Visual in Medical Technology

Study Confirms Effectiveness of Innovative Prism Glasses For Hemianopia Patients

... for hemianopia patients (blinded in half the visual field in both eyes), scientists found that ... which blinds the vision in one half of the visual field in both eyes -- the result of strokes, ... objects or walk into people on the side where the visual field is missing. The prisms, attached above ...

Paloma Pharmaceuticals Presents at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology 2009 Meeting

... in the journal Investigative Ophthalmology and visual Science. Work from this study indicates that ... affected area. In some cases, blindness or other visual deficits may be permanent, and related to the ... surgeons to ultimately reattach the retina, the visual prognosis remains poor, with only 11-25% of ...

Alimera Reports Favorable Safety and Efficacy Results From the 12-Month Interim Readout of the Human PK Iluvien(TM) Study

... the subgroup of patients that reflect the same visual acuity inclusion criteria as that of the larger ... patients had an improvement in best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) of 15 letters or greater over ... of Alimera Sciences. In the Retisert DME trials, visual acuity continued to improve over the second year, ...

Video: Sirion Therapeutics Launches Durezol for Postoperative Ocular Inflammation and Pain

... Ocular pain/discomfort was measured using the visual Analogue Scale (VAS) score of 0-100 with 0 equal ... if left untreated, can interfere with a patient's visual rehabilitation or lead to further ... occurring in 1-5% of patients included reduced visual acuity, punctate keratitis, eye inflammation, and ...

TOZAL(R) Nutritional Supplement Improves Vision in Common Form of Macular Degeneration

... an average of one-half eye-chart line of visual acuity, and 20 percent stayed the same. All ... (AREDS-type nutritional supplement) arm lost visual acuity, with an average loss of 1.49 lines at the ... central vision loss and is the leading cause of visual impairment and blindness in people over age 60. ...

FDA Files Application To Convert ONTAK(R) (Denileukin Diftitox) to Full Approval for Use in Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma (CTCL)

... syndrome (see PRECAUTIONS, Laboratory Tests). visual Loss Loss of visual acuity, usually with loss of color vision, with ... however, most patients reported persistent visual impairment. PRECAUTIONS: General Patients ...

Alimera Reports Results From the Three-Month Interim Readout of the Human PK Medidur(TM) FA Study

... patients showed an improvement in best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) of 15 letters or greater from ... It demonstrated a significant improvement in visual acuity at one year, comparable to the Iluvien ... doses of FA delivered by Iluvien will provide visual acuity improvements while reducing the risk of ...

Discovering How Video Games Can Motivate Healthy Behaviors: More than $2 Million Awarded to 12 Research Teams Across U.S.

... video game (Playstation 2's "Crazy Taxi") on the visual attention skills of a group of community-dwelling ... "Crazy Taxi," those who receive a traditional visual attention training program and those who are given no training at all. It will evaluate visual attention performance and cognitive speed and ...

Multi-Center Patient Registry Supports Safety and Clinical Utility of Boston Scientific's SpyGlass(R) Direct Visualization System

... Visualization System, which offers extensive visual access to the biliary tract. Results from ... and provides reliable access to target sites for visual inspection and stone therapy. In addition, the ... Dr. Chen. "Preliminary results demonstrate that visual examination combined with directed tissue ...

Prism Glasses Expand the View for Patients with Hemianopia

... with hemianopia, a condition that blinds half the visual field in both eyes. The peripheral prism glasses, ... which blinds the vision in one half of the visual field in both eyes, resulting from damage to the ... or walks into people on the side where the visual field is missing. Peli's goal was to find a way ...

Bayer and Regeneron Dose First Patient in Second Phase 3 Study for VEGF Trap-Eye in Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration

... and 8 weeks. The development program will include visual acuity endpoints and anatomical endpoints, ... of one year, compared to ranibizumab patients. visual acuity is defined as the total number of letters ... a standard chart used in research to measure visual acuity. Maintenance of vision is defined as ...

MacuSight(TM) Announces Positive Preliminary Results From Phase 1 Study of Sirolimus in Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration

... Favorable Safety Profile and Improvements in visual Acuity UNION ... of administration. In addition, improvements in visual acuity consistent with anatomical retinal changes ... AMD with patients demonstrating improvements in visual acuity despite extended duration of disease prior ...

MacuSight(TM) Announces Positive Initial Results From Phase 1 Study of Sirolimus in Diabetic Macular Edema

... Favorable Safety Profile and Improvements in visual Acuity UNION ... Additionally investigators noted improvements in visual acuity and foveal thickness reductions for up to ... suggest that these initial improvements in visual acuity and foveal thickness reductions were ...

New Study Demonstrates 4 Year Olds Fed Enfamil LIPIL(R) as Infants Have Brain and Eye Outcomes Similar to Breastfed Babies

... at the levels in Enfamil LIPIL is associated with visual acuity and brain development benefits similar ... they continue to support the development of visual acuity throughout the first full year of life.(4) ... "There were significant differences in visual acuity and verbal IQ scores in the control group ...

