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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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Episode 384: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 26 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 1

The Clinical Problem Solvers

These programs recognize the increasing difficulties in having to first see a community-based primary care provider before seeing a specialized psychiatrist. 2016 Mar;67(3):324-31. Diversifying your mental health outreach goes hand in hand with diversifying your providers. References Benton TD , Boyd RC , Njoroge WF. Psychiatr Serv.

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New Draft Guidance Provides Detailed (and Burdensome) Recommendations for Chemical Assessments to Support Medical Device Biocompatibility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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How Doctors Can Save More and Do Less

The Motivated MD

A study by Johns Hopkins in 2016 found that medical errors may potentially be the third leading cause of death nationwide. I am not liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial damages, including but not limited to special, incidental, consequential, or other damages. So yes, humans make mistakes.

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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. 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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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. Eric: And that’s similar to the 2016 JAMA paper, right? Did it negate everything from the 2016 trial?Palliative Eric: And how did you do that? Why another study? Tom: That’s probably true.