The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

In 2015, surgeons in Manchester, UK have performed the first bionic eye implant for an AMD patient using Second Sight’s innovation. The 80-year-old Ray Flynn lost his central vision entirely, but with the help of the retinal implant, he could make out shapes on the computer screen. That must have been truly amazing!

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Diabetes Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

Myriad Genetics

MARCH 19, 2024

Singleton’s story In 2015, J.J. The cancer had come back and was not responding to the same treatment as his initial diagnosis. The single best way to ensure early detection is to get screened regularly, which can include a colonoscopy. Family history may play a role in qualifying for additional screenings. Today, J.J.

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Individual Screening Diagnose Families 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. And as of 2015, the survey started to ask folks about cancer history, just some broad questions about lifetime history of cancer and whether they’ve had a cancer diagnosis in the past year.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. So I thought… And I was doing this for the United States Preventive Services Task Force because we were looking at the evidence to what’s the benefit and harm of screening, and I had to look all over. 2015, 2016.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 126

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

And this was in 2015 when I started to think about this project. That’s what I had done with my abortion research, and I had also studied newborn screening policies evolving. And that got me interested in thinking about other areas of medicine where there’s a real intersection between medicine and the law.

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Provider Medical Hospital Patient-Centered 19