The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

The California-based firm, Second Sight , the German company, Retina Implant AG, and the French venture, Pixium Vision were the forerunners of the field, developing implantable visual prosthetics to restore vision to patients who are blind as a result of the rare condition of retinitis pigmentosa. That must have been truly amazing!

Diabetes 98

Diabetes Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Niharika Goparaju Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellow at the University of Texas – Austin | Dell Children’s Medical Center Instagram: @ngoparaj, @atxpemsquad, @dellmedschool, @cat_yee Co-author: Catherine Yee, MD The Case A 12-year-old male with trisomy 21 presents with one week of right eye swelling and three days of clear eye drainage.

Patient-Centered 52

Patient-Centered Diagnosis Management Patients 52

FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As FDA explains on its website (which includes lists— here and here —of the more than 300 Accelerated Approvals (and withdrawals)): The FDA instituted its Accelerated Approval Program to allow for earlier approval of drugs that treat serious conditions, and fill an unmet medical need based on a surrogate endpoint. Patent Nos.

Clinic 59

Clinic IT Provider Patient-Centered 59

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives. Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? Samir: For me, it really came out of an interest in improving the care of patients who undergo surgery. AlexSmithMD.

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. The patient’s capacity to make decisions was marginal, and his sons were shouldering much of the responsibility.

Patient-Centered 133

Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 133

GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths. And so for me, I started off at one particular institution for medical school and went to another and noticed quite a few differences.

Hospital 126

Hospital IT Patient-Centered Patients 126

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Four percent of deaths in Canada are due to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). In further contrast to the United States, MAID in Canada is almost entirely administered by a clinician, whereas in the United States patients must self administer. What’s up with Medical aid in dying in Canada?

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144