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Who is Dr Naismith and what has he in common with Kobe Bryant, Sue Bird, Magic Johnson, Diana Taurasi, Steve Nash, and Maya Moore? These men and women are some of the best basketball players in the sport’s history, and Dr Naismith was the inventor of the game of “basket ball” 130 years ago, in 1891.

The following 10 medical innovations are anticipated to make a significant difference in medical care in 2021. They were recently announced at the Cleveland Clinic’s 2020 Medical Innovation Summit. In its 18th year, the summit is organized by Cleveland Clinical Innovations, the clinic’s development and commercialization arm. 

The Lancet is one of my favorite medical journals. I read it every week, like I read the Economist. The journal was started as a weekly general medical magazine in 1823 by Thomas Wakely (1795–1862) who became a surgeon by age 22, and in his colorful lifetime was also well known as a member of parliament and an active social reformer. Over the years, Wakely’s journal became known for its correspondence and editorial pages, bringing controversial subjects to the fore. 

With or without our pandemic-related social isolation, individual attitudes about intimate self- or partner-stimulation vary wildly. Some people privately accept masturbation but ridicule it publicly, or attach some degree of shame or guilt to the activity. It is in this context that I appreciated the straightforward clarity and frankness of the BC Centre for Disease Control’s message for us: “You are your safest sex partner.

Color can sway our mood, alter our emotional perception, and affect our productivity. Colors can also elicit specific responses—red can provoke sexual drive or create a feeling of intimidation; blue can stoke intellectual abilities and mental faculties and affect sleep urge patterns.[1] Colors have other perceptual properties too; for example, certain colors give a false sense of increased space, a phenomenon often exploited in architecture and design.[2,3]