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MingSight And Relin Form A Joint Venture In China To Develop A Novel Treatment For The Diabetic Eye Disease
Shenzhen Relin Medicine (“Relin”), a leading Chinese ophthalmic pharmaceutical company, and MingSight Pharmaceuticals (“MingSight”), an innovation driven ophthalmic R&D company, today announced the formation of a joint venture, Jiangsu MingSight-Relin …
HIMS Announces Industry’s First Voice Recognition Multi-function DAISY Player Designed For Blind And Low Vision People
HIMS a worldwide leader in the research, development, and manufacturing of assistive technology products for blind and visually impaired people, today announced the industry’s first voice recognition DAISY player. The voice recognition capability is av…
Smart Glasses to Help People With Poor Vision to Navigate, Recognize People and Things
Oxford University is touting the work of its researchers who are building a special set of electronic glasses that may help people with all sorts of vision conditions. Cameras in the frame would analyze the scene ahead and active glass would display important things either in a different part of the frame of view or interpret it with colors, brightness, and basic representations. The idea is being profiled at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition where visitors get to see how the system would function.
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Lifestyle, Diet Can Significantly Influence Course Of Macular Degeneration Among Individuals With The Same Genetic Susceptibility
Eating a diet high in vitamin D, as well as the nutrients betaine and methionine, might help reduce the risk of macular degeneration, according to new research conducted by Tufts Medical Center scientists. Their study of identical twins from the US Wor…
Nearsightedness Linked to Open-Angle Glaucoma
Nearsighted people may have nearly twice the average risk for glaucoma, according to a new meta-analysis. Reuters Health Information
Healthy diet might help reduce risk of macular degeneration
Eating a diet high in vitamin D, as well as the nutrients betaine and methionine, might help reduce the risk of macular degeneration, according to new research conducted by Tufts Medical Center scientists. Their study of identical twins from the US Wor…
Award For Work To Slow Progression Of Myopia In Children
Earl L. Smith III, O.D., dean of the College of Optometry at the University of Houston (UH), recently received an award for his work in slowing the progression of nearsightedness in children…
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Twin Study Shows Lifestyle, Diet Can Significantly Influence Course Of Macular Degeneration Among Individuals With The Same Genetic Susceptibility
Twin study shows lifestyle, diet can significantly influence course of macular degeneration among individuals with the same genetic susceptibility
Medicare Cuts for Imaging Could Cut Access to Care
The American College of Radiology and others say paying physicians less for interpreting multiple, same-day imaging exams will shift more business to pricier hospitals and hurt access to care. Medscape Medical News
Three Glaucoma Societies Join World Glaucoma Association
Two countries in South America and one in North Africa have become member societies of the World Glaucoma Association in the past 2 years, according to a presenter here.
Consensus Statements Define Options For Glaucoma Medical Therapy
Prostaglandin analogues are recommended as first-line treatment for most glaucoma cases, with IOP-lowering effect the definitive comparative efficacy for an ocular hypotensive agent, a clinician said here.
New Treatment Approach For Use In Usher Syndrome Patients On The Horizon
Usher syndrome is the most common form of combined congenital deaf-blindness in humans and affects 1 in 6,000 of the population. It is a recessive inherited disease that is both clinically and genetically heterogeneous. In the most severe cases, patien…
Treatment Approach To Human Usher Syndrome
New treatment approach shall soon be ready for use in Usher syndrome patients / Publication in “Human Gene Therapy”. Usher syndrome is the most common form of combined congenital deaf-blindness in humans and affects 1 in 6,000 of the population. It is …
Ranibizumab Improves Diabetic Macular Edema
Preplanned subanalysis shows that ranibizumab injection improves vision in patients with diabetic macular edema, regardless of glucose level control. Medscape Medical News
Drug Delivery Device Uses Magnets to Treat Diabetic Retinopathy
Diabetic retinopathy is a complication of diabetes mellitus that can eventually lead to blindness. Current treatments are not the terribly effective or reliable. For example, drugs in the form of eye drops often have a lower than desirable rate of diffusion into the eye, as well as potential systemic side effects. And, for obvious reasons, most patients aren’t too fond of the more direct needle in the eye approach.
At the University of British Columbia, researchers have developed a novel device that will make drug treatment for diabetic retinopathy safer and more effective. The device, no larger than the head of a pin, consists of a sealed reservoir made of flexible polydimethylsiloxane that is implanted behind the eye. Part of the reservoir’s flexible membrane is magnetic; an electric field applied to the device causes the magnetic membrane to deform and release a controlled amount of drug out of a small hole, much in the same way water is released from a plastic bottle when it’s squeezed.
The World’s First 3D LASIK AND Tennessee’s First 3D Cataract Surgery Performed
Dr. Ming Wang of Wang Vision Cataract & LASIK Center, Nashville, TN, became the first surgeon in the world to perform a 3D LASIK procedure, and the first in Tennessee to perform a 3D cataract surgery. The first such ground-breaking surgeries took place…
The World’s First 3D LASIK AND Tennessee’s First 3D Cataract Surgery Performed
Dr. Ming Wang of Wang Vision Cataract & LASIK Center, Nashville, TN, became the first surgeon in the world to perform a 3D LASIK procedure, and the first in Tennessee to perform a 3D cataract surgery. The first such ground-breaking surgeries took place…
New Drug Delivery Device Invented To Treat Diabetes-Related Vision Loss
A team of engineers and scientists at the University of British Columbia has developed a device that can be implanted behind the eye for controlled and on-demand release of drugs to treat retinal damage caused by diabetes. Diabetic retinopathy is the l…