Avedro (Boston, MA) received CE Mark clearance in Europe for its KXL II System that’s used for Accelerated Cross-linking and PiXL (Photorefractive Intrastromal Cross-linking) procedures for treatment of myopia.
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President Barack Obama will nominate Vivek Hallegere Murthy, MD, as surgeon general, the White House announced.Murthy is co-founder and president of Doctors for America and an attending physician and instructor in medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School. In 2011, he was appointed to serve as a member of the surgeon general’s advisory group on prevention, health promotion, and integrative and public health, according to a press release. Murthy also is co-founder of VISIONS Worldwide, a nonprofit focused on HIV/AIDS education in India and the United States.
Dry eye categories in postmenopausal women seem to be less distinct and more of a continuum, with meibomian gland dysfunction emerging as the most common contributor to the disease. Medscape Medical News
Ocular Surgery News blogged live from the Ophthalmology Innovation Summit on Thursday, Nov. 14, in New Orleans before the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting.
Alimera Sciences anticipates a commercial launch of Iluvien in France in 2014 and has applied to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency for 10 additional European Union country approvals, according to a press release.“Europe offers the possibility of significant growth, and we believe the market opportunity in Europe is at least as large as that in the United States,” Dan Myers, Alimera president and CEO, said in a subsequent conference call.
Avedro announced that the first patients have been treated in two U.S. Food and Drug Administration clinical trials, according to a press release. LASIK with cross-linking (LASIK Xtra) is a 2-minute procedure to investigate if cross-linking after LASIK reduces regression of refractive outcome in patients with hyperopia or hyperopic astigmatism, the release said.