Judith Smith, now 71, was at a routine appointment several years ago with her longtime ophthalmologist when the doctor made a comment that her right eye looked a little suspicious for glaucoma, an incurable disease that occurs when the optic nerve is d…
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3D-Printed Placenta-on-a-Chip Mimics Structure of Placental Membrane
Researchers at TU Wien in Vienna have developed a placenta-on-a-chip microfluidic device which uses a femtosecond laser-based 3D-printing method to create a customized hydrogel membrane. The printed membrane is populated with placental cells and mimics the microstructure of the placental barrier. This allows researchers to study how substances, inc (Read more...)
Dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration | A Drug Pipeline Analysis Report 2018 | Technavio
LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#RareDiseases–Technavio has published a new report on the drug development pipeline for dry age-related macular degeneration, including a study of the molecules.
Novel finger-prick test can help prevent toxoplasmosis
A recent study, performed in Chicago and Rabat, Morocco, found that a novel finger-prick test for infection with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii during pregnancy -; and many other potential applications -; is 100 percent sensitive and 100 percent specif…
RightEye Vision Tests with Contextualized Results: Review and Interview
Many readers will be familiar with visiting an eye doctor to receive a range of exams to evaluate attributes such as visual acuity, color blindness, eye movement, depth perception, or the presence of glaucoma. These vision tests focus on the eyes themselves and how well they are functioning. Perhaps less familiar to our readers are […]
SPRINT Peripheral Nerve Stimulator Cleared in U.S. to Treat Chronic and Acute Pain
SPR Therapeutics, a Cleveland, Ohio firm, landed clearance from the FDA for its SPRINT endura and extensa peripheral nerve stimulators (PNS). The endura is a single lead system, while the extensa is dual lead. The two devices represent the only FDA cleared dual-lead capable percutaneous PNS that can be used for up to two m (Read more...)
Fundamental Surgery Virtual Reality Trainer with Force Feedback
FundamentalVR, a firm based in London, UK, is releasing in the United States its Fundamental Surgery virtual reality surgical simulator. The system uses off-the-shelf haptic feedback controllers to manipulate objects in the virtual world. This gives the user the ability to touch what feels like physical objects while working in the virtual scene. B (Read more...)
Hologic Unveils Fluent Fluid Management System for Hysteroscopies
Hologic is releasing a new fluid management system specifically designed for hysteroscopic procedures. The Fluent system aims to simplify, make more efficient, and less frustrating fluid management tasks. The setup is simplified with a modern touchscreen interface, there’s only a one waste bag to worry about, the machine is purportedly q (Read more...)
Yeast Powered Radiation Detectors to Keep Clinicians Safe
Radiation dosimeters are commonly used by clinicians working around CT scanners, fluoroscopes, radiotherapy systems, and other equipment. Typically, after wearing one for a month or so, the detector is sent to the manufacturer and the results come about a week or two later, though real-time smart counters are coming out. All these counters are also (Read more...)
AI in Ophthalmology: A Brave New World Coming
There’s a lot of hype about autonomous artificial intelligence systems, but are they anywhere near ready for prime time? Medscape Ophthalmology
Contact Lenses – World Markets to 2024: Analysis by Technology, Product, Design and Region – ResearchAndMarkets.com
DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “Contact Lenses Market: Global Industry Analysis, Trends, Market Size and Forecasts up to 2024” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. The report predicts the global contact lenses market to grow with a…
NIH Awards $6.5 Million to NDRI for Recovery of Human Tissues and Organs for Research
PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have awarded $6,591,480 to the National Disease Research Interchange (NDRI) to support continued national leadership with the recovery and distribution of human organs and tissues for medical research. The five-year award of the Research Resource for Human Tissues and Organs (RRHTO) Cooperative Agreement funds NDRI’s Human Tissue and Organs for Research Resource (HTORR) Program. Established in 1987, the HTORR Program provide
Second Sight Completes $5.0 million Private Placement of Common Stock with Gregg Williams, Chairman of the Board of Directors
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: EYES) (“Second Sight” or “the Company”), a developer, manufacturer and marketer of implantable visual prosthetics that are intended to create an artificial form of useful vision to blind patients, today announced that it has entered into a stock purchase agreement effective August 14, 2018 with entities beneficially owned by Gregg Williams, Chairman of the Board of Directors, for the purchase of 3,225,807 shares of commo
Mount Sinai study could transform treatment for patients with retinal degenerative diseases
Researchers at Mount Sinai have successfully restored vision in mice through activating retinal stem cells, something that has never been done before. Their study, published in the August 15 online issue of Nature, could transform treatment for patient…
Curious case of the lost contact lens – after 28 years!
A 14 year old girl in United Kingdom around three decades back took a hit in the eye while playing badminton. She then lost her contact lens which was never found. After 28 years, the doctors have found the lens – it was embedded in a cyst in the inner wall of her left eyelid!
Sun Pharma Announces U.S. FDA Approval of CEQUA™ to Treat Dry Eye Disease
MUMBAI, India & PRINCETON, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#Cequa–Sun Pharma announces U.S. FDA approval of CEQUA™ (cyclosporine ophthalmic solution) 0.09%, to treat Dry Eye Disease
Global Intraocular Lens Market Analysis, Trends, Market Size and Forecasts 2016-2024 – ResearchAndMarkets.com
DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “Intraocular Lens Market: Global Industry Analysis, Trends, Market Size and Forecasts up to 2024” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. The report predicts the global intraocular lens market to grow wi…
Drowning in Drugs: An Interview with Carnegie Mellon’s Diane Nelson
One of the most engaging areas of research these days is improving drug delivery. Here at Medgadget, we often share news about technological advances in nanomedicine that promise improved delivery to tumor sites, or newly designed gadgets that increase drug delivering efficacy. Rarely do we hear about attempts to improve drug delivery in the lungs. (Read more...)
This Device Helps Improve Accuracy of Dialysis Catheter Placement
Patients on hemodialysis have to undergo vascular access procedures, typically arteriovenous fistulas or arteriovenous grafts. Some, though, are limited to tunneled cuffed catheters due to heart failure or poor cardiac reserve. Properly placing tunneled cuffed catheters can be challenging and failures can lead to serious complications such as (Read more...)
Automation of Patch Clamp Technique to Speed Brain Studies
The patch clamp technique, for which the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded, is widely used to study the electrical activity of individual cells. It is particularly useful in neuroscience because electricity is the language through which neurons communicate. But it is slow and tedious since it requires a trained specialist to [& (Read more...)