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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

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. 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.

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New Draft Guidance Provides Detailed (and Burdensome) Recommendations for Chemical Assessments to Support Medical Device Biocompatibility

FDA Law Blog

Since the first issuance of FDA’s guidance Use of International Standard ISO 10993-1, “Biological evaluation of medical devices – Part 1: Evaluation and testing within a risk management process” in 2016, sponsors submitting premarket submissions to FDA have had the option of using these techniques to evaluate certain biocompatibility endpoints.

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Kaiser Permanente study shows screening efforts cut colorectal cancer deaths in half

Permanente Medicine

A new Kaiser Permanente study showed how an integrated colorectal cancer screening program cut cancer deaths in half, reduced incidence by nearly a third, and erased racial health disparities in screenings, incidence, and death rates. underscoring the need to raise awareness, screen proactively, and improve treatment.

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Episode 213: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 13 – Centering Asian Americans: Racism, Violence, and Health

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Highlight how structural racism against Asian-Americans surfaces in clinical settings, and describe means of counteracting such structures. Effect of a media intervention on hepatitis B screening among Vietnamese Americans. The Clinical Problem Solvers Podcast. Insufficient language services (i.e., My language, my right.”

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

I had it on my screen. And so often, these patients experience a lot of hospitalizations, numerous hospitalizations while they receive intensive chemotherapy that requires prolonged periods of neutropenia and toxicities, or stem cell transplantation, which is what I specialize in clinically now. Areej: I think it was 2016.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

She is a member of the Clinical Genome Resource Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) Clinical Domain Working Group, where as a biocurator she assesses the pathogenicity of variants in IEM-associated genes to facilitate expedited genetic diagnosis for IEMs. 2016 Jan;37(1):3-15; quiz 16-7, 47. On clinical presentation.