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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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Illinois Reports First West Nile Virus Case of 2025

Physician's Weekly

The person, who lives in southern Illinois, was hospitalized with complications from the mosquito-borne virus, according to the U.S. This is the earliest West Nile virus case reported in Illinois since 2016. Fix torn screens and keep doors and windows closed if possible. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

So it’s just a wide-opening lens that most of us never really get to see if we’re on the hospital-based side. I was like, “I have all these things I’m doing in the hospital to try to make people better and then I might be sending them right back to a big hazardous environment.” Alex: The Wayback Machine.

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

GeriPal

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. I had it on my screen. Jennifer: They have a meaningful impact on what happens to them during the hospitalization and after. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Jennifer.

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

GeriPal

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. Our early studies were looking at things like, desire for death, and syndromal depression, and screening for depression and anxiety, and will to live. So tiny, tiny, in a hospital bed. That the wish to… Eric: Complicated. Harvey: Complicated.

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

GeriPal

Robert was first asked by one of his own patients for assistance in dying in 1991, far before aid in dying was legalized in California in 2016. To examine how clinicians might act in the face of such bans, we turn to Lori Freedman, who wrote a book about clinicians (primarily Ob-Gyn’s) who work in Catholic Hospitals.