Hospital admissions due to eye trauma have declined since 2001, but more and more patients are being admitted with a secondary diagnosis of eye trauma, largely due to an increase in falls among older people, new findings suggest. Reuters Health Infor…
Month: October 2018
FDA Clears First App-Only Product for Detecting Atrial Fibrillation
FibriCheck, a Belgian firm, won FDA clearance for its smartphone application that is capable of spotting signs of atrial fibrillation, simply by using the phone’s camera. The user places a finger over the camera lens on the back of the phone and initiates the app to do its thing. The app utilizes photoplethysmography to optically watch […]
MIT’s Non-Invasive Glucometer as Accurate as Finger Pricks In Early Clinical Study
Non-invasive blood glucose measurement remains one of the most intriguing challenges for medical technology. While we’ve been promised prick-free glucometry by various companies and institutions, researchers at MIT are getting close to the elusive goal. They have developed a fiber-optic probe coupled Raman system that, when placed against the skin has been shown in an early […]
Biodegradable Implant Stimulates Injured Nerves to Speed Up Healing
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine and Northwestern University created an implant to deliver electric impulses to damaged nerves, helping to heal them, and that eventually biodegrades and leaves the body. It’s about the size of a U.S. quarter coin and operates for about two weeks before losing power and breaking up into microscopic […]
Enrollment complete in Zimura trial for geographic atrophy
Patient recruitment is complete for a phase 2b clinical trial of Zimura monotherapy for geographic atrophy secondary to dry age-related macular degeneration, Ophthotech announced in a press release.The randomized, double-masked, sham-controlled, multic…
Trump administration says it’s ending ACA ‘sabotage,’ experts say it comes at great risk to patients
The average premium for the second lowest cost silver health insurance plans — the one used to determine final premium tax credits — will drop by a “historical” 1.5% for the first-time since the implementation of the federally-facilitated exchange in 2…
Media Advisory: US Department of Health & Human Services “Healthcare Startup Day Minnesota”
MINNEAPOLIS & ST. PAUL, Minn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#HHS–University of Minnesota and Medical Alley Association Media Advisory for “Healthcare Startup Day Minnesota” on Monday, Oct. 15
VIDEO: Research investigates impact of Bowman’s layer on corneal biomechanics
VIENNA — At the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Emilio Torres, MD, speaks about his research on the role of Bowman’s layer in corneal biomechanics.
Medgadget 2018 Sci-Fi Writing Contest: Win The Eko Digital Stethoscope
It’s that time of the year when we call on technological visionaries, medical futurists, and creative people of all kinds to submit medical science fiction stories to our annual Medgadget Sci-Fi Writing Contest. At Medgadget, we keep a record of the progress of medical technologies and hope to inspire you to imagine a future where medicine is able to […]
U.S. Dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration Market & Competitive Landscape (2018-2023) – ResearchAndMarkets.com
DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “US Dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration Market and Competitive Landscape – 2018” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. The latest research US Dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration Market and Competitiv…
Researchers design modeling system to infer relationships between genes, drugs, and their environment
A team of researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the University of Washington has designed a modeling system that integrates genomic and temporal information to infer causal relationships between genes, drugs, and their environm…
Novaliq Raises New Capital to Accelerate the Commercialization of its Lead Products for Dry Eye Disease
HEIDELBERG, Germany–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#AFT–Novaliq, a specialty pharmaceutical company for the development and commercialization of first- and best-in-class ocular therapeutics based on EyeSol®, the worldwide first water-free technology for ophthalmol…
Premature babies with low levels of blood platelets have increased risk of blindness
Premature babies with low levels of platelets (thrombocytes) in their blood run a greatly increased risk of being afflicted with a severe variation of retinopathy of prematurity, an eye disease that can cause blindness, according to a study from Sweden…
VIDEO: New research might overcome corneal thickness limitations for CXL treatment
VIENNA — At the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Farhad Hafezi, MD, PhD, speaks about a new way of cross-linking extremely thin keratoconic corneas by adapting the fluence individually to the patients’ corneal thickness. A …
Nightstar’s gene therapy for X-linked retinitis pigmentosa shows positive early results
NSR-RPGR, a gene therapy treatment for X-linked retinitis pigmentosa, showed positive preliminary results in a phase 1/2 dose-escalation study, Nightstar Therapeutics announced in a press release.The open-label, dose-ranging, single-eye XIRIUS trial, w…
US Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration Market and Competitive Landscape 2018 – ResearchAndMarkets.com
DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “US Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration Market and Competitive Landscape – 2018” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. US Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration Market and Competitive Landscape – 2018 p…
Young woman presents with binocular diplopia and pain with extraocular movements
A 28-year-old woman presented to the Lahey Eye Clinic reporting a 1-week history of constant binocular, horizontal diplopia. In addition to the diplopia, she described pain with extraocular movements and an associated frontal headache. She denied any b…
Updates in pediatric cataract surgery
Pediatric cataracts may be unilateral or bilateral, congenital or acquired, and represent about 5% to 20% of global pediatric blindness. Pediatric cataract surgery can be challenging both in the operating room and after surgery with regard to clinical …
Topical recombinant human nerve growth factor an innovation in ocular surface disease treatment
On Aug. 22, the FDA approved Oxervate, the first drug for the treatment of neurotrophic keratitis; it is produced by the Italian pharmaceutical company Dompé. Cenegermin was approved in the European Union as an eye drop formulation for the treatment of…
Sustained delivery system intended to ease AMD treatment burden
A new port delivery system may secure sustained, long-term release of anti-VEGF in patients with wet age-related macular degeneration, easing the burden of repeated injections. The implantable device was recently tested in a phase 2 trial with positive…