New UCLA research suggests that the more muscle mass older Americans have, the less likely they are to die prematurely. The findings add to the growing evidence that overall body composition – and not the widely used body mass index, or BMI – is a bett…
Researchers develop new software to aid cardiovascular risk diagnosis based on fundus image processing
Researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de València, the Hospital General de Valencia and the Ophthalmology Unit of the Foundation for the Health and Biomedical Research of the Comunitat Valenciana (FISABIO-Oftalmología Médica) have developed a new software to aid cardiovascular risk diagnosis based on fundus image processing.
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Zeiss launches surgical microscope with integrated intraoperative OCT
Carl Zeiss Meditec has launched a new surgical microscope, the OPMI Lumera 700, with integrated Rescan 700 intraoperative optical coherence tomography technology and Callisto eye, according to a press release. The microscope reportedly allows surgeons …
Femtosecond capsulotomy associated with lower PCO rate than manual procedure
Femtosecond laser-assisted anterior capsulotomy resulted in less posterior capsule opacification than manual anterior capsulorrhexis, according to a study. The laser-assisted technique also resulted in better IOL positioning than the manual method. The…
Information overload acts ‘to dim the lights’ on what we see
Too much visual information causes a phenomenon known as ‘load induced blindness’, with an effect akin to dimming the lights, reports a new UCL study.The new findings could be used to identify high-risk situations in all walks of life and look at ways …