Many of the limitations of existing electronic medical implants, such as pacemakers and defibrillators, arise from the internal batteries. The batteries are rigir, requiring the implants to have a strong metal structure that makes them bulky. At Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland researchers have been working on developing superca (Read more...)
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Nerf Guns ‘Can Cause Serious Eye Injuries’
Doctors are warning that a toy gun popular with children can cause serious eye injuries. WebMD Health News
AMD: Brolucizumab Noninferior to Aflibercept in Early Study
A small phase 2 study suggests that brolucizumab is as safe and effective as aflibercept for treating patients with age-related macular degeneration. Medscape Medical News
Breakthrough Treatments Arriving for Uveal Melanoma
Gene testing and immunotherapy have opened the door to treatments that could save the eyesight and the lives of people with uveal melanoma. Medscape Medical News
Life- and Eye-Saving New Treatments for Uveal Melanoma
Gene testing and immunotherapy have opened the door to treatments that could save the eyesight and the lives of people with uveal melanoma. Medscape Medical News
From Disney to Diabetes: Len Testa and Vericred Team Up to Launch GlucosePATH [Interview]
For years, Len Testa has been using mathematical models to help families answer one of their most challenging questions: how to optimize summer vacation by selecting the best theme parks with the shortest lines, the best restaurants, and the most cost effective hotels? His website, Touring Plans, provides all the decision making (Read more...)
OCT Screening Cost-effective for Diabetic Retinopathy
It might make sense to screen everyone with diabetes for retinopathy using optical coherence tomography (OCT), new research suggests. Medscape Medical News
National Deaf Awareness Month Interview with Chris Soukup, CEO of Communication Service for the Deaf (CSD)
September is National Deaf Awareness Month. Today, in the United States, there are an estimated 11 million deaf and hard of hearing individuals who still face challenges associated with access to communication and employment. Despite legislation and entitlement programs, 73% of deaf people are not offered sign language interpreters, while 70% (Read more...)
Ranibizumab Beats Laser for Diabetic Retinopathy
New trial findings are challenging the standard of care for diabetic retinopathy and are opening the door to wider use of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor drugs. Medscape Medical News
Analysis Favors Aflibercept for Diabetic Macular Edema
Aflibercept appears to be more effective than ranibizumab, with or without laser photocoagulation, in a new meta-analysis of treatments for diabetic macular edema. Medscape Medical News
Retina Specialists Seek to Stem Myopia Epidemic
In an effort to slow the explosive increase in myopia and its subsequent progression, retina specialists are recommending early intervention. Medscape Medical News
How Well Can Glaucoma Patients Measure Their Own Intraocular Pressure?
Self-measurement of intraocular pressure (IOP) by glaucoma patients is feasible and acceptable, but it remains to be seen whether it is sufficiently accurate to guide clinical management, according to an observational study. Reuters Health Information
Discordance Between Dry-eye Signs and Symptoms Offers Useful Clues
When patient-reported symptoms of dry eye don’t align with measurable signs of ocular surface disease, the discordance is associated with comorbidities related to clinical pain and hyperalgesia, a new report suggests.
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Camera Sees Endoscope Tip Through Body by Eliminating Scattered Light
Safely tracking the location of the tip of an endoscope while it’s inside the body has posed a serious challenge for biomedical engineers. The benefit of tracking can help to guide an endoscope to its target quickly and accurately. X-rays can be used, but unnecessary radiation is not advised. Now researchers from University of Edinburgh [&hel (Read more...)
Researchers Replace Most of Lung’s Cells While Retaining Vascular Functionality to Repopulate New Ones
Some tissue types have the ability to have their cells populate a synthetically created scaffold or re-populate decellularized tissue harvested elsewhere. Bioengineered lungs, on the other hand, require a vascular network to exist in order for new cells to settle and for the organ’s normal functions to take place. This has been one reaso (Read more...)
Retinal Imaging Device May Offer Insight Into Alzheimer’s
A noninvasive retinal imaging device that detects changes in the eye that are indicative of brain amyloid may provide new insight into Alzheimer’s disease. Medscape Medical News
European Retina Meeting Will Focus on Myopia Epidemic
Myopia, which is on the rise in the United States and nearing epidemic proportions in other countries, will be in the limelight at the Society of Retina Specialists 17th EURETINA Congress. Medscape Medical News
Study Foreshadows Possibilities of 3D Printing in Medicine
Medgadget has covered quite a number of applications of 3D printing in medicine, but the field is developing so rapidly that a couple researchers feel that clinicians generally are not fully aware of the possibilities. 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, allows for creation of variously shaped objects made of unconventional materials (Read more...)
Predictors of Fungal Keratitis-related Corneal Perforation Identified
Baseline presence of hypopyon and infiltrate depth and size are significant predictors of corneal perforation and/or need for therapeutic penetrating keratoplasty (TPK) in patients with severe fungal keratitis, researchers say. Reuters Health Informa…
After Solar Eclipse, Americans’ Eyes Seem Mostly None the Worse
Eye doctors who had braced themselves for at least a few patients after a dazzling solar eclipse swept the United States cautiously exhaled on Tuesday, with some hospitals reporting zero cases of damaged vision so far. Reuters Health Information