May 18 | News
A device which could restore sight to patients with one of
the most common causes of blindness in the developed world is being developed
in an international partnership.
Researchers from the University of Strathclyde and Stanford
University in California...
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May 15 | News
NIDEK, a global leader in the design,
manufacturing, and distribution of ophthalmic equipment, announces the FDA
510(k) Clearance for the AFC-330, their most automated fundus camera yet.
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May 3 | News
First of 12 UK patients receive subretinal implants at leading ophthalmic centres: King's College Hospital and Oxford Eye Hospital LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2012-- Retina Implant AG, the leading developer of subretinal implants for patients blinded by retinitis pigmentosa (RP), today...
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May 3 | News
First of three patients to be implanted at the University of Hong Kong Eye Institute REUTLINGEN, Germany & HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2012-- Retina Implant AG ("Retina Implant"), a leading developer of subretinal implants for the visually impaired, today announced that the first ...
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May 3 | News
Oraya Therapeutics,
Inc. today announced that the INTREPID clinical trial of radiation therapy has
met its primary endpoint of reduction in anti-VEGF injections for patients with
wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD). The INTREPID study is the...
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May 2 | News
TearScience®, Inc., a privately-held medical device
company, today announced that its system for evaporative dry eye, which
includes the LipiView® Ocular Surface Interferometer and LipiFlow® Thermal
Pulsation System, increased in acceptance among eye care physicians...
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Mar 23 | News
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS
WIRE)--Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, will
demonstrate the benefits of using its digital imaging and workflow management
solutions, including the Canon RK-F2 Full Auto Ref-Keratometer, during Vision
Expo East, March 23 – 25, at the Jacob K. Javits...
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Mar 13 | News
WATERTOWN, Mass.--(BUSINESS
WIRE)--pSivida Corp., a leader in developing
sustained release, drug delivery products for treatment of back-of-the-eye
diseases, today announced that it has entered into a technology evaluation
agreement for its bioerodible Durasert™ drug delivery technology...
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Feb 10 | News
SAVANNAH, Ga.--(BUSINESS
WIRE)--Health Discovery Corporation, a molecular diagnostics
leader in the use of patent protected advanced mathematical techniques and
pattern recognition technology (SVM) for personalized medicine, and Doctors
Optimal Formula LLC...
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Feb 2 | News
MORRISVILLE, N.C.--(BUSINESS
WIRE)--TearScience, Inc., a privately-held medical device company,
today announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
clearance for its next generation product of its LipiFlow® Thermal Pulsation
System, a medical device...
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Jan 27 | News
MORRIS PLAINS, N.J.--(BUSINESS
WIRE)--Temptime Corporation, the world leader in time-temperature
indicators, and Numedis, Inc., the developers and manufacturers of
advanced, high-performance corneal preservation systems, have collaborated to
combine technologies that will maintain...
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Jan 12 | News
FREMONT, Calif.
& DUBLIN, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Optovue Inc. and Carl
Zeiss Meditec Inc. announced today that they have signed a settlement agreement
resolving two pending Federal
District Court patent infringement cases. Under
the terms of the agreement, the companies dismissed...
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Jan 11 | Journal Articles
Three patients with chronic, noninfectious uveitis requiring immunosuppressive therapy underwent fluocinolone acetonide (FA) implant exchange complicated by dissociation of the medication reservoir from its anchoring strut. In 2 patients, the medication reservoir descended into...
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Jan 11 | Journal Articles
PURPOSE: To examine the relationship between office-hour changes in IOP, measured with the Goldmann applanation tonometer (GAT) and dynamic contour tonometer (DCT), and the corneal characteristics central corneal thickness (CCT) and corneal hysteresis (CH). METHODS: Sixty-two...
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Jan 11 | Journal Articles
Surgical management of hard cataracts can be problematic despite improvements in phacoemulsification devices. Phaco chop, considered one of the best techniques for dealing with hard cataracts, cannot always divide the hard cataract completely. We have devised a phaco...
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Jan 11 | Journal Articles
OBJECTIVE/AIM: One of the factors limiting the long-term success of glaucoma drainage devices and traditional filtering surgery is the tendency of bleb encapsulation. Glaucoma shunts present an opportunity of introducing drug-eluting mechanisms for a lasting exposure of the...
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Jan 11 | Journal Articles
BACKGROUND: We aimed to examine whether cross-sectional (prevalence) and longitudinal relationships (5-year incidence and 10-year mortality) exist between workplace noise exposure and cardiovascular diseases (CVD). METHODS: 2942 participants aged 55+years of the...
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