomplete, and that both scientific and social aspects regarding COVID-19 or any other pandemic encountered in the future, will be constantly changing, from their beginning to their end.
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Historical Article
MY YEARS AS COEDITOR OF THE REVISTA DE INVESTIGACIóN CLíNICA AND THE 1993-1998 READERS OF OUR JOURNAL.
Some information on our readers during my years as coeditor of the Revista de Investigación Clínica are presented on the basis that readers, unlike editors, have no conflict of interest in evaluating scientific publications. The information provided is restricted to the past 6 years (1993-1998) of my 11 years as coeditor since the number of reader visits to our on-line articles began in 1993. ⋯ These figures suggest that our journal became at the end of the 20th Century a valuable information source for physicians in Mexico. It was the original idea that led Salvador Zubirán to launch this journal in 1948.
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Editorial Historical Article
THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES AND NUTRITION SALVADOR ZUBIRáN: A BRIEF JOURNEY THROUGH ITS HISTORY.