Iontophoretic Drug Delivery System (IDDS) Containing Lidocaine and Epinephrine is Effective in Reducing Pain Associated With Insertion of an Intravenous Catheter in a Phase 2 Clinical Trial

... of the intravenous catheter, subjects evaluated their pain using the visual Analog pain Scale (VAS) scoring system and were asked if they would use ... population (including subjects completing 8 minutes of treatment) the mean visual Analog pain Scale (VAS) results recorded by the subject following the ...

Lions Eye Institute for Transplant & Research, Inc. Launches Multi-Million Dollar, State-of-the-Art Research Institute that Will Advance the Study of Blinding Eye Diseases

... millions of Americans. Macular degeneration is the leading cause of visual loss in the elderly and the condition profoundly affects their quality of ... mission is to set new standards for ocular research that will improve visual outcomes and quality of life for those who are blind or visually ...

Metastatic Bone Disease Patients Can Walk in Lazarus' Footsteps

... or PMMA) into a bone lesion under constant and precise visual monitoring by CT or digital fluoroscopy imaging. The technique is similar ... study, the average pain intensity score for patients based on the 11-point visual analog scale dropped significantly from 8.8 +/1.4 to 1.8 +/2.1 within 24 ...

Neuro Kinetics: Research Suggests I-Portal(R) NOTC Data Shows Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries That Other Technologies Miss

... pendular tracking, saccade, horizontal and vertical gaze, subjective visual vertical (SVV) and subjective visual horizontal (SVH), head thrust test (HTT), and sinusoidal harmonic ...

Mission Pharmacal Launches CitraNatal(R) Assure Prescription Prenatal Vitamin

... the baby's gestation period, birth weight and size, lead to higher visual acuity at age 60 days, and increase cognitive and psychomotor ... S.M., Friesen R.W. Essential n-3 Fatty Acids in Pregnant Women and Early visual Acuity Maturation in Term Infants. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. ...

Durezol(TM) in the Treatment of Uveitis and Ganciclovir in the Treatment of Herpetic Keratitis: Studies of Treatments for Leading Causes of Blindness to Be Presented

... continued through Day 42. Pain/ocular discomfort was assessed using a visual Analog Scale. Durezol demonstrated a numerical advantage in pain reduction ... ocular adverse reactions occurring in 1-5% of patients included reduced visual acuity, punctate keratitis, eye inflammation, and iritis. Ocular adverse ...

March of Dimes Honors Dr. Susan Carlson for Outstanding Work In Maternal-Fetal Nutrition

... the first to report, in 1989, that formula-fed preterm infants had higher visual acuity when fed a formula containing DHA. DHA plays a crucial role in the growth and development of the central nervous system as well as visual functioning in infants and supports healthy brain development, especially ...

Sirion Therapeutics Announces Positive Pivotal Uveitis Data for Durezol(TM)

... debilitating symptom of uveitis. In this study, pain was assessed using a visual Analog Scale. Durezol demonstrated a numerical advantage in pain reduction ... ocular adverse reactions occurring in 1-5% of patients included reduced visual acuity, punctate keratitis, eye inflammation, and iritis. Ocular adverse ...

NeoVista Unveils 18-month Data on Novel Wet AMD Therapy at Retina Society Meeting

... with the latest data from our Phase II study, as not only did the visual acuity improve in our patients over the long-term, but very few patients ... 25 trial participants to reach that milestone shows a mean improvement in visual acuity of 10.7 letters using the Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy ...

Silence Therapeutics to Receive $1.9m Milestone Payment as Pfizer and Quark Commence Phase II Trial

... is designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the candidate in improving visual acuity compared to laser treatment in patients with diabetic macular ... and cease to function. Diabetic macular oedema is the most common cause of visual impairment in patients with non-proliferative retinopathy. Approximately ...

'Snapshots' of Eyes Could Serve as Early Warning of Diabetes or Diabetic Eye Disease, U-M Researchers Report

... examination alone," says Elner, professor, Department of Ophthalmology and visual Sciences at U-M Medical School. Metabolic stress, and therefore disease, ... is beginning to break down," says Petty, professor of Ophthalmology and visual Sciences, and professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the U-M Medical ...

Menicon Undertakes With the Novovision Clinic a Paediatric Myopia Control Clinical Trial

... anterior chamber depth, corneal topography, cycloplegic refraction and visual acuity are being performed at 6-month intervals. To date, no subjects have ... orthokeratology lenses compared to children wearing other modalities of visual correction. We are delighted to participate in this unique clinical trial, ...

Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Completes Enrollment in First of Two Phase III Clinical Trials of Sodium Oxybate to Treat Fibromyalgia

... for both studies is the change from baseline in pain based on the pain visual analog scale, which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the ... significant improvement in pain compared to placebo based on the pain visual analog scale. These results need to be confirmed in the ongoing Phase III ...

