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Ophthalmology

The San Antonio Eye Center has announced it will add a weekly pediatric clinic, to be performed by one of the clinic's seven ophthalmologists, Sanford Roberts, MD, who has pediatric fellowship training.

Rochester, N.Y.-based ophthalmologic device and supply company Bausch + Lomb announced it has completed its acquisition of Technolas Perfect Vision, a German company based in Munich that manufactures lasers used in cataract and refractive surgery.

The Moran Eye Center, part of the University of Utah Health System in Salt Lake City, performed free eye surgery for a dozen poor and uninsured patients suffering from cataracts and similar ailments.

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Eye health company Bausch + Lomb, based in Rochester, N.Y., announced it had begun the third phase of testing for latanoprostene bunod, a drug it is licensing from Paris-based Nicox for experimental use in patients with glaucoma or ocular hypertension.

Rates of post-operative endophthalmitis have lowered to a range between 0.03 percent and 0.15 percent, according to a presentation by Andrew Moshfeghi, MD, a physician and consultant speaking at the Hawaiian Eye 2013 conference in Waikoloa, Hawaii.

Genetic mutations that can cause inherited glaucoma can be discovered through early genetic testing, according to a speaker at the Hawaiian Eye 2013 conference in Waikoloa, as reported by Ocular Surgery News.

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