A retinal prosthetic device for the blind and nearly blind is awaiting FDA approval for the U.S. market, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
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.
Hoopes Vision, a 10-physician eye clinic led by founder Phillip Hoopes, MD, has transitioned its main office into a newly constructed facility in Draper, Utah.
Sightpath Medical, a provider of mobile and fixed ophthalmic surgical solutions, has announced the launch of its new mobile femtosecond laser for cataract service in early 2013.
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.
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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.
Ophthalmic Consultants of Long Island, a group of 26 physicians based in and around New York City, announced it will be among 14 initial sites across the country surgically implanting an ocular telescope device in elderly patients suffering from age-related…
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.
Stewart Shofner, MD, of Shofner Vision Center in Nashville, Tenn., issued a release giving his three reasons why people choose to undergo LASIK during the winter months.
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.