The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

billion people were living with vision loss in 2020, and it is forecasted to reach 1.7 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. Globally 1.1 That must have been truly amazing!

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

The law directs Texas universities and hospitals to lead the research. But experts say the risks can be lowered through heart screenings, close monitoring and giving magnesium before and during treatment, The Times added in its report. It also makes sure the state keeps a share in future profits if the drug is approved.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. If I remember correctly, I think the average was, people were screening positive for depression in this study. David: Exactly.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Naomi: Well, I have a special place of not being a doctor within this great group of people. ” That’s not a spiritual screen. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004. PMID: 38129210.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. So we all went through a pandemic. I guess that’s an event.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. So has a special resonance for, I think, a lot of people who are Tragically H ip fans.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And so we do see hospital admissions for heat exposure and certainly cardiovascular and respiratory problems related to air pollution with climate change and also cognitive problems. Big heat waves in England in 2020, 2,224 excess deaths in the obits over the age of 65. It goes into a whole bunch of different categories.

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