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• The new da Vinci SP (single port) surgical system has now been in use since May 21, making complex surgery even less invasive, via a single incision.
• It was on May 27 that a world first took place at the hospital: a kidney autotransplantation assisted by the da Vinci SP surgical system.
• The arrival of Intuitive’s new da Vinci SP system aligns perfectly with Maria Middelares' vision of developing a patient-oriented robotics platform.
• The da Vinci SP offers incredible value on a daily basis for Maria Middelares and its patients.

• Furiosa in Fury Road, played by Charlize Theron, represented a more inclusive form of heroism – a postfeminist celebration of teamwork.
• Furiosa promised to give us the impairment origin story and explain the experiences that shaped Furiosa to become the strong, disabled female leader in Fury Road.

Haunted by the past

• In the 1979 first film, Max recognises his emerging, vengeful mania, saying spending too much time on the road will make him “a terminal crazy”.
• As Max further withdraws from society, the films chronicle patriarchy at its extremes, and the breakdown of post-apocalyptic society.
• By Fury Road, Max (Tom Hardy) is artfully shown suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, repeatedly haunted by guilt and experiencing hallucinations.
• Powerfully, also in Fury Road, the cause of Furiosa’s disability is neither revealed nor spoken of.

A narrative prosthesis

• When disability is used as a narrative prosthesis, the story focuses on disability as a tragedy, or on overcoming the tragedy of an impaired body.
• This focus comes at the expense of representations of disability and trauma explored throughout the previous films’ subtexts.
• The characters with disabled and ageing bodies hold the promise for a new beginning, suggesting alternatives to violent, despotic overlords.
• Such arresting imagery only serves to emphasise the former film’s potency and resonance at the expense of the latter.

• The study achieved all primary safety and effectiveness endpoints, and ARC-EX Therapy demonstrated significant improvements in upper limb strength, function, and sensation among people with chronic tetraplegia due to cervical SCI.
• Notably, the number of responders increased to 90% when the definition included participants with improvements in at least one strength or functional outcome*.
• 87% of participants reported that ARC-EX Therapy delivered improvements in overall quality of life*.
• “Improvement in arm and hand function is among the highest priorities for people with tetraplegia3 who have endured far too long without effective therapies for functional recovery,” said Dave Marver, CEO, ONWARD Medical.

• OKX today announced the launch of its 'NOT Trade and Earn' campaign featuring a 300 million NOT prize pool.
• This campaign, coupled with the recent addition of Notcoin on OKX's Jumpstart and spot market, aims to offer more ways for eligible users to interact with the Notcoin ecosystem, which already boasts 35 million members.
• OKX also partnered with Notcoin to launch a 'NOT Learn and Earn' campaign earlier this week.
• Far from being your typical GameFi project, Notcoin is TON's clicker game that has achieved viral status within the Telegram ecosystem.