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9 Technologies That Will Shape The Future Of Dentistry

The Medical Futurist

For dentists, it’s transforming diagnosis, decision-making, and treatment planning. Smart toothbrush While AI helps dental professionals provide better treatments, smart toothbrushes enable all of us to take better care of our teeth. This image is then relayed to a machine that manufactures the crown right in the office.

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Is my Software a Medical Device? Use the Digital Health Policy Navigator

FDA Law

If you are a manufacturer of implants that go into the human body for the treatment of disease, it’s an easy yes that you are a manufacturer of a medical device. or other similar or related article” which is “intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions.”

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The Healthcare Vision of ChatGPT-4o and Multimodal LLMs

The Medical Futurist

It will break language barriers These M-LLMs will easily facilitate communication between healthcare providers and patients who speak different languages, translating between various languages in real time. Just as we’ve seen how live translation works with ChatGPT-4o.

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Proposed LDT Rule Raises Many Questions but Provides Few Answers

FDA Law

The crux of the proposed rule lies in the addition of ten words: “ including when the manufacturer of these products is a laboratory.” These words would be added to the definition of “ in vitro diagnostic [IVD] products” in 21 C.F.R. In addition, FDA proposes to continue to exercise enforcement discretion (i.e.,

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

Researchers say that the implant cannot provide any highly detailed vision – but it can help patients detect distinct patterns such as door frames and shapes. The journal Nature provided a commentary report on HKUST’s research into the bionic eye. The paper, recently published in PLOS , summarises three years of data.

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COVID At-Home Antigen Tests: If at First You Don’t Succeed Try, Try and Try Again

FDA Law

These practical benefits are in marked contrast to molecular COVID-19 tests that are used for definitive diagnosis and are generally expected to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus at least 95% of the time when someone is infected. After two negative tests, you should consider a molecular test, or call your healthcare provider.

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Out At Home: FDA’s Vocal Support of Home Testing but Reluctance to Clear Novel OTC Home Tests

FDA Law

To obtain clearance of an OTC home IVD, a sponsor must provide the usual suite of analytical and clinical validation that would be required for any IVD, demonstrating adequate repeatability, stability, sensitivity, specificity, and so on. HbA1c, diagnosis of a particular virus, etc.). seeking treatment).