Archives: Cataract Surgery
Monday, May 20, 2013
NHS Medical Director Admits Widespread Restrictions on Cataract Surgery in ...
From MoneyExpert.com
Officials have described extensive restrictions on sight-saving operations as wrong and unfair after the medical director of the NHS admitted that there are limits in place across half of England. If you are considering ... Read full article
Monday, May 20, 2013
Inadequate Evidence Used When Restricting Cataract Surgery
From Optometry.Co.UK
Around 50% of Primary Care Trusts across England have restricted access to cataract surgery, with the majority of these failing to use adequate clinical evidence in doing so, NHS medical director, Bruce Keogh, has told M... Read full article
Monday, May 20, 2013
NHS Admits Widespread Restrictions on Cataract Surgery in UK
From The Telegraph
Sight-saving cataract operations are being restricted across about half of England, the medical director of the NHS has admitted. Sir Bruce Keogh also said that most local health authorities were not using the best evide... Read full article
Monday, May 20, 2013
Soothing Sounds During Cataract Surgery Reduces Patient Anxiety
From EyewireToday.com
The use of an audio therapy known as binaural beats can significantly reduce patients' anxiety during cataract surgery, according to a new research presented at the AAO annual meeting. The 141-patient study, conducted in... Read full article
Monday, May 20, 2013
Shape Ophthalmics Announces Clinical Trial Results of Memory Polymer Puncta...
From Share Ophthalmics LLC
Shape Ophthalmics LLC announced the clinical trial results involving its proprietary shape memory polymer punctal plug for dry eye treatment and potential platform for drug delivery. Interim result analysis for the Shape... Read full article
Monday, May 20, 2013
Eye Surgeons Unite to Condemn Rationing of Cataract Operations by Half of N...
From The (UK) Daily Mail
Eye surgeons are warning that the rationing of cataract operations by more than half of NHS trusts is putting thousands of patients at risk. Elderly victims of the cutbacks are being left unable to read, write or drive a... Read full article
Monday, May 20, 2013
Fracture Risk Falls with Cataract Repair
From Medpage Today
Cataract surgery not only restored vision, it also lessened the likelihood of hip fracture, a large retrospective study found. During the year following the cataract procedure, patients had a 16% decrease in the likeliho... Read full article
Monday, May 20, 2013
TLC Laser Eye Center to Perform First Laser Cataract Surgery in Canada
From EyewireToday.com
TLC Laser Eye Centers has announced it will perform the first laser cataract surgeries in Canada. The surgery will take place at TLC's Mississauga center in Mississauga, Ontario, on July 24, 2012. The surgeons will use t... Read full article
Monday, May 20, 2013
Abbott Receives FDA Approval for Healon EndoCoat OVD for Cataract Surgery
From Abbott Medical Optics
Abbott announced today that it has expanded its Healon family of ophthalmic viscosurgical devices (OVDs) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of Healon EndoCoat OVD, a device intended for use as a surgical... Read full article
Monday, May 20, 2013
Bausch + Lomb Submits New Drug Application for Once-Daily Prolensa
From EyewireToday.com
Bausch + Lomb announced that it has submitted a new drug application to the FDA seeking approval for Prolensa (bromfenac ophthalmic solution), a once-daily topical nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory compound for the treatmen... Read full article
Monday, May 20, 2013
Omeros Announces Initiation of Planned Pharmacokinetic Substudy in OMS302 P...
From Omeros Corp.
Omeros Corp. announced the initiation of the planned pharmacokinetic (PK) substudy in its phase 3 clinical program evaluating OMS302 in patients undergoing intraocular lens replacement surgery. Omeros is conducting the P... Read full article
Monday, May 20, 2013
Proposed Cuts Will Lead to Longer Wait Times for Cataract Surgery
From Canada Newswire
The Eye Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario are calling on the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care to return to the negotiating table to rescind cuts to sight saving eye services. "Ontario's eye surgeons fear that recen... Read full article
Monday, May 20, 2013
Concerns Over Fall in Cataract Surgery
From Optician Online
Fears have been expressed that cataract surgery remains subject to rationing by some health authorities. It follows the release of new research by the Patients Association, which found a 7.5 per cent decline in the numbe... Read full article
Monday, May 20, 2013
OptiMedica Receives CE Mark for Corneal Incisions with the Catalys Precisio...
From Optimedica Corp.
Global ophthalmic company OptiMedica Corp. has announced that its Catalys Precision Laser System has been CE mark approved for creating single-plane and multi-plane arc cuts/incisions in the cornea during cataract surger... Read full article
Monday, May 20, 2013
British Invention Restores Sight to World's Oldest Cataract Patient
From Rayner Intraocular Lenses
After enduring a decade of poor vision, 109-year-old Guo Liansheng has been given back the gift of sight by UK intraocular lens (IOL) experts Rayner. Before implantation of a Rayner IOL, Madam Guo struggled to detect eve... Read full article
Monday, May 20, 2013
Omeros Reports Allowance of Additional Patent for Ophthalmology Product OMS...
From Omeros Corp.
Omeros Corp. reported the allowance by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) of an additional patent claiming intraocular surgical methods of using OMS302, the Company's ophthalmological PharmacoSurgery(TM) product.... Read full article
Monday, May 20, 2013
Dual-zone Keratometry Equivalent to Manual Keratometry for Toric IOL Implan...
From EyewireToday.com
Simulated outcomes in patients with toric IOLs suggested that dual-zone keratometry performed with the Lenstar LS900 (Haag-Streit AG) is equivalent to manual keratometry, according to a study in the Journal of Cataract a... Read full article
Monday, May 20, 2013
Topical or Regional Anesthesia for Cataract Surgery?
From Medscape Ophthalmology
In patients undergoing cataract surgery, topical anesthesia doesn't provide the same degree of pain relief as regional anesthesia although it's associated with fewer complications and patients seem to prefer it, a meta-a... Read full article
Monday, May 20, 2013
Cataract Operations Waiting List Slashed
From Times of Malta
The waiting list for cataract operations has been significantly whittled down since operations started being sub-contracted to the private sector, Health Minister Joseph Cassar said this afternoon. He said that 579 opera... Read full article
Monday, May 20, 2013
Woman, 109, is the Oldest to Have a Cataract Surgery
From ShanghaiDaily.com
A 109-year-old woman received a cataract surgery in a Shanghai hospital today, making her the oldest person in China to have such a surgery. Guo Liansheng, one of the city's ten longevity stars, says she is happy with th... Read full article
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