Rona Silkiss, MD, a board-certified ophthalmologist, has begun to offer oculofacial plastic surgery and consultation services at the North Bay Eye Associates ambulatory surgery center in Santa Rosa, Calif.
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La Peer Health Systems, an outpatient surgery center in Beverly Hill, Calif., has announced that it has been joined by Aaron Savar, a board-certified ophthalmologist.
RXi Pharmaceuticals, biotechnology company headquartered in Westborough, Mass., has announced it will present its work on the use of its sd-rxRNAs in retinoblastoma and proliferative vitreoretinopathy therapies at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology 2013 Annual Meeting.
IRIDEX, Mountain View, Calif.-based laser-based medical systems development company, has announced the recent sale of over $500,000 of its laser systems designed to treat eye conditions to the Brazilian, Russian, Chinese and Indian markets.
InSite Vision, Alameda, Calif.-based ophthalmological products company, has announced that it will be presenting five sponsored posters at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology 2013 Annual Meeting.
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Palmetto Eye & Laser Center in Spartanburg, S.C., has acquired the Alcon WaveLight Refractive suite to offer its patients LASIK procedures, according to a Go Upstate report.
This spring, Phillips Eye & Surgery Center in Flemington, N.J., will hold an exhibit of artwork from Hunterdon Regional High School and Hunterdon Watercolor Society, according to an NJ.com report.
R-Tech Ueno, Japanese pharmaceutical company, has filed for and received FDA IND approval to begin Phase I and II clinical trials of its severe dry eye treatment, RU -101.
Pharm-Olam International, contract research organization for InSite Vision, has completed a Phase 3 clinical trial of BromSite, an anti-inflammatory designed to reduce swelling and pain after cataract surgery.
A three-year study led by Andrew Lotery, MD, ophthalmologist and professor at Southampton General Hospital in the U.K., has found that 65 percent of liver transplant patients developed age-related macular degeneration within five years of receiving the transplant, according to…