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Zayna Khayat, PhD

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Applied Health Futurist Chief Program Officer @amshealthcare.ca Creating the future of health to accelerate better healthspans for everyone Co-author: Future of Aging 🇨🇦🇱🇧 | Mom of 3 | #WeTheNorth zaynakhayat.org

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Zayna Khayat, PhD @zaynakhayat.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Sensors and wearables for animals ... Garmin straps one on the horse's tail and a business model is born www.garmin.com/en-CA/p/1277...
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Dr Rasu Shrestha @rasushrestha.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Future of #MedEd: Trend 1️⃣: Embracing Collaboration, Innovation, and Diversity Trend 2️⃣: Building Flexible, Personalized Learning Platforms Trend 3️⃣: Integrating Advanced Technologies into Education learn.hms.harvard.edu/insights/all... #medsky #radres #healthxph
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Exploring Current Trends in Medical Education | Harvard Medical School Professional, Corporate, and Continuing Education
How medical education is a driving force in shaping the future of health care.
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Dr Rasu Shrestha @rasushrestha.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
When one woman complained that her doctor’s office had been dismissive, a chatbot offered this reassuring reply:
The nicer doctor
It’s not hard to see what so many people like about chatbots.

They have an encyclopedic knowledge of medical literature, sure. But so many users told us that a big part of the appeal was that the A.I. offered a kinder version of health care.

One woman asked for help diagnosing a tingly feeling in her hand that, she told ChatGPT, she suspected stemmed from an issue with her median nerve.

“You’re describing something that fits beautifully with how the median nerve runs through the forearm,” it replied.

Chatbots often wrote how sorry they were to hear about the users’ symptoms and how “great” and “important” their questions were. Sometimes, they even commiserated with users about the health system. When one woman complained that her doctor’s office had been dismissive, a chatbot offered this reassuring reply:

Green and gray text bubbles between Catherine Rawson and "Microsoft Copilot."
Another woman, frustrated that her human provider wasn’t matching ChatGPT’s bedside manner, sent her oncologist a list of kind messages the bot had sent her — things she thought the doctor “should have said to me.”
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
First opinions, 2nd opinions, analyzing lab tests, preparing for a clinic visit, helping to make difficult diagnoses, and more use cases. Its popularity will keep increasing despite lack of objective data for benefit or harm www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/w...
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Frustrated by the Medical System, Patients Turn to A.I.
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Yuri Quintana @yuriquintana.com · 17/11/2025
Researchers created an AI system that builds digital twins from patient data to forecast future health trajectories A major step for personalized medicine Details: www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/new...
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AI tool creates ‘digital twins’ of patients to predict their future health
A new artificial intelligence tool that can create virtual representations of patients and predict individual health trajectories has been hailed a potential gamechanger for the clinical trial sector.
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Mindaugas Galvosas, MD @mgalvosas.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
On Climate-Health axis: extreme heat, floods, and droughts are already driving disease outbreaks and food insecurity, and overwhelming health services. “The time of warnings has finished. Now we are living in a time of consequences.” - Brazil’s health minister Alexandre Padilha.
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Building H @buildingh.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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The surprising new use for GLP-1s: Alcohol and drug addiction
Some doctors are prescribing weight-loss drugs such as Zepbound and Ozempic to help reduce cravings for illicit drugs and alcohol. But research on the benefits is limited.
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Ritesh Patel @ritters90.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
And yet another Patient Matching service for clinical trials raises a goib of money - myTomorrows scores $29M for clinical trial platform
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myTomorrows scores $29M for clinical trial platform
The company helps match patients to relevant clinical trials and engages in recruitment for biopharma partners.
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Say what? 😲 @danielkraft.bsky.social Tabletop particle accelerator could transform medicine and materials science share.google/8lYqu9Oyktbh...
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Tabletop particle accelerator could transform medicine and materials science
The device could yield intense X-rays which are usually produced in huge facilities.
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Amy Webb @amywebb.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
