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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. 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.

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Illinois Reports First West Nile Virus Case of 2025

Physician's Weekly

The person, who lives in southern Illinois, was hospitalized with complications from the mosquito-borne virus, according to the U.S. This is the earliest West Nile virus case reported in Illinois since 2016. Fix torn screens and keep doors and windows closed if possible. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

GeriPal

Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc. 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. And we recognize it, we screen for it.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

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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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

So it’s just a wide-opening lens that most of us never really get to see if we’re on the hospital-based side. I was like, “I have all these things I’m doing in the hospital to try to make people better and then I might be sending them right back to a big hazardous environment.” Alex: The Wayback Machine.

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CDC Emphasizes Opioid Guideline is Voluntary and Should Support, Not Supplant, Patient Care

FDA Law Blog

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.,

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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. I had it on my screen. Jennifer: They have a meaningful impact on what happens to them during the hospitalization and after. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Jennifer.

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