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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

Treating less serious ailments gets faster, more targeted and more efficient, while the means for curing more serious and life-altering illnesses improve. 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.

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All you need to know about louisville lectures

Louisville Lectures

Boot Camp: PHASE TWO Or, Emergencies and Assessing Them This week, we will look at two highly anticipated videos, Electrolyte Emergencies by Dr. Eleanor Lederer and Assessing the Seriously Ill Patient by Dr. David Nunley. It is a level 1 trauma hospital, with 24-hour catheterization laboratory and a comprehensive stroke center.

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Welcome 2021 Residents!

Louisville Lectures

Internal Medicine Residency Orientation of 2021 The July Effect: Interns around the world are beginning their residencies this month, giving many a reason to believe there will be more mistakes made in the hospital. Disclaimers ©2015 LouisvilleLectures.org Not to worry! Hope it’s your happiest birthday yet!

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Probiotics don’t improve outcomes in children with acute gastroenteritis

PEMBlog

every year, leading to emergency department visits and hospitalizations. However, this large study shows that probiotics do not significantly shorten illness duration, improve symptoms, or reduce the need for additional medical visits. N Engl J Med 2018; 379:2015-2026. N Engl J Med. 2018 Nov 22;379(21):2002-2014. Freedman et al.

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A Question 30 Years in the Making: Would a Final LDT Rule Withstand Judicial Scrutiny?

FDA Law Blog

However, FDA states that this exemption does not apply to corporate or hospital laboratories that employ licensed practitioners, and the agency says FD&C Act otherwise contains no exception or limitation for devices manufactured by laboratories. Premarket Approval or De Novo pathways).

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Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Pamela Wible MD

Since that 2015 conversation, I’ve been debunking burnout as a victim-blaming buzzword that prolongs physician agony by avoiding the real issue leading to physician despair. It’s a growing crisis affecting over half of all doctors in the U.S., Now housewives and high achievers and anyone stressed at work suffered from burnout too.

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Frailty Triples Odds of More Severe RSV Illness

Physician's Weekly

Frail patients often have compromised immune responses, which increases their vulnerability to infections and reduces their ability to recover from acute respiratory illnesses (ARIs), including influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), the researchers continued. Data came from the three influenza seasons from 2012 to 2015.

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