July is Dry Eye Awareness Month, according to the National Eye Institute, which has published a fact sheet about the disease on its website.Dry eye, occurring when the quantity and/or quality of tears fails to keep the surface of the eye lubricated, ca…
Six articles to read for Dry Eye Awareness Month
July is Dry Eye Awareness Month, according to the National Eye Institute, which has published a fact sheet about the disease on its website.Dry eye, occurring when the quantity and/or quality of tears fails to keep the surface of the eye lubricated, ca…
Harmonic Nanoparticles for Theranostic Applications
Researchers from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland have developed new nanoparticles for theranostic (therapeutic and diagnostic) applications. Their work describes the synthesis of these particles and demonstrates that by stimulating at a long, safe wavelength, the nanoparticles can cleave bonds that hold onto dr (Read more...)
Carbon Dioxide-Based Cancer Cryoablation Probe for Low-Resource Regions
Undergraduate researchers at John Hopkins University have developed a cryoablation probe for breast cancer, which uses carbon dioxide instead of argon, making it more affordable and accessible for use in low resource regions. Treatments for women with breast cancer are scarce in poorer places. In fact, survival rates can be as low as 12% [&h (Read more...)
NovaBay Pharmaceuticals Issues Letter to Stockholders
EMERYVILLE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Avenova?src=hash" target="_blank">#Avenova</a>–NovaBay Pharmaceuticals CEO issues letter to stockholders.
Revolutionary gene replacement surgery restores vision in patients with retinal degeneration
More than a year after becoming one of the first medical institutions nationally to complete a revolutionary gene replacement surgery to restore vision in patients with retinal degeneration, surgeons at the of The Vision Center at Children’s Hospital L…