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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. It greatly helps physicians in remote areas such as Sub-Saharan Africa diagnose and treat patients. Google is not the only one working on A.I.

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9 Technologies That Will Shape The Future Of Dentistry

The Medical Futurist

AI in oral and maxillofacial pathology: early detection, targeted treatments Oral cancers and other serious issues can lurk undetected with biopsies being the only way to diagnose them. In comparison, the first VR-recorded surgery was performed at the Royal London Hospital in 2016. This means faster results and less guesswork.

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Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.

Physician's Weekly

So, in 2016, she celebrated her 60th birthday at her local CVS. Take influenza, which annually sends from 140,000 to 710,000 people to hospitals, most of them seniors, and is fatal to 10% of hospitalized older adults. “I was there when they opened,” Beckham recalled.

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Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

education, income, number of previous hospitalizations) that also lead to clinical outcomes, not only race-based stratification. 2016 Jul;91(7):916-20. Establishing a Task Force to Reassess the Inclusion of Race in Diagnosing Kidney Diseases. We might group people across socio-demographic categories (ex. September 12, 2018.

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #2: Flight of Passage

PEMBlog

Bronchopulmonary sequestration Our patient was diagnosed with bronchopulmonary sequestration (BPS). Pulmonology and surgery were consulted during his hospital stay, and he has since had a left lower lobectomy after healing from his pneumonia. doi: 10.1128/microbiolspec.TNMI7-0032-2016. Bronchopulmonary sequestration C.

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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. Jennifer: They have a meaningful impact on what happens to them during the hospitalization and after. They all self-identified as a hospital based practice.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

We used all of our political capital to make sure it happens in Chicago, which is where we started for the literature Updates back in 2016, back when it was just me and Ken, and then we brought in Alex, like two years later. Annie 05:16 So if you look back in history, I think Eric and Ken have been doing this since 2016. Go Cubs, go.

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