Having secured FDA clearance, Canon is now releasing its CR-2 PLUS digital non-mydriatic retinal camera to the U.S. market. The main feature of the camera over the CR-2 model is its ability to do fundus autofluorescence photography that is used to detect macular residue such as lipofuscin that gathers in the retinal pigment epithelial layer.
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After more than three decades of research, University of Pennsylvania veterinarians and vision-research scientists, with associates at Cornell University, have identified a gene responsible for a blindness-inducing disease that afflicts dogs. In the pr…
STAAR Surgical Company, a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of minimally invasive ophthalmic products, today announced the Visian Implantable Collamer Lens (ICL), and new Visian ICL with CentraFLOW technology utilizing the KS-AquaPORT, were …
The European authorities have given the go ahead for trials to treat patients with Stargardt’s Macular Dystrophy (SMD) using retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). If successful, the trial may pave the way…
Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation, a privately-held, clinical stage biotechnology company developing novel systems to deliver human therapeutics, announces that it has received a grant of $1.5 million from the Foundation Fighting Blindness to fu…
MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–OPKO Health, Inc. (NYSE: OPK) has agreed to sell its ophthalmic instrumentation business to OPTOS, Inc., a subsidiary of Optos plc, a leading and rapidly growing medical technology company engaged in the design, development, man…
GAINESVILLE, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AGTC receives significant grant funding from the Foundation Fighting Blindness to develop treatment for genetic eye disease, XLRS, causing blindness in young boys.
Canaloplasty works just as well as trabeculectomy in reducing intraocular pressure (IOP) in patients with open-angle glaucoma, according to a comparative case series in Ophthalmology.
IRIDEX Corporation today announced that it has exclusively licensed the rights to all of the intellectual property of Ocunetics, Inc., a privately held company based in Alamo, California. Ocunetics develops procedure-enabling medical devices that are …
Canaloplasty works just as well as trabeculectomy in reducing intraocular pressure (IOP) in patients with open-angle glaucoma, according to a comparative case series in Ophthalmology. Reuters Health Information
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Euro RSCG Worldwide PR (ERWW PR) announces the formation of its Health Buzz Group, a global division created in response to growing client interest in big, splashy “wows” from small budgets in quick time frames using traditional and social media to…
Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft), Germany’s leading basic research organization, has announced that it has signed with Fovea Pharmaceuticals, the Ophthalmology Division of Sanofi, a research collaboration and license agreement to identify a…
Advanced Bionics (AB), the only U.S.-based manufacturer of cochlear implants and a subsidiary of Switzerland-based Sonova, announced today the approval of the FDA for immediate market re-entry of the HiRes 90K cochlear implant in the United States…
Sjogren syndrome was in the news recently when tennis player, Venus Williams, was forced to withdraw form the US Open tennis tournament due to symptoms from the disease.
For patients with melanoma near the optic nerve, proton beam radiotherapy offers benefits in terms of eye conservation and low recurrence, but with a tradeoff in visual acuity, according to a new study. Reuters Health Information
The Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft), Germany’s leading basic research organization, announced today that it has signed with Fovea Pharmaceuticals, the Ophthalmology Division of Sanofi, a research collaboration and license agreement to iden…
Experts from The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM) are available for interviews on a variety of back-to-school issues.
Overexposure to antibiotics has long been a concern in the medical community most specifically the development of antibiotic resistant infections as a result of repeated use…
(MedPage Today) — The presence of the lipid-containing yellow plaques known as xanthelasmata on the eyelids is an independent predictor of cardiovascular disease, a large prospective study found.