Ophthalmology - Biotech, Pharma and Life Science Channel
Ophthalmology is the branch of medicine that is devoted to the study and treatment of eye diseases.
As well as mild visual defects correctable by lenses, ophthalmology is concerned with glaucoma, uveitis and other serious conditions affecting the eye, and is a very active research area.
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New Online Vision Certification Service Streamlines the Driver’s License Renewal Process in Maryland
Electronic submissions of eye exam results help citizens skip the trip to the MVA The Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA) recently launched the Online Vision Ce...
Two Free Surgeries Will Be Given to a Deserving Dad and Grad to Celebrate the Festive Season of Father’s Day and Graduation Feinerman Vision