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Infant Mortality Needs Assessment for Fairborn, Ohio [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

This project is based on a grant given to provide infant mortality health education and promotion interventions to low-income families at Hawthorne Landing, an apartment complex in Fairborn. Context Fairborn is a city in Greene County, Ohio. Setting or Dataset The setting is Hawthorn Landing in Fairborn, OH.

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

billion people were living with vision loss in 2020, and it is forecasted to reach 1.7 Originally, the companies promised to put the digital contact lens on the market around 2020. Harbisson received a specialised electronic eye, his “eyeborg” to be able to render perceived colours as sounds on the musical scale. Globally 1.1

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FDA Medical Device Ban Overturned For the First Time

FDA Law Blog

In March 2020, FDA issued a final rule that banned the use of Graduated Electronic Decelerators (GEDs) to treat patients with severe self-injurious and aggressive behaviors (SIB/AB), but did not restrict the use of these same devices for other purposes, like smoking cessation. FDA cleared 510(k)s for GEDs in the 1990s.

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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

33 Charts

According to Epic, the number of patient messages spiked 151 percent nationally from the period covering the first 11 weeks of 2020 through the end of the year. then educate patients and doctors Once we agree on how a tool will be used, patients need guidance. It’s everything written here about electronic health records.

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Mastering Responses to FDA 510(k) AI Letters: A Strategic Approach

FDA Law Blog

Performance Metric FY 2018 FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022 Average Number of FDA Days to MDUFA IV Decision 72.62 During the recent Regulatory Education for Industry (REdI) Annual Conference, June 6-10, 2022 , FDA presented “Tips from a Lead Reviewer” for the presentation titled “Detangling the 510(k) Process.”

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Stop the Presses! DEA and DOJ Fine eBay for not Reporting Sales of Tableting and Pill Press Machines

FDA Law Blog

Also, a DEA Form 452 report must be electronically filed within 15 days after the order is shipped. . § 1310.05(b)(2), b)(2), each regulated person must orally report “any domestic regulated transaction in a tableting machine or an encapsulating machine. when the order is placed with the seller.”

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. Integration of Person-Centered Narratives Into the Electronic Health Record: Study Protocol. Bennett, C.R., Schilling, L.,