The Medical Futurist
JUNE 17, 2025
Back in 2015, Nobel Biocare held the first dental surgery filmed through VR and allowed observers to virtually assist the whole procedure from the surgeon’s perspective. In comparison, the first VR-recorded surgery was performed at the Royal London Hospital in 2016.
FDA Law Blog
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
Regulating LDTs: A Long and Winding Road In what might sound to some like protesting too much, the PR invokes FDA’s longstanding assertion that IVDs “manufactured” by laboratories are medical devices and that clinical laboratories that develop tests are acting as manufacturers.
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The Medical Futurist
JUNE 21, 2025
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. In 2015, surgeons in Manchester, UK have performed the first bionic eye implant for an AMD patient using Second Sight’s innovation.
FDA Law Blog
APRIL 11, 2022
As background, Medtronic manufactures the MiniMed 600 series insulin infusion pumps. For instance, some products could remain in boxes in hospital inventory for an extended period. Our focus, however, is on FDA’s criticism of Medtronic’s calculation of risk.
FDA Law Blog
AUGUST 7, 2024
ENTRESTO was approved by FDA in July 2015 “to reduce the risk of cardiovascular death and hospitalization for heart failure in patients with chronic heart failure (NYHA Class II-IV) and reduced ejection fraction.” Benefits are most clearly evident in patients with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) below normal.”
GeriPal
MARCH 2, 2023
By 2015 that number increased to 4% of US adults. Eric: And we have Tasce Bongiovanni, who is an acute care trauma surgeon at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital. Summary Transcript Summary Gabapentin is the 10th most prescribed drug in the United States and use is increasing. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Nisha.
GeriPal
DECEMBER 7, 2023
And so we do see hospital admissions for heat exposure and certainly cardiovascular and respiratory problems related to air pollution with climate change and also cognitive problems. And we have gone from 250 members at the end of 2015 to about 26,000 right now across the United States and a number of chapters that have grown.
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