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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. A year later, the search giant announced they have begun working on integrating the technology into a chain of eye hospitals in India.

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9 Technologies That Will Shape The Future Of Dentistry

The Medical Futurist

In comparison, the first VR-recorded surgery was performed at the Royal London Hospital in 2016. Teledentistry If you are reluctant to go to the dentist, imagine how hard it is for children, patients with special needs or the elderly in nursing homes.

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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

She is the Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Jeffrey Bridge, a leading researcher at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital. A Culturally Informed Approach to Supporting Suicidal Minoritized Patients.

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Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

education, income, number of previous hospitalizations) that also lead to clinical outcomes, not only race-based stratification. 2016 Jul;91(7):916-20. We might critically think about why we might use race in a regression model, and proactively consider how we will interpret and responsibly discuss findings that may result.

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The New FDA Draft Human Factors Guidance: A Bridge Too Far

FDA Law Blog

as a de novo special control or in a guidance document for a specific device type). By Jeffrey K. Shapiro — More than a decade ago, FDA began systematically to incorporate review of human factors (HF) design validation within 510(k) reviews. Accordingly, only a subset of 510(k) submissions have historically included HF validation data.

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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.

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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. ’ Though it often does not come with the attending salary, medical trainees are getting paid to perform a service, and hospitals provide retirement plans to these individuals. So yes, humans make mistakes.

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