Bausch + Lomb, the global eye health company, has appointed three industry veterans to key management roles in its Surgical business. Brad Paddock has been hired as vice president, Sales; Anthony Sine is appointed vice president, Business Development…
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New Standard Approved for Toric Intraocular Lenses
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Z80 Accredited Standards Committee for Ophthalmic Optics is pleased to announce a new standard for toric intraocular lenses (IOL) ANSI Z80.30. The standard applies to any monofocal IOL whose primary i…
Allergan Introduces Restasis Co-Pay Tool Helping Eye Care Professionals Better Estimate Patient Payments
Allergan Inc. today announced a new digital tool designed to help eye care professionals quickly and easily determine patient co-pays when prescribing Restasis. The online Restasis Co-pay Lookup tool allows eye care professionals to enter a patients …
NicOx Announces Third Quarter Finanial Results and Update on Business Restructuring
NicOx S.A. today reported financial results for the nine months ended September 30, 2010 and announced further details of a restructuring of its activities, which is expected to lead to a significant reduction in cash burn for 2011. Michele Garufi, C…
Inspire Launches New Educational Web Site, "Inspired Icare"
Inspire Pharmaceuticals Inc. has launhed a new, interactive educational web site,”Inspired Icare.” The site, www.inspiredicare.com, offers information about ocular disease states, including allergic conjunctivitis, bacterial conjunctivitis, blepharit…
Freedom Meditech Fills Executive Team
Freedom Meditech, Inc., the developer of non-invasive, ophthalmic-based products to detect and manage diabetes, today announced the appointment of Keith D. Ignotz as President & Chief Operating Officer and John F. Burd, Ph.D. as Chief Science Off…
Optometrists, Ophthalmologists Don’t See Eye to Eye on Bill
Optometrists in South Carolina have pushed two bills to expand their scope of practice to include some procedures that ophthalmologists do. Both bills failed to advance. And while optometrists say they haven’t decided whether to pursue legislation ag…
Teens Risking Blindness by Wearing Unprescribed ‘Circle’ Contacts
Trendy new contact lenses promised to make his brown eyes blue and huge. But when Lucas Dixon tried a pair of $20 contact lenses from an urban clothing store, he got far more. Within days, the 20-year-old Oklahoma City man awoke to swollen eyes and p…
Novartis Wins Challenge Against J&J Over Its French Contact Lens Patent
Novartis AG won an appeals court bid in Paris to uphold the French portion of its European patent for extended-wear lenses, defeating claims by Johnson & Johnson to overturn the intellectual-property protection. The ruling by Frances Court of App…
Lasik Eye Surgery – FDA Releases Quality Of Life Project Update
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released an update on a three-phase study of the LASIK procedure carried out to improve vision, in order to assess the impact that the LASIK procedure has on the quality of life of those who choose…
Missouri Eye Doctor Receives Federal Grant to Help Injured Soldiers
St. Johns Medical Research Institute has been awarded a $4.8 million grant from the U.S. Department in Defense to develop products to help soldiers who suffer eye injuries.The grant was announced at a press conference Tuesday.Dr. Shachar Tauber, the …
Corneal Lens Implant with Built-In Vision Correction Safe, Effective
At the AAO, Ioannis G. Pallikaris, MD, of the University Hospital of Crete, Greece, reported on a new type of micro-lens, the Flexivue (Presbia Coperatief UA; Amsterdam, Netherlands) that was implanted in the corneas of 15 patients with 12-month foll…
Intracor Technique Effective in Reshaping the Cornea Without Breaking the Surface
At the AAO, Mike P. Holzer, MD, of the University of Heidelberg, Germany, presented 2-year follow-up data on Intracor (Technolas Perfect Vision GmbH; Munich, Germany) presbyopia correction technique in 25 patients, according to a news release. The te…
Ziemer Group Announces Product Upgrades
Ziemer Group (Port, Switzerland) unveiled its Femto LDV Crystal Line and launched its Dual Scheimpflug Camera System at the AAO Annual Meeting.The Femto LDV Crystal Line, known as Z-LASIK Crystal Plus, has a pulse rate of more than 5 MHz. According t…
Blind People Perceive Touch Faster Than Those With Sight
People who are blind from birth are able to detect tactile information faster than people with normal vision, according to a study in the Oct. 27 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The brain requires a fraction of a second to register a sight, sou…
Retinopathy Data Suggests Lowering Diagnostic Threshold
The threshold for a diabetes diagnosis should be reduced to a fasting plasma glucose of 6.5 mmol/L or an HbA1c of 6.5%, according to new research correlating glycaemic control with changes on retinal photos in more than 44,000 individuals. The DETECT…
Optic Nerve Hypoplasia With Pituitary Anomaly on MRI Correlates With Hypopituitarism
A pituitary anomaly on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can predict which children with optic nerve hypoplasia (ONH) also have hypopituitarism, an endocrine disorder that can be fatal if untreated, researchers say. The study was presented here as a s…
Federal Agencies Keep a Sharp Eye on LASIK-Associated Problems
A clinical trial of laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) procedures slated to begin at the Naval Medical Center San Diego, in California, during the next 3 months will serve as a template for a national study looking at the safety and effect…
TruFocals Adjustable Focus Eyeglasses Re-Brands as Superfocus
Superfocus LLC, formerly known as Zoom Focus Eyewear LLC, announced today the new brand campaign for Superfocus, the award winning adjustable focus eyeglasses formerly known as TruFocals. The new name reflects the benefits Superfocus provides to indi…
Synergetics USA Announces New Products and Record Sales Lead Generation at AAO
Synergetics USA, Inc., a medical device company that designs, manufactures, and markets innovative devices for ophthalmic and neurosurgical applications, today announced record sales leads generated from the presentation of recently released ophthalm…