The Medical Futurist
JUNE 21, 2025
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.
FDA Law Blog
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
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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Permanente Medicine
APRIL 29, 2025
A new Kaiser Permanente study showed how an integrated colorectal cancer screening program cut cancer deaths in half, reduced incidence by nearly a third, and erased racial health disparities in screenings, incidence, and death rates. underscoring the need to raise awareness, screen proactively, and improve treatment.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 10, 2024
It’s all what we signed up for when we signed up on the dotted line to be in healthcare and palliative care. In 2018, survey data revealed that only 41% of survey adult practices had the full complement of funded core team members, which is up from 25% of 2016. The National Palliative Care Registry.
The Clinical Problem Solvers
DECEMBER 20, 2021
difficulty of sending patient messages through the electronic medical record in languages other than English), limited healthcare literacy, and English-only signage on healthcare campuses are just a few of the structurally racist barriers faced by many Asian folks seeking healthcare. Insufficient language services (i.e.,
FDA Law Blog
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
Houck — On November 4th, CDC issued its revised guideline on prescribing opioids for pain as an expansion and update of its 2016 CDC Opioid Prescribing Guideline. We blogged on the 2016 guideline here in March 2016, and the proposed guideline here on March 18th). By Larry K. Dowell D, Ragan KR, Jones CM, Baldwin GT, Chou R.,
GeriPal
APRIL 3, 2025
We covered: The first parody song I wrote, for AGS 2018 in Orlando , about this article by Nancy Schoenborn on how to discuss stopping cancer screening. Annie 05:16 So if you look back in history, I think Eric and Ken have been doing this since 2016. How to talk to patients about screening colonoscopies. Go Cubs, go.
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