FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Difficult questions face companies looking to develop new treatments for ophthalmic conditions and for those who hope to have their agents approved by the FDA, a speaker said here.Sustained-release therapies, therapies that bloc…
Modern technologies allow clinicians to assess the heart in all sorts of ways (electrocardiography (ECG), ultrasound, phonocardiography (PCG)), and just about anywhere. Yet, this reality is nowhere near ubiquitous because of high costs, interoperability issues, legacy tools, and frequent dependence on performing exams in a clinical setting by train (Read more...)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. At the Retina World Congress, Kourous A. Rezaei, MD, discusses pearls on retina detachment surgery, such as the use of chandelier illumination in scleral buckling, gleaned from a session here on the subject.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Eyes determined to have macular ischemia by masked qualitative grading of OCT angiography showed a statistically significant decline in capillary perfusion density values when compared with patients in a normal cohort, a speaker…
Most cardiac implants, such as pacemakers and AICDs, are designed to correct the underlying heart’s rhythm, and synchronize atrial and ventricular contractions. That’s how these devices can improve cardiac performance in people with heart failure. They don’t do anything to boost the intrinsic myocardial contractility of the heart. (Read more...)
Most current methods of looking at the activity of the brains of living animals are very limited in their field of view and/or frame rate. This makes it difficult to understand the complex activity taking place inside the brain that involves more than one small region of the organ. This is all rapidly changing as […]