WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — At Hawaiian Eye, Con Moshegov, MD, discusses how patients can benefit from the Glaukos iStent device before cataract surgery.
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Senate health committee considers seven biomedical innovation bills
The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions will consider seven bipartisan bills on biomedical innovation tomorrow, Feb. 9, at the first of three executive sessions.“Senators and staff on our committee have been working together throughout 2015 to produce a number of bipartisan pieces of legislation that are ready for the full committee to consider,” Committee Chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said in a press release. “The House has completed its work on the 21st Century Cures Act. The president has announced his support for a precision medicine initiative and a cancer ‘moonshot.’ It is urgent that the Senate finish its work and turn into law these ideas that will help virtually every American.”
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Rate of retinal detachment after bag-in-the-lens IOL implantation similar to rate after traditional implantation
The incidence of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment after bag-in-the-lens IOL implantation corresponds to the rate observed after lens-in-the-bag IOL implantation, according to a study.The prospective cohort study evaluated 1,323 consecutive cases of ba…
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