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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. Their research showed promising results for lab rats, and they plan to carry out the first human trials in the second half of 2017 and gather preliminary results during 2018.

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Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

GeriPal

Alex 02:44 Still suffering from some illness from there, which is why I was sick and not in the office with Eric today. So we sent that to everyone 65 and older with upcoming visits, though we were tracking on our side the people who had diagnoses and things. Alex (singing) Alex 02:34 All right, this was a fun one.

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Poetry & Palliative Care: Podcast with Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar

GeriPal

Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness. So after my last chemotherapy in 2018, I came here to my healing place of Hawaii and spent time alone, and this poem, Hawaiian Waters, flat black lava, resting green sea turtles, gentle, translucent turquoise water and waves. To let it go. . Why not live as long as possible?

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

PEMBlog

2018 Nov;142(5):e20181009. Epub 2018 Oct 8. Febrile seizures are due to the degree of fever, not the rate of temperature rise, even though we see them as the temperature is increasing rapidly in the early parts of the illness. The majority of children have febrile seizures on the first day of illness. Pediatrics.

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