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Brain Injury to Optometry -- What's in the FAA Update Bag This Time?

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No Waivers Required for Pilots With Diabetes? It's Coming!

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FAA Updates on POTS plus Meeting With Juice

4

Updates from the FAA on Endocrine Abnormalities: You and Your Glands

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Updates from the Highest Perch of FAA Medical: Chat with Dr. Susan Northrup, Federal Air Surgeon

6

FAA Medical Kits, Disqualifying Drugs, and Misplaced Certificates

7

Uh oh! Does a DUI arrest or conviction end it all for a flying career?

8

FAA Updates on Achy Breaky Hearts

9

News for Snoozin' and Cruisin'

10

Time to Quit Smoking -- And Not Lose Your Medical

11

The HIMS Program and Benefits to Pilots and Families

12

Hormone Replacement and Osteoproosis for Pilots

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Maybe Not Too Spicy: FAA Medical Updates for Acid Reflux to Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

14

Go With the Flow: Updates on drones and clots

15

Restructuring for the Future and Updating GI Conditions

16

Holiday Happiness in the "Land of Misfit Toys"

17

Discover a "Secret Resource" to Speed Up Your Aeromedical Certification

18

Seeing Through Glaucoma

19

Certification After Sudden Cardiac Death Episodes or with Brugada Pattern on ECG

20

Wheeze Bad -- A Short Primer on Certification with Respiratory Issues

21

Legal Beagles - Aeromedical Certification from the Perspective of an Aviation Attorney

22

Government shutdown? What now? Let's talk Skin Cancer

23

FAA Updates from the Civil Aviation Medical Association meeting and AME Grand Rounds

24

Will Low Platelet Counts Prevent Issuing a Medical Certificate?

25

Atrial Fibrillation: A Fluttering Heart and Aeromedical Implications

26

Head Trauma and the Pilot: Boo boo on the Noggin' to Skull Fractures and Brain Bleeds

27

Searching for the "Cog" in the Wheels of the Mind: Neuropsychology Testing in Pilots

28

Alphabet Soup of Aeromedical Certification Acronyms

29

EAA's AirVenture Highlights and Hosting an FAA AME Refresher Seminar

30

What Happens When an AME is the Patient/Pilot?

31

Dark Pee? Think Hep C! Navigating FAA Certification with Hepatitis

32

Leading for the Future of Aerospace Medicine

33

Cheating on the FAA Medical Application Form 8500-8 (or Just an Oversight)??

34

Spring Brings Pollen and a Push for Supercharging ATC Hiring

35

The FAA is Listening: Do You Know About the "3Es?"

36

FAA Certification for the "Baby Brother of Diabetes" -- Pre-Diabetes

37

HIMS -- Not just a Pronoun!

38

"I passed out and I have no idea what happened." Now what?

39

Scanning the Heart with CT imaging: Good idea for pilots, or not?

40

MedXPress or MedXSlow? You Make the Call

41

What Happens if Your Kidneys Get Stoned?

42

Another AME Joins the Mayo Team

43

So I was Walking Along the Beach Minding My Own Business When.....

44

Broken Heart on Valentine's Day? How to Get Your FAA Medical With Bundle Branch Block or a Heart Transplant

45

What Happens After a Valve Job?

46

My Achy Breaky Heart and the FAA

47

What a Headache!

48

The Questions Keep Coming -- New FAA Color Vision Rules for Pilots

49

There's a New Kid in Town (and it Isn't Santa!)

50

The Eyes Have It -- Part 2

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Color Vision Testing Changes Are Coming Soon (and Expect More Denial Letters From the FAA on the Horizon)

52

Is Basic Med Really That Basic?

53

An "Ironic" Liver Condition

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How to Keep Your Medical When You Are Diagnosed With Low T

55

The Pet Peeves of AMEs

56

Cancer Where It Counts

57

Breast Cancer and Aeromedical Certification

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Funnel Chest and Speech Impediments: Autumn has Arrived!

59

Whole LADA Shakin' Goin' On

60

Pace Yourself

61

On Track to Stop the Plaque: Psoriasis and Aeromedical Certification

62

Headscratching Anecdotes Solved for You

63

Ironman Pilots

64

Time for a valve job?

65

Drones to Stones

66

Walking Through AirVenture, the Future of Aviation, and Hepatitis C

67

Don't Let High Blood Pressure Bring You Down

68

Back on Track

69

Protect Your Beans -- Getting Certified With Chronic Kidney Disease

70

Change is in the Air! Streamlining is Coming to the Certification Process

71

Is it a Shakedown -- or Just Essential Tremor?

72

Ouch! The Aches and Pains of Arthritis on the FAA Medical Application

73

Whisperings at ASMA and Updates on Weight Loss Drugs

74

Wheeze Bad

75

Got rhythm? Atrial Fibrillation and How To Maintain Your Medical Certificate

76

Thyroid Disease: Does this "Black Box" Gland "Box" Your Medical?

77

The ARC Sails Into New Waters of Mental Health Awareness

78

Pour Some Sugar on Me

79

What's That Sound? Drone on...........

80

The Eyes Have It

81

Getting Inside A HIMS Psychiatrist's Head

82

The Ups and Downs of Hot Air Ballooning

83

Things That Go Bump in the Night: A Pilot's Primer on Sleep Apnea

84

Eating Your Alphabet Soup

85

When to Say When?: The Age 67 Proposal

86

Be Prepared

87

When the Wheels Fall Off

88

Pay Attention, Its Time for ADHD.

89

EAA Airventure Recap and Well Well Wellbutrin!

90

Tribulation and Jet Lag

91

Im Back with Back Pain

92

Me, Myself, and COVID

93

Frequent Flyer Questions

94

Skin Cancer and Aviation

95

You Down With CBD? Yeah You Know Me

96

Color Vision: A Word of Caution

97

Steroids and Masks!

98

The DUI/DWI Talk and The Flying Dangers of Viagra

99

Kava Kava: The Other Piper

100

Down with Delta