Gene Therapy Improves Vision in Patients with Congenital Retinal Disease

... conduct research on the cellular and molecular biology of eye disease and visual function. Current studies in the F.M. Kirby Center include evaluations of ... development of methods with which to non-invasively monitor retinal and visual function in animal models and humans, and design of novel methods with ...

Dr. Calvin Grant Presents Results from Xibrom(TM) Combination Therapy with Lucentis(R) at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

... the Combination Group did show a statistically significant improvement in visual acuity. In the Combination Group, mean visual acuity increased 1.2 +/- 1.64 lines compared with 0.06 +/-0.66 lines in ...

UltraShape(R) Non-Invasive Fat Reduction and Body Contouring Clinical Study Results Featured at American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery Meeting

... before and after each treatment and one month after the last treatment. visual contour improvement was seen in over 85% of patients as assessed by an ... "My clinical study demonstrated measurable circumference reduction and visual improvement in body contour in all patients. Moreover, my patients are ...

NeoVista Presents One Year Data on Novel Wet AMD Therapy at Macula Society

... with Avastin(R) (bevacizumab), showed a marked improvement in mean visual acuity. In the ongoing nonrandomized, multicenter feasibility study, ... of the trial participants, subjects had experienced a mean improvement in visual acuity of 10 letters using the Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study ...

NeoVista, Inc. Presents New Data on Its Novel Wet AMD Therapy at AAO

... After twelve months follow-up, subjects experienced a mean improvement of visual acuity of 13.1 letters using the Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) test. 96% of patients lost less than 15 letters of visual acuity. Only 15% of patients in the study required additional injections ...

ISTA Pharmaceuticals Presents Results from Two Phase III Clinical Trials of Xibrom(TM) QD (Once-daily) Formulation at the American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting

... daily, and 30 each with either diclofenac or ketorolac four times daily. visual acuity was measured with Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study ... groups, the patients treated with Xibrom recorded the greatest gain in visual function. Xibrom(TM) (bromfenac ophthalmic solution) Xibrom is a topical ...

Ellex 2RT Study Demonstrates Clinical Efficacy in Treatment of Diabetic Macular Edema

... Results demonstrate the therapy's potential to improve and stabilize visual acuity and to reduce retinal edema in patients with diabetic maculopathy ... is made to commercialize Ellex 2RT. ABOUT AMD AMD causes central visual loss and is the leading cause of blindness for people over the age of 60. ...

Patient Enrollment Complete in First Trial to Compare Physiologic Guidance vs. Angiographic Guidance of Stent Deployment in Patients with Multivessel Disease

... vessels have narrowings of greater than or equal to 50 percent by visual assessment. -- The lesions require stenting, according to the ... large enough to accommodate drug-eluting stents. After an investigator's visual assessment of an angiogram and notation of which lesions appear to require ...

FDA Issues Complete Response Letter for INTUNIV(TM) (guanfacine) Extended Release for the Treatment of ADHD in Children and Adolescents

... cortical functions. Biol Psychiatry. 2005; 57:1377-1385. 8. Steere JC, Arnsten AFT. The alpha-2A noradrenergic agonist, guanfacine, improves visual object discrimination reversal performance in rhesus monkeys. Behav Neurosci. 1997;111:1-9. 9. Mao Z-M, Arnsten AFT, Li B-M. Local infusion of ...

Video: New Dove(R) Body Washes with NutriumMoisture(TM) Restore Skin's Natural Moisture

... Results from a four-week clinical study show: Significantly reduced dryness and improved moisturization in just three weeks. Both expert visual grading analysis and objective computer image analysis of high-resolution digital images of the subjects before and after three weeks of treatment, ...

Takeda Provides Update on the Investigational Fixed-Dose Combination of alogliptin and ACTOS(R) (pioglitazone HCl)

... with diabetes should have regular eye exams. If you experience vision problems, consult your doctor immediately. Some patients have experienced visual changes while taking ACTOS. Some people, particularly women, are at higher risk of having bone fractures while taking ACTOS. Other side ...

Thiarabine Demonstrates a Reduction of Both Inflammatory and Erosive Disease Parameters in Rheumatoid Arthritis

... statistically significant anti-arthritic efficacy comparable to that of methotrexate. "The images from X-ray microtomography present a compelling visual representation of diseased vs. treated limbs" commented David Nowotnik, Senior Vice President Research and Development. "We are delighted with the ...

Jazz Pharmaceuticals and UCB Announce Second Phase III Study of Sodium Oxybate in Patients With Fibromyalgia Meets Primary Endpoints

... meaningful endpoint, was the proportion of patients who achieved at least 30 percent reduction in pain from baseline to endpoint based on the Pain visual Analog Scale (VAS). Data from the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ) are considered equally relevant as Pain VAS data in the E.U. FIQ data are ...