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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

Treating less serious ailments gets faster, more targeted and more efficient, while the means for curing more serious and life-altering illnesses improve. 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.

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Illinois Reports First West Nile Virus Case of 2025

Physician's Weekly

This is the earliest West Nile virus case reported in Illinois since 2016. The first batch of virus-positive mosquitoes this year was discovered in Rockford, Ill., Fix torn screens and keep doors and windows closed if possible. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

GeriPal post on “fast food” style palliative care in chronic critical illness. I had it on my screen. Areej: So when I was in college, I had a close friend who had a serious illness and actually died as a result of cancer. Additional links: Editorial on Areej’s study. Palliative care in lung and GI cancers. Transcript.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

2016 Jan;37(1):3-15; quiz 16-7, 47. Now, newborn screening, or NBS, includes testing newly born infants for certain IEMs. But again, metabolic GI illness, interrupt other interruptions in feeding schedule, intense exercise. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. Pediatr Rev.

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

GeriPal

Fox gives patients hope there may be a place that illness doesn’t touch Depression is a Liar Why is Being a Patient Such a Difficult Pill to Swallow Better Patient Care Calls for a ‘Platinum Rule’ to Replace the Golden One. And that includes what we call illness-related concerns, the things that are directly mediated by the illness itself.

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A Review of H5N1

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

In 1996, a variant of H5N1 was documented overseas that resulted in a severe illness in birds and was designated as highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). Since 2016, HPAI H5N1 has been detected in wild birds in the United States during screening efforts by wildlife authorities.