Ophthalmology
Ophthalmology
Ophthalmology
MiSight Contacts FDA Cleared to Slow Myopia in Kids
Myopia is a very common condition in children, often progressing rapidly and triggering earlier onset of other eye conditions, such as cataracts and detached retina. Cooper Vision, a company out of Lake Forest, California, just won FDA...
Ophthalmology
Eyevensys Non-Viral Gene Therapy for Ocular Diseases: Interview with Patricia Zilliox, CEO of Eyevensys
Eyevensys, a clinical-stage biotechnology company based in France, has developed a method to perform non-viral gene therapy in the eye, with the aim of treating ocular diseases. The system uses ocular electrotransfection to deliver therapeutic...
Ophthalmology
Free App Scans Everyday Photos of Kids for Signs of Disease
Leukocoria, also known as white puppilary reflex, is a symptom of a number of diseases, including retinoblastoma, Coats' disease, and congenital cataracts. When light enters the eye at certain angles in people with leukocoria, a white...
Ophthalmology
Galen Microsurgery System Eliminates Hand Tremor
Galen Robotics, a company based in Baltimore, Maryland, has been working on incorporating robotics and microsurgery. Microsurgery requires a steady hand and a great deal of patience, something that robots can be pretty good at. By creating...
Ophthalmology
Optic Nerve Stimulation Device Could Provide Visual Aid for Blind People
Researchers at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland have developed a new type of intraneural electrode to bypass the eyeball and send messages directly to the brain through the optic nerve. The technique could provide a...
Ophthalmology
System Corrects for Chromatic Aberration to Improve Imaging of Eye
Our eyes are an imperfect window into the world. Individual and unique aberrations of every eye make it challenging to study how people perceive the world, but also create an impediment to imaging the eye accurately for signs of disease. Since...
Ophthalmology
Smart Contact Lens Zooms On Demand
Though bifocal and progressive contact lenses are now widely available, they're still "dumb" devices that require the user to adjust to them. Researchers at the University of California San Diego and the Harbin Institute of Technology in China...
Ophthalmology
Automatic Glasses Track Eyes to Adjust Focus
As we grow older, the lenses of our eyes become stiffer, making it difficult to focus on nearby objects. Presbyopia, as the condition is called, is typically managed using reading glasses and progressive lenses. These, though, only work well...
Ophthalmology
Low-Cost OCT Retinal Scanner for Cheaper Eye Screenings
Researchers from Duke University have developed and clinically tested a new low-cost, portable optical coherence tomography (OCT) retinal scanner. Their work, recently published in the journal of Translational Vision Science and Technology,...
Ophthalmology
