Bausch & Lomb and 20/10 Perfect Vision Finalize Refractive Surgery Joint Venture
MUNICH, Germany, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Bausch & Lomb, the global eye health company, and 20/10 Perfect Vision AG, the femtosecond laser developer, have completed their transaction to form a joint venture focused on the laser vision correction industry. Financial terms were not disclosed. ...Premium Lens Boot Camp™ Helps Refractive Surgeons Grow Their Premium IOL Practice
Premium Lens Boot Camp™ - a first-of-its-kind training program to help refractive & cataract surgeons grow their accommodating/multi-focal lens business - has announced that its first boot camp session will be held on June 5th in Chicago at the O'Hare Marriott. ...Juvenile Onset Myopia may Be Due to Parental Refractive Error
Progression of myopia is slower in children who wear a special kind of no-line bifocal lenses than those who wear more conventional lenses// according to a new study published in Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (IOVS). The study found that among children with two myopic parents, ...Glaucoma & Ocular Hypertension more likely in patients with refractive errors
A study which appeared in the clinical journal of Ophthalmology concludes that farsightedness appears to be associated with a five-year risk of ocular hypertension, and nearsightedness is associated with a significantly increased prevalence// of glaucoma, in Caucasians. The study was conducted with...STAAR Surgical Generates Cash From Operations During Second Quarter
...eons and include the Visian ICL, a tiny, flexible lens implanted to correct refractive errors, as well as innovative products designed to improve patient outcomes...potential effect of recent negative publicity about LASIK on the demand for refractive surgery in general in the U.S. STAAR assumes no obligation to update its fo...LCA-Vision Reports Second Quarter Financial Results
...eks. AVA constitutes a comprehensive eye analysis using new diagnostic tools to determine a patient's candidacy for laser vision correction and other refractive surgical procedures, as well as to screen for various eye diseases and irregularities. During the test, we intend to charge an AVA fee that will be c...Review of STAAR's Application for the Visian(R) Toric Implantable Collamer(R) Lens by FDA to Resume
...eons and include the Visian ICL, a tiny, flexible lens implanted to correct refractive errors, as well as innovative products designed to improve patient outcomes...potential effect of recent negative publicity about LASIK on the demand for refractive surgery in general in the U.S. STAAR assumes no obligation to update its fo...Review of STAAR's Application for the Visian(R) Toric Implantable Collamer(R) Lens by FDA to Resume
...eons and include the Visian ICL, a tiny, flexible lens implanted to correct refractive errors, as well as innovative products designed to improve patient outcomes...potential effect of recent negative publicity about LASIK on the demand for refractive surgery in general in the U.S. STAAR assumes no obligation to update its fo...SynergEyes, Inc. Launches New Hybrid Lens Design for Keratoconus Patients
...gEyes(R) Multifocal lens for presbyopia; SynergEyes(R) KC and ClearKone(TM) for keratoconus; and the SynergEyes(R) PS for post-surgery and post-trauma refractive errors. Contact: Kellie Kaseburg Vice President, Global Marketing 877.SEE.2012 This release was issued ...SynergEyes, Inc. Raises $13.3 Million in 'Series C' Financing
...ion; the SynergEyes(R) KC for keratoconus; the SynergEyes(R) Multifocal lens for presbyopia; and the SynergEyes(R) PS for post-surgery and post-trauma refractive errors. Contact: Kellie Kaseburg Vice President of Global Marketing kkaseburg@synergeyes.com 877.SEE.2012 http://ww...New Implantable Lenses Can Reduce the Need for Glasses After Cataract Surgery
...'s ciliary muscle contracts or relaxes. This improves the ability to change focus from near to far. The multifocal intraocular lens uses a new type of refractive technology to provide focus for multiple distances. This type has either small, concentric circular ridges that permit the eye to change its range of ...ReZoom Refractive Multifocal IOL
Description: ReZoom intraocular lens is a second-generation refractive multifocal IOL that provides hyperopic cataract patients with greater independence from glasses than monofocal IOLs. The ReZoom proprietary multifocal design provides a range of vision that monfocals cannot match. The ReZoom Balanced ...OPD-Scan II Refractive Power / Corneal Analyzer
Description: The NIDEK OPD-Scan II provides information on corneal topography, wavefront, autorefraction, keratometry and pupillometry in one unit, utilizing state-of-the-art imaging and analysis technology developed specifically to measure normal to highly aberrated eyes. The system offers a variety of d...OPD-Scan Refractive Power / Corneal Analyzer
Description: Both corneal topography and refractive error data are measured together in a single step to minimize alignment errors. Objective autorefractometry and autokeratometric readings of sphere, cylinder and axis values are simultaneously determined....FEMTO LDV Femtosecond Surgical Laser
Description:...n conceived to provide a versatile, powerful platform for a wide spectrum of applications in corneal surgery. The basic system addresses the demand of refractive surgeons for an "all-Laser LASIK" capability that is consistent with an efficient LASIK work-flow. The solution by Ziemer is based on an all-new femto...Researchers 'unzip' molecules to measure interactions keeping DNA packed in cells
