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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

In 2015, surgeons in Manchester, UK have performed the first bionic eye implant for an AMD patient using Second Sight’s innovation. It greatly helps physicians in remote areas such as Sub-Saharan Africa diagnose and treat patients. She spoke of her joy after being able to tell the time for the first time in more than six years.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

It was also the time that in 2015, that people who were trans and famous really put being trans on the map at that time, too. Is that because they have higher rates of chronic conditions like diabetes, coronary disease, tobacco use, things like that, or is there something else that’s going on? So it coincided with that.