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Month: May 2011
Senate Rejects Plan to Privatize Medicare
The defeated GOP plan would have given seniors premium subsidies to buy private health insurance, an idea that may not be catching on with the American public. Medscape Medical News
Legal and Malpractice Corner: Transparency and Errors
Challenges continue for physicians as the legal landscape becomes more complex. Battles emerge over public disclosure of physician records and other issues. Medscape Business of Medicine
InSite Vision Receives Special Protocol Assessment From The FDA For The DOUBle Phase 3 Clinical Trial Of AzaSite Plus™ And DexaSite™
InSite Vision Incorporated (OTCBB:INSV) today announced that the Company has reached an agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on a Special Protocol Assessment (SPA) for the design of a Phase 3 clinical trial of AzaSite Plus™ (ISV…
Migraine Relief From Tinted Specs
Precision tinted lenses have been used widely to reduce visual perceptual distortions in poor readers, and are increasingly used for migraine sufferers, but until now the science behind these effects has been unclear…
Robotic Navigation Aids For The Visually Impaired
For the visually impaired, navigating city streets or neighborhoods has constant challenges. And most such people still must rely on a very rudimentary technology – a simple cane – to help them make their way through a complex world…
FDA Schedules Advisory Committee Meeting To Discuss BLA For VEGF Trap-Eye For The Treatment Of Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: REGN) announced that the U.S…
USC engineers to develop robot vision-based mobility aid for blind people
For the visually impaired, navigating city streets or neighborhoods has constant challenges. And most such people still must rely on a very rudimentary technology-a simple cane-to help them make their way through a complex world.
Premium Surgery Should Aim For Perfection
The shrinking U.S. dollar is leading to a division between old-fashioned cataract surgery for those who cannot afford newer technology and premium cataract surgery, which is of increasing interest to U.S. surgeons, a clinician said here. John A. Hovane…
Oraya IRay Update: Company Completes Enrollment in European Clinical Trial
Since first writing about this company in November 2009 (Oraya IRay In-office Stereotactic X-ray Treatment for AMD: A First Report), I have been following its progress. As I wrote back then, its Phase III Clinical Trial, which planned to enroll approxi…
Tinted lenses relieve migraine symptoms, neurological proof
Migraine sufferers really do experience relief when they use tinted specs or lenses, and for the first time functional magnetic resonance imaging appears to provide neurological proof, researchers from Michigan State University and the University of Mi…
"I Can Hear A Building Over There" – Researchers Study Blind People’s Ability To Echolocate
Everybody has heard about echolocation in bats and dolphins. These creatures emit bursts of sounds and listen to the echoes that bounce back to detect objects in their environment. What is less well known is that people can echolocate, too…
Orbital Cellulitis in Children
An emerging pathogen in pediatric orbital infections is identified. How does this change our approach to treatment? Medscape Pediatrics
Risks Associated With Used Football Faceshields
Game-worn football faceshields are more susceptible to breaking when subjected to high-velocity impact than are new faceshields, according to recent research. In the study, researchers used an air cannon to hurl baseballs at new and used polycarbonate …
New faceshields offer protection to football players with amblyopia
Game-worn football faceshields are more susceptible to breaking when subjected to high-velocity impact than are new faceshields, according to recent research.
News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation: May 23, 2011
NEPHROLOGY: Complex inhibition of severe complication of diabetes Diabetic nephropathy is a serious, sometimes lethal, complication of diabetes (both type 1 and type 2 diabetes). The prevalence of this devastating progressive kidney disease, which of…
Valeant to acquire Sanitas for EUR314 million
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. today announced that it has agreed to acquire AB Sanitas for approximately EUR314 million in cash.
Antimetabolites May Increase Likelihood Of Leaking Blebs
ROME – In the quest for successful glaucoma surgery, antimetabolites are more commonly being used, but they are a mixed blessing, according to a speaker here.
Visual Fields Reference Work From Richmond Products
Albuquerque, NM – 23 May 2011. Richmond Products Inc. announces the availability of a major reference publication that documents analyses of visual field disorders identifying the unique aspects of disease or other causes. The book is exceptionally det…
Lycopene bioavailability and metabolism in humans: an accelerator mass spectrometry study
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