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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. 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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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

I actually wonder though, since we’re on a GeriPal broadcast, I think that people are under emphasizing the special risk of older people. 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. It’s a lot of lyric all at once.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

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. I think the big one for me, it was in 2015. 2015, 2016. He created fee for service, special fee for depression.

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Conscientous Provision of MAID and Abortion: Robert Brody, Lori Freedman, Mara Buchbinder

GeriPal

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. There’s nothing special about it. I don’t think it needs a special term particularly. Robert: Professional relationship.