PLEASANTON, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–In support of the CDC’s Contact Lens Health Week, one of CooperVision’s top optometrists offers tips to help educate contact lens wearers about how to keep their eyes as healthy as possible.
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Medicine in India: Rough Road to Physician Accountability
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OSN APAO: With novel approaches to biometry, refractive outcomes of cataract surgery more accurate but still inconsistent
New IOL technologies and heightened patient expectations for precise refractive results have given a great boost to biometry and IOL power calculations. Remarkable improvements have been seen in recent years, and about 1,000 citations for optical biometry now appear in PubMed.However, “we are still far from perfect,” according to Oliver Findl, MD. “The EUREQUO database, which includes more than 1 million cataract operations, shows that there are a lot of outliers out there. This is the real world: 78% of the eyes are within 1 D. Particularly with short eyes, more than 50% have at least 0.5 D of refractive error.”
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RetroSense Therapeutics’ Lead Gene Therapy Candidate Gets FDA Clearance to Proceed to First-in-Human Clinical Trials
ANN ARBOR, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–RetroSense Therapeutics announced an Investigational New Drug (IND) application for RST-001 received clearance from the FDA. RetroSense is developing RST-001 for the treatment of retinitis pigmentosa
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Eleven Biotherapeutics reports $6.9 million net loss in second quarter
Eleven Biotherapeutics reported a net loss of $6.9 million, or $0.36 per share, compared with a net loss of $8.1 million, or $0.51 per share, in the same quarter of 2014, according to a press release. Revenue was reported at $0.1 million in the second …
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Results of Patient Outcomes Outside of the U.S. Demonstrate Safety and Effectiveness of Presbia Flexivue Mircolens™
DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Presbia PLC (NASDAQ: LENS), an ophthalmic device company and leader in near vision restoration will be participating at the Barcelona 2015 XXXIII Congress of the European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS). ESCRS is Europe’s leading organization for cataract and refractive surgeons and is at the forefront of development in anterior segment surgery. The event will be held the 5th through the 9th of September at Fira Barcelona Gran Via. The Company will