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Anti-VEGF Maintains Visual Acuity Gains At 1 Year In Patients With Neovascular AMD
Pegaptanib as induction-maintenance therapy improved visual acuity and stabilized center point thickness in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration, a study found.
Elsevier Enables Its E-Books To Read Aloud, Increasing Access For People With Print Disabilities
Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and solutions, has announced that it has enabled the text-to-speech option on all of its ePub book titles. The text-to-speech function enables an e-book to …
The Second Ophthalmic Innovation Summit
Last October, the Second Ophthalmic Innovation Summit (OIS) was held just prior to the 2010 AAO Meeting in Chicago. As was the case last year, my old friend, Larry Haimovitch,an ophthalmic industry vetran, who attended the meeting and wrote about it fo…
Intrathecal Ziconotide May Increase Risk for Suicide
A recent suicide has raised the suspicion that ziconotide can pose a psychiatric threat to patients. Medscape Medical News
Three-Day Meeting On Eliminating River Blindness Kicks Off In Nigeria
A three-day meeting of the WHO African Program for Onchocerciasis (River blindness) Control (WHO/APOC) opened in Abuja, Nigeria, on Tuesday, PANA/Afrique en ligne reports (12/8)…