Balamurali Ambati, MD, of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, is leading a team of researchers in the study of polymer nanoparticles as a treatment for macular degeneration, according to a report by Chemical & Engineering News.
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Insite Vision, an Alameda, Calif.-based ophthalmic products company, has recruited Gholam A. Peyman, MD, to its Scientific Advisory Board.
Daniel Durrie, MD, a board-certified ophthalmologist, has co-created and introduced SBK LASIK at his Durrie Vision practice in Overland Park, Kan.
San Francisco 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that federal law prevents patients that had LASIK surgery from suing surgeons and doctors for not explaining that LASIK was not approved as a farsightedness treatment, according to a Thomson Reuters…
Carey Rowan, MD, a board certified ophthalmologist, has opened The Eye Shop in Clearwater, Fla. The Eye Shop is an expansion of Dr. Rowan's practice, which is based at the Rowan Eye Center in New Port Richey, Fla.
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Researchers from the Feinberg School of Medicine, Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, the University of Nebraska Center for Drug Delivery and Nanomedicine and Northwestern University's Center for Developmental Therapeutics will…
SARcode Biosciences, a biopharmaceutical company based in Brisbane, Calif., is being acquired by Shire, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, for a $160 million upfront payment.
Dell Laser Consultants in Austin, Texas, offer a wide variety of laser treatment services including infrared pupillometer, femotosecond laser, excimer lasers and wavefront technology.
The Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore is the first healthcare facility in Maryland to use the Implantable Miniature Telescope as a macular degeneration treatment, according to a Science Daily report.
Investors have given Hemera Biosciences, founded by doctors and faculty members of the Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, $3.8 million to fund the development of its macular degeneration gene therapy treatment, according to a report by The Boston…