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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. Additionally, by buying smart toothbrushes from companies like Procter & Gamble and Philips Oral Healthcare you agree to their privacy policies that enable them to share your data with third parties.

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Q&A: Cannabis Use Tied to Reduced Working Memory

Physician's Weekly

Gowin and his colleagues analyzed data from 1,003 adults between 22 and 36 years of age who had functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), urine toxicology, and cannabis use results collected at one academic site between 2012 and 2015 as part of the Human Connectome Project. The cohort (mean age, 28.7 The cohort (mean age, 28.7

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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. In 2016, The Guardian reported that a blind woman suffering from this disease was fitted with the implant labelled “bionic eye” in the UK as part of a trial at the Oxford Eye Hospital. and a specificity of 95.5%.

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It Takes Three [Components] to Make a Thing Go Riiiiiight – OPDP Challenges Two-Part Ad

FDA Law Blog

This content is likely one of the reasons for FDA’s withdrawal of the Draft Guidance in 2015 – the same year that FDA suffered one of the most significant blows regarding First Amendment protections for pharmaceutical manufacturer speech. Where FDA does not have jurisdiction, the agency may nevertheless take appropriate action (e.g.,

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

GeriPal

Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain. I mean, there is so much substance use stigma in healthcare. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I. Fifty percent have a diagnosis in their record of decedents have dementia. Joel: Yeah. Samir: Unequivocally, unequivocally. Alex: Mm-hmm.