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9 Technologies That Will Shape The Future Of Dentistry

The Medical Futurist

For dentists, it’s transforming diagnosis, decision-making, and treatment planning. AI in oral and maxillofacial pathology: early detection, targeted treatments Oral cancers and other serious issues can lurk undetected with biopsies being the only way to diagnose them. This means faster results and less guesswork.

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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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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

If somebody has cancer and they’re recently diagnosed, somebody has cancer and they’re undergoing active treatment, somebody has cancer and they’re in early remission, now they’re a year or two years, three years, four years out and they still have pain. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Jessie: Yes.

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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. And I feel like a lot of this is really, you know, moving away from another podcast we did is industrialization of healthcare and really focusing on the individual that’s in front of you.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. And then from a dementia and multiple different diagnoses, how much should hospice look the same for everyone, or tailored to the patient or the diagnosis that we’re dealing with?

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Eric: Yeah.

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Impact of home care on healthcare use after a first diagnosis of dementia in older adults living with severe mental illness [Geriatrics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Older adults with severe mental illness (SMI) who develop dementia are a particularly complex and understudied population with various healthcare needs. Objective: To describe individual characteristics and healthcare use in older adults with SMI across home care services (HCS) profiles before and after the first dementia diagnosis.

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