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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. Digital contact lenses sound like science fiction: the translucent layer on your eye transmitting special information about your body to an outside device.

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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. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

My special guest podcaster, Emily Groopman, is an actual Pediatric Geneticist in training and we hope that you will find this episode useful. 2016 Jan;37(1):3-15; quiz 16-7, 47. Inborn errors of metabolism in infancy: a guide to diagnosis. So my special guest host on this episode is a trainee in pediatrics and medical genetics.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. Alex: And, they were talking about how they were so annoyed because they felt like they got called so frequently by companies trying to sell them electronic wheelchairs. I’m sure we all have the same issue. Alex: Okay.

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