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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

While it is really difficult to manufacture a contact lens, which is one-third of a millimetre in diameter, a 3D printer sandwiches together different layers of interacting material, which makes it easier to match tiny pieces. The disease is quite common among diabetes patients, and if it is not spotted early enough, it may cause blindness.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

And that’s what makes these issues so challenging, because at one level, we use the same term to refer to that incredibly multifactorial, complicated, complex condition as we do to stress incontinence, which is also complex in its own way. But the solutions, as we’ll get to in a few minutes, are completely different.

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