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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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9 Technologies That Will Shape The Future Of Dentistry

The Medical Futurist

For dentists, it’s transforming diagnosis, decision-making, and treatment planning. In comparison, the first VR-recorded surgery was performed at the Royal London Hospital in 2016. For patients, it promises more accurate care and better outcomes. This study summarises how AI is adding value to various segments of the field.

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Multifaceted Disparities Impact Outcomes in Keratoconus, Corneal Hydrops

Physician's Weekly

The retrospective study included 762 patients with unstable keratoconus diagnosed at Mass Eye and Ear between January 2016 and October 2022. A large proportion (92.1%) of those seen with a diagnosis of unstable keratoconus underwent CXL during the study period,” Dr. Kanu and colleagues wrote. Kanu, MD , and colleagues. with Black race.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

We got some really special guests with us. So I have thought about this for months, maybe years since your 2016, cycle blog, but we have picked Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. They have poor pain, they have poor function, but you also can’t clearly make a diagnosis. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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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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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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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. ” I think we started the blog in 2007 or 2008, we were doing that up until 2016. And, then around 2016 we were like, “We kind of need a new challenge, and that’s podcasting now.” Alex: Okay. ” Love it.

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