Author: Medgadged

Tiny Eye Implant Automatically Regulates Intraocular Pressure

While measuring the intraocular pressure can help diagnose and track a number of health conditions (especially, glaucoma), there’s currently no existing method that can regulate the pressure within the eye. So while there are ways to delay the onset of serious symptoms, patients with certain eye conditions eventually suffer from an either too (Read more...)

NovaBay’s intelli-Case Makes Cleaning Contact Lenses with Hydrogen Peroxide a Cinch (VIDEO)

Contact lens wearers have the option of disinfecting contacts using hydrogen peroxide solutions. Though it may be the optimal way of ensuring clean lenses, many people use other solutions that come with less risk and more convenience. NovaBay Pharmaceuticals, a company out of Emeryville, CA, won FDA clearance for a small device that makes using hyd (Read more...)

Eyenuk EyeArt Software Automatically Screens Fundus Images for Signs of Diabetic Retinopathy

Eyenuk, a Woodland Hills, California company, won the European CE mark for its EyeArt software that analyzes images of the retina taken using fundus cameras to help detect diabetic retinopathy (DR). The software requires nothing more than a well produced color retinal image and has shown a sensitivity of detecting DR often better than human profess (Read more...)

Eye Lenses Designed With Significantly Reduced Halo Effect

Extended depth of focus and multifocal lenses, including contact and intraocular ones, tend to create a halo effect in certain light conditions. It can be distracting and even dangerous, particularly at dusk and night when looking at bright point sources such as traffic lights. Researchers from Bar-Ilan University in Israel have come upon a wa (Read more...)

New Medical Device to Bring Tears to Your Dry Eyes

Serious dry eye can be quite debilitating and current therapies like eye drops and cyclosporine are either difficult to manage or don’t really fix the problem. Eye drops require refrigeration, so keeping them cold and handy is a challenge. Cyclosporine, on the other hand, only treats the inflammation and has a low rate of patient complia (Read more...)

Noninvasive Neural Stimulation Projects at Stanford

A wide variety of medical conditions arise from either inactive or overactive neurons in the brain and other parts of the body. Being able to control neurons to fire correctly may help treat many diseases and researchers at Stanford University are hard at work studying how transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and ultrasound can make that happen.

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Stem Cell BioGenerator to Help Repair Broken Hearts

NuVascular Technologies (Ashland, MA) has partnered with Worcester Polytechnic Institute and BioSurfaces, Inc. (Ashland, MA) to introduce the BioGenerator stem cell device for clinical applications. The device holds stem cells produced at Worcester from adult bone marrow cells. It can either be attached to the heart wall or injected into cardiac ti (Read more...)

Fitbit’s New Heart Rate Monitoring Trackers Now Available

Fibit just has just announced that it’s making available two new fitness trackers with heart rate monitoring capabilities. The Fitbit Charge HR and Fitbit Surge, like other heart rate wrist worn trackers, use green LEDs on the rear to detect the pulse as blood flows through the veins and capillaries. You must have solid contact with the (Read more...)

Bellafill FDA Approved to Treat Acne Scars

Acne scars from teenage years stay with some throughout their lives, affecting a good chunk of the population and making millions of women apply dense layers of makeup to their face. It’s a constant reminder of one’s age and a source of regret for not taking care of acne when it was active. Now there’s a solution, thanks to an FDA (Read more...)