...and how the motor proteins can invade the nucleosome," Wang said. Optical trapping involves a focused beam of light that can "trap" small objects. A refractive sphere is chemically attached to the DNA strand, and the optical trap moves the sphere, allowing the researchers to unzip the DNA strands apart by pul...Gene with probable role in human susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis identified
...rapeutic intervention," Dr. MacAry added. "This is extremely important given the emergence of multi-drug resistant strains of M.tuberculosis that are refractive to current treatment regimes." Pulmonary tuberculosis is a contagious lung disease caused by a bacterium known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis ( M...Illuminating biology: An evolutionary perspective
...cept of "gene sharing" through their studies on lens crystallins, abundant water-soluble proteins of the transparent lens responsible for its optical, refractive properties required for focused vision. Gene sharing refers to the way that a single gene may be involved in multiple functions. Gene sharing allows p...Researchers bridge the 'terahertz gap' with new tunable metamaterial
... radiation, X-rays and gamma rays. Numerous novel effects have been demonstrated that defy accepted principles. Metamaterials demonstrated negative refractive index and up until that point the commonly held belief was that only a positive index was possible, said Padilla. Metamaterials gave us access to new ...Engineers demonstrate a new type of optical tweezer
...ng their new tweezer inside microfluidic chips to carry out fluid velocity, refractive index, and local viscosity measurements. Additional applications include biological force measurements and sorting particles based on their size and refractive index. Particle-sorting chips based on large arrays of tweezers could be us...MIT creates 3-D images of living cell
... images by taking advantage of a property known as refractive index. Every material has a well-defined refractive index, which is a measure of how much the speed of...hrough it. A 2D image containing information about refractive index is thus obtained. To create a 3D image, t...Drug-resistant bacterial infections serious complication after corrective eye surgery
...d MRSA infections in the eyes of 12 patients after refractive surgery. These are the first cases of MRSA infectious keratitis following refractive surgery, the first reports of MRSA keratitis after refractive surgery in patients with no known exposure to a he...Promising cell protein may play role in infection and dry eye
... the protein between the epithelium of the cornea and conjunctiva cells," says Massaro-Giordano, an assistant professor of ophthalmology, cataract and refractive surgery at Scheie. "This may help us understand the molecular mechanisms that dictate the different expression profiles of PAI-2 in human corneal and ...Purdue creates new low-cost system to detect bacteria
...tterns. "Therefore, we can treat the colonies as lenses and use Zernike polynomials," Rajwa said. Factors such as the shape of bacteria, their refractive indexes - or how much they bend light - the types of substances secreted by a particular bacterium and the distance between individual bacteria in a c...New 'implanted contacts' designed to fix nearsightedness
... corrections are outside the parameters for routine laser procedures, said Dr. Steven Verity, associate professor of ophthalmology, who specializes in refractive corneal surgery. Rather than reshaping the eye, as in laser surgery, or replacing the eye's natural lens, as with intraocular lenses, the collame...STAAR Surgical Receives FDA Clearance for the Epiphany(TM) Injector System
...products include the Visian ICL, a tiny, flexible lens implanted to correct refractive errors, as well as innovative products designed to improve patient outcomes...potential effect of recent negative publicity about LASIK on the demand for refractive surgery in general in the U.S. CONTACT: Investors ...STAAR Surgical Receives CE Mark Approval for KS-X Preloaded Hydrophobic Acrylic Lens Injector System
...products include the Visian ICL, a tiny, flexible lens implanted to correct refractive errors, as well as innovative products designed to improve patient outcomes...potential effect of recent negative publicity about LASIK on the demand for refractive surgery in general in the U.S. CONTACT: Investors ...STAAR Surgical Releases Afinity(TM) Collamer(R) Aspheric Single Piece NTIOL
...s. Collamer has high water content and a gradient refractive index, much like the natural lens, providing for i...an ICL, a tiny, flexible lens implanted to correct refractive errors, as well as innovative products designed to...complications of LASIK could reduce demand for all refractive procedures, our limited capital resources and limi...Adept HPLC System 9, Isocratic Refractive Index from Cecil Instruments Ltd.
Description: The excellent isocratic refractive index chromatography system, uses the highly sensitive and stable detector CE 4700. Data processing is provided by the CE 4900 interface and software. Solvent delivery is by the high pressure CE 4100 dual piston pump. A column heater can be supplied. The ...Clarion mounting medium - DAB NBT TNBT Vega Red and Fuchsin from GeneTex
Description:... To assure excellent optical quality, Clarin has a refractive index of nD=1.473, which minimizes the refraction ...ble mounting media, Clarin will not loose its high refractive index as a consequence of solvent evaporation. Thi...hat the solvent is mainly responsible for the high refractive index of the mounting media. Clarin is designed wi...Basic IonQuest System from Cecil Instruments Ltd.
Description:...tionally ultra-low drift . In addition to the standard conductivity detector, the IonQuest can be used with other detectors, such as electrochemical, refractive index, UV/Visible, WaveQuest UV/Visible ultra-fast scanning and fluorescence....