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• Due to the advanced health monitoring features found in the devices, the wearable technology market is now playing an important role in the medical sector as well.
• In recent years, the devices have allowed healthcare providers to remotely monitor a patient's various physiological parameters.
• Nemaura Medical Inc. (NASDAQ: NMRD) announced breaking news earlier this week regarding, "interim results from its metabolic health program.
• The high medical needs designation in Japan is granted to innovative devices recognized as having high medical utility for significant diseases.

• Toronto, Sept. 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On 04 October 2023, CFA Society Toronto will be hosting its Annual Investment Dinner.
• We welcome Ajay Agrawal, Founder of Creative Destruction Lab for an engaging discussion moderated by Heather Cooke, CFA, Board Director at Large, CFA Society Toronto.
• Where: Fairmont Royal York, Canadian Room, 100 Front Street West Toronto, M5J 1E3
  Ajay is an economist and professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.
• "As always, CFA Society Toronto brings you the best and the brightest speakers for the Annual Investment Dinner.

• While they’re very rare, serial killer healthcare workers often share common traits, and they target a specific, and very vulnerable, victim pool.
• While limited research has been conducted on serial killer medicos, there are some trends among serial killers that can help us understand the role of the profession in the act of serial murder.

‘Custodial’ killers

• Serial killers come from many walks of life, and not all are dysfunctional loners – many are married or in a stable relationship.
• A 2014 research paper found serial killers can be understood via several subtypes, including: those who kill for sexually sadistic pleasure; professional killers who are motivated by money and the power they derive from the kill; and, as relevant to Letby, “custodial killers”.
• Custodial killers are often healthcare workers who murder helpless or dependent people in their care.
• One research group studied 64 female serial killers in the US between 1821 and 2008, and found nearly 40% of them worked in healthcare.

Letby and healthcare killers

• Another research paper specifically studied the characteristics of 16 convicted healthcare serial killers, which the authors defined as “nurses who have been convicted of at least two murders, which they have carried out within a hospital setting”.
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  Women can be psychopaths too, in ways more subtle but just as dangerous

  Letby fits several of these characteristics.

• A 2007 book, Inside the Minds of Healthcare Serial Killers: Why They Kill, provides a checklist of 22 “red flags” for this group of killers, including:
• Letby certainly made her colleagues suspicious, and they reported her in the years preceding her arrest.
• This would fit with research suggesting attention-seeking is a motive for female serial killers more generally.

Other infamous healthcare killers

• Harold Shipman was an English general practitioner who is considered one of the most prolific serial killers in modern history.
• He was convicted of murdering 15 of his patients in 2000, but is suspected in the deaths of up to 250 people.
• Given the patients he killed were largely in good health, misguided “altruism” cannot explain his crimes.

Medics who murder are rare

• But it’s important to acknowledge they also cause such interest precisely because they are so rare.
• While medics who turn serial killer are incredibly prolific, we should not fear unnecessarily for ourselves or our loved ones.

• LifeLaunchr and the International Institute of Research (IRI) have joined forces to unveil "Empowering Tomorrow's Minds," a groundbreaking research program for exceptional high school students.
• The launch will be celebrated through an upcoming webinar featuring LifeLaunchr, Dr. Robert Malkin (Duke University), and IRI leaders.
• This unique partnership is set to launch a high school research program aimed at providing unparalleled opportunities for exceptional young scholars to engage in cutting-edge research mentored by renowned university faculty members.
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