NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–In a clinical evaluation, Smart Vision Lab’s SVOne, a handheld, smartphone-based autorefractor, proved to be comparable with office-based technology and subjective refraction.
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FDA Accepts PMA Submission for ReVision Optics’ Raindrop Near Vision Inlay
LAKE FOREST, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ReVision Optics, Inc. (RVO®), a leader in implantable presbyopia-correcting corneal inlay technology, announces that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted and deemed fileable the company’s premarket approval (PMA) submission for the Raindrop® Near Vision Inlay. The Raindrop is a microscopic hydrogel inlay designed to correct presbyopia, thus reducing or eliminating the need for reading glasses. Acceptance and filing of the submission mean
New method may extend use of noninvasive prenatal testing to detect chromosomal abnormalities
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine developed a method to expand the types of chromosomal abnormalities that noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) can detect. The study, published November 9 by Proceedings of the Nat…
Macular degeneration may be treatable with Parkinson’s drug
A study that mined a vast reservoir of data suggests L-DOPA – a drug frequently prescribed for Parkinson’s patients – may be used to prevent and delay macular degeneration.
L-DOPA drug may delay or prevent age-related macular degeneration
A drug already used safely to treat Parkinson’s disease, restless leg syndrome and other movement disorders also could delay or prevent the most common cause of blindness affecting more than 9 million older Americans – age-related macular degeneration …
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Zero energy phaco possible without a laser
Cataract surgeons have an addiction. We are ever in the pursuit of better outcomes for our patients with faster recovery times. With each technological leap in phaco machines and platforms, instruments and now laser-assisted cataract surgery, cataract …