デンマーク・コペンハーゲン–(BUSINESS WIRE)–(ビジネスワイヤ) — サルタリス・メディカル・デバイシズ・インク(SalutarisMD®)は、9月8日に開催される欧州眼科未来フォーラムにおける当社のプレゼンテーションで、当社が新世代の商用対応の上強膜小線源アプリケーターシステムを紹介すると発表しました。最高経営責任者(CEO)のローレンス・マーステラー医師が、滲出型AMD病変での線量測定を改善し、網膜外科医にとっての使いやすさを向上させるよう、新たなSalutarisMDシステム(SMD-DA™)をデザインしたことについて説明します。当社は出展社ブースでも本システムを展示します。ISO認証の監査とCE申請が進行中で、当社は商用製品について年末までにISO 13485認証とCEマークを取得できると見込んでいます。 当社は最近、新たな機能強化デバイスによる次期臨床試験の承認を米国の規制当局から取得しました。当社は第1世代の臨床デバイスによる先の試験を成功裏に完了しました。先の試験は統計的有意性の推定を意図したものではなかったものの、個々の被験者の結果を追跡しました。
Kaiser CEO Bernard Tyson on Balancing Technology and Human Touch
Eric Topol interviews Bernard Tyson about his remarkable career at Kaiser Permanente and about how technology will never substitute for trust and human touch in the patient-physician relationship. Medscape
National Institutes of Health to fund six neural regeneration projects for $12.4 million
The National Institutes of Health announced it will fund six projects for $12.4 million over 3 years to identify biological factors that affect neural regeneration in the retina. The funding and projects are part of the National Eye Institute’s Audacious Goals Initiative. The initiative’s goal is to restore vision by regenerating neurons and their connections in the eye and visual system, according to a press release.
Injury in One Eye Followed by a Hyperopic Shift in the Other
A woman suffers an injury to her right eye that requires surgical repair of a corneal laceration. Two months later, she returns with blurry vision in the left. Can you determine the cause? Medscape Ophthalmology
Growing Trend of Innovative Lenses to Drive the Sunglasses Market until 2020, Says Technavio
LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#Research–The global sunglasses market is expected to grow at a CAGR of around 6% during the forecast period, according to Technavio’s latest report.
Publication Exclusive: Two-year-old girl presents with poor vision, nystagmus and bilateral optic nerve pallor
A 2-year-old girl presented to the New England Eye Center because her parents were concerned about her eyesight. Her parents noticed that she was holding her toys close to her face and that she seemed to have trouble tracking objects. They observed tha…