This doodle is one that I tend to sketch and show often when I'm meeting with leaders. (Especially leaders of publicly-traded companies.) The present can feel volatile and unsettling. Don't let that be a distraction. Keep your focus on what you're building towards in the future.
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Dominic Tyer @dominic-tyer.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Crime gangs in UK start making own branded weight-loss drugs www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Crime gangs in UK start making own branded weight-loss drugs
Medicines watchdog says criminals are designing packaging and branding to look like legitimate product
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Zayna Khayat, PhD @zaynakhayat.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
@oecd-ocde.bsky.social state of health at a glance oe.cd/6gn
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Nesta @nestauk.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🇯🇵 What can we learn from Japan on healthy ageing? Join us on 26 Nov for a breakfast event to learn about Japan's innovative policy response to an ageing population - and how learnings can be applied in the UK in the face of demographic shifts. 📍 London / online Register ➡️ bit.ly/42MIQfA
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 10/11/2025
Read more in the new article by @hannahritchie.bsky.social and @antea04.bsky.social: ourworldindata.org/timeline-anx...
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Anxiety is one of the world’s most common health issues. How have treatments evolved over the last 70 years?
Anxiety affects at least hundreds of millions of people every year. What treatments are available, and how have they changed over time?
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Mindaugas Galvosas, MD @mgalvosas.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
What a cool idea - record your voice and hilltale.com will tell bedtime stories to your children in your voice - anytime.
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Hilltale
Welcome to Hilltale
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Med school definitely should be rethought and reformed, but making it shorter is one of the smaller changes that need to happen. I have some thoughts... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
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Opinion | Make Medical School Three Years
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Nesta @nestauk.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Technological progress is often equated with shiny gadgets: rockets, robots and AI. But many of history’s most important innovations have been 'boring', and that has big implications for those working on innovation for social good. Nesta's Laurie Smith explores how dull can change the world:
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ICT&health @icthealth.nl · 05/11/2025
Mayo Clinic launches Platform_Insights — giving healthcare institutions global access to its AI-driven expertise and data insights. “Technology should enhance care, not complicate it,” says Dr. Clark Otley. A new era of human-centred digital medicine begins. @mayoclinic.org #healthcare
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Mayo Clinic launches AI platform for global healthcare innovation | ICT&health
The Mayo Clinic Platform_Insights platform enables healthcare organisations worldwide to benefit from its digital expertise, data insights and clinical knowledge.
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ICT&health @icthealth.nl · 05/11/2025
Philips launches DeviceGuide, an AI co-pilot that guides doctors in real time during heart repair. Developed with Edwards Lifesciences, it fuses imaging into 3D views, transforming precision and teamwork inside the beating heart. #healthcare
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Philips unveils a new AI tool for heart repair procedures | ICT&health
Philips announced the launch of DeviceGuide, an AI-driven innovation designed to support physicians in treating a leaky mitral valve without open-heart surgery.
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Mindaugas Galvosas, MD @mgalvosas.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs) care for more complex patients than independent physician offices. Those who visited an HOPD were older and sicker than those visiting independent physician offices. www.aha.org/comparison-c...
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Comparison of Care in Hospital Outpatient Departments and Independent Physician Offices | AHA
Site neutral payments may have adverse effects on Medicare patient access to care.
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Zayna Khayat, PhD @zaynakhayat.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Bad ass job title “Deputy Mayor for Social Rights Economic Development Labor Feminism and Democratic Memory” To me, any one of those roles is a full time job! #BarcelonaDeepTech
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Nourish @nourishlead.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
We are so pleased to welcome Health Futurist and Nourish Board Chair @zaynakhayat.bsky.social next week to the 2025 Nourish Symposium: 100 Million Better Bites! Join us as we look to the future of #healthcare - together! 👉 nourishleadership.ca/programs/sym... #NourishSymposium2025 #Foresight
Nourish Symposium Keynote: The Future of Food and Health. 
Zayna Khayat. Chief Program Officer and Managing Director for the History and Future of Healthcare. AMS Healthcare.

A headshot image of Zayna Khayat wearing a black short-sleeved sweater, black thick-rimmed square glass, with long hair.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
How Ultraprocessed Food Took Over America. UPFs are among the greatest health threats of our time, by @alicecallahan.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/b... via @nytopinion.nytimes.com
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How Ultraprocessed Food Took Over America
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Despite concerns that A.I. will worsen inequities, there's growing evidence it can be used to reduce them. Latest today jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... My summary Table of some examples
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Dr Rasu Shrestha @rasushrestha.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
N.I.C.E. Agents Target Americans… www.instagram.com/p/DQISiGdgfZ...
Not ICE but NICE agents, form Canada… of course
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Dr Rasu Shrestha @rasushrestha.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Longevity expert Dr Peter Attia: “The playbook of Medicine 2.0, which is treat a disease when a disease is present, doesn't seem to work as well.” ✅"So the first principle of Medicine 3.0 is you have to take a much longer arc on the prevention of chronic disease." www.cbsnews.com/news/prepari...
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Billionaires seek out this doctor's help preparing for advanced age. Here's what he prescribes.
Dr. Peter Attia has declared war on what he calls the marginal decade, the final years of life that are often plagued by sickness and immobility.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The @ufl.edu, co-authors of the @nature.com paper, took out a full page ad in @nytimes.com today about this discovery "a defining moment in cancer research."
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Zayna Khayat, PhD @zaynakhayat.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
"A defining moment in cancer research" [progress on the quest for a universal cancer vaccine]
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Zayna Khayat, PhD @zaynakhayat.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Customer service (or lack thereof) Oldie but goodie Source - ? pre Twitter I think?
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
An injection of innovation for children’s vaccination. A centralized, digital vaccine registry would give parents and health care professionals the information needed to keep immunization records up to date for kids. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Globe editorial: An injection of innovation for children’s vaccination
A centralized, digital system would give parents and health care professionals the information needed to keep immunization records up to date for kids
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Susannah Fox @susannahrfox.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
1+ million clinical trials are conducted annually. A shocking few ask patients (or even clinicians) for input on physical, economic, and psychological burdens, much less the questions they hope to answer. What happens? Failure. Waste. What can be done? Read: susannahfox.com/2025/10/16/p...
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Patient Input on Clinical Trials
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Zayna Khayat, PhD @zaynakhayat.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Health searches account(ed?) for ~8% of the ~185B searches humans do (did?) on Google daily Google search has been in free fall, with health-related Google search declining fastest At the same time, health/fitness/beauty comprises ~10% of chatGPT prompts [June 2024 data]
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Will A.I. lead to de-skilling of physicians? And if so what can be done to preempt it? @tberzin.bsky.social and I address this in a new @thelancet.com thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Preserving clinical skills in the age of AI assistance
How are clinicians to preserve core clinical skills in an era of algorithmic assistance? As artificial intelligence (AI) assumes a growing role in clinical practice, concern is mounting that off-loadi...
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Zayna Khayat, PhD @zaynakhayat.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Thought provoking future of health post of the day. A statement I read that got me really thinking. “Death of IT departments in 2030: ‘digital transformation’ will sound as outdated as ‘paperless office’” Image credit: @timify10.bsky.social
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
These large national cohorts provided data that supported healthcare policymaking across the public and private sectors. They were some of the most important works that only CDC was able to perform - and execute well - as a nationally representative survey. www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...
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CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off
NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.
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Zayna Khayat, PhD @zaynakhayat.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
My post of the day (re)framing the future of health & care ... This one is from my ever-growing dictionary for the new lexicon for health in the 21st century These 3 terms live at the intersection of voice & sound as a digital biomarker/phenotype + AI + medicine Image credit: The Medical Futurist
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13/10/2025
"Help us locate and commemorate our children who died while being forced by the government to attend boarding schools."
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Dear white people: Here’s how to honor Native Americans
Help us locate and commemorate our children who died while being forced by the government to attend boarding schools.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13/10/2025
Florida’s surgeon general’s anti-vax beliefs are only the tip of a very deeply weird iceberg. Joseph Ladapo’s guiding voice? His wife, who believes she can talk to “Archangel Michael, Mary Magdalene, and many other beings of light.”
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From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc
Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.
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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 14/10/2025
What Happened When AI Came for Craft Beer An attempt to integrate AI into a beer judging competition failed after judges protested. They felt their volunteer work was being used without consent to train a for-profit app, highlighting the clash between AI and human-centric art forms.
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What Happened When AI Came for Craft Beer
A prominent beer competition introduced an AI-judging tool without warning. The judges and some members of the wider brewing industry were pissed.
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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 14/10/2025
A measles outbreak in South Carolina has sent over 150 unvaccinated children into a 21-day quarantine. The event highlights the consequences of local vaccination rates falling below the 95% threshold needed for community immunity. #MedSky 🛟
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Measles outbreak in SC sends 150 unvaccinated kids into 21-day quarantine
The outbreak includes at least seven confirmed cases, but some are clearly being missed.
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Zayna Khayat, PhD @zaynakhayat.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
My post of the day (re)framing the future of health & care ... This one is from my ever-growing dictionary for the new lexicon for health in the 21st century These 3 terms live at the intersection of voice & sound as a digital biomarker/phenotype + AI + medicine Image credit: The Medical Futurist
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Zayna Khayat, PhD @zaynakhayat.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Post of the day -- what it took to lodge a complaint in the era of chisels! Source - ??
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 09/10/2025
How over- and underrepresented are different causes of death in the media? Another way to visualize this data is to measure how over- or underrepresented each cause is. To do this, we calculate the ratio between a cause’s share of deaths and its share of news articles.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Reclaiming care of patients in the age of A.I. "A.I. will not replace care, rather, it could help us rediscover it." This week's @thelancet.com editorial www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Zayna Khayat, PhD @zaynakhayat.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
(re)frame of the day - simple image of an entirely new channel to access care & value in AI era "What matters is whether AI takes costs out of the system & amplifies scarce clinicians — and whether we invent payment models that reward that value" Myoung Cha, Verily www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Lucien Engelen @lucienengelen.com · 08/10/2025
yes, this is the path forward. IN a restaurant normally I want to choose what I eat as well, in stead of the chef choosing FOR me. IN those cases where I want to be surprised, I want to CHOOSE to.
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Bob Wachter @bobwachter.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
My new Substack: Will AI Rescue Primary Care? Why AI-enabled solutions have mostly failed to solve the primary care crisis, and my hope/prediction that the endgame will likely be a new two-tiered system that increasingly relies on AI for basic care needs. robertwachter.substack.com/p/will-ai-re...
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Will AI Rescue Primary Care?
Eventually, But Not Yet
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Zayna Khayat, PhD @zaynakhayat.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"2 centuries ago, 1/3 Swedish children died before 5 yrs old Now: child mortality rate in Sweden = 0.3% South Korea achieved similar reduction much faster The 1st countries to improve living conditions need much longer - countries catching up later learn from what worked elsewhere"
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Zayna Khayat, PhD @zaynakhayat.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
(re)frame of the day Two ways to summarize the major priorities / forces that are largely universal in health and care, globally @rasushrestha.bsky.social from @advocatehealth.bsky.social @himssglobal.bsky.social CEO of HIMSS Both were set up slides to keynotes at WHX Tech in Dubai in Sept
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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