A team at Mexico’s Medical and Surgical Center for Retina, a small firm of about a dozen people, has created a smartphone software that can help general medical practitioners spot eye conditions that currently require a specialist to diagnose. The app is not intended to replace ophthalmologists, but was designed instead to help direct pa (Read more...)
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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...)
Driving Simulator to be Used to Assess Lenses for Cataract Surgery
The University of Iowa is reporting that a new eye lens developed to replace native ones in cataract patients is to be trialed for its novel ability of reducing the halo effect common in current implantable lenses. We’ve written about similar technology, but can’t confirm the same team is behind it. Though the lenses are interesting in (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...)
A Low-Cost Digital Ophthalmoscope for Your Smartphone [Interview]
Ophthalmoscopes aren’t the easiest things to use. Practicing for clinical exams, groups of medical students get together and when one exclaims “I SEE IT I SEE IT!”, nobody else seems to be able to verify the findings. I’m a second year medical student myself, and I think I’ve found one optic disc in an u (Read more...)
Pixium Vision Implants Restore Sight in Rats with Retinal Degeneration, Humans Next (VIDEO)
Prima Vision, a company based in Paris, France, is reporting that its PRIMA wireless subretinal implants for people who lost their vision has show a great deal of promise in a pre-clinical trial. The technology is designed specifically for those whose natural photoreceptors no longer function, yet who retain retinal neurons that can be el (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...)
KAMRA Inlay Corneal Implant to Replace Reading Glasses FDA Approved
Owning reading glasses is a part of growing up, but for many people that start wearing them in their later years it can be downright awkward and uncomfortable. Now a new device, just approved by the FDA, may offer certain folks with presbyopia a new way of addressing the condition.
The KAMRA inlay from Acufocus (Irvine, CA) is implanted into the co (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...)
IRIS Fundus Camera Automatically Spots Eye Conditions (VIDEO)
Intelligent Retinal Imaging Systems, a company out of Pensacola, Florida, received FDA clearance for its IRIS automated fundus camera for screening patients for diabetic retinopathy, macular edema, glaucoma, and other eye related conditions. The device, the first of its kind, doesn’t require professional ophthalmolog (Read more...)
Rice mobileVision Device Lets Patients Image Their Own Retinas (VIDEO)
Engineers at Rice University have developed a prototype device that may one day allow patients to screen their eyes for signs of macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. Modern ophthalmoscopes can already be connected to smartphones for easy image sharing, allowing remote ophthalmologists to help with diagnosis. Yet, properly aligning the ins (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...)
JINS MEME Smart Eyewear Monitor Eye Movement, Blinking, Body Motion
We previously mentioned that wearables were huge at the 2015 International CES a couple weeks ago, but with so many companies coming out with their own versions of fitness bands, we got excited when we would come across a wearable that was located on the body someplace other than your wrist.
JINS, a popular Japanese eyewear designer, has (Read more...)
BBS Revolution Automatic Bladder Volume Measurement Device FDA Cleared
dBMEDx, a company with offices in Denver, Colorado and Bellevue, Washington, won FDA clearance to introduce its BBS Revolution automated bladder volume measurement device. It’s intended to help clinicians assess whether a patient really needs that catheter that is so often the source of urinary tract infections.
The ultrasound device requires (Read more...)
Veta Smart EpiPen Case Helps Keep Patients Safe from Anaphylaxis (VIDEO)
Forgetting your wallet or purse at home is one thing, but if you’re severely allergic to a food, forgetting your EpiPen (epinephrine injection) can be life threatening. A new device will soon be available to help keep the EpiPen near and to automatically notify loved ones whenever it’s used.
The Veta smart case has sensors built-in and (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.
(Read more...)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...)
Graphene Delivers Two Cancer Drugs to Surface and Interior of Tumor Cells
Graphene, a single atom thick material for which a Nobel Prize was awarded, has been hailed as a substance that will change our future. Yet, practical applications for its use in electronics, sensing, and other industries have been slow to materialize. Instead, we may see its most beneficial uses first come to medicine as a team from North Car (Read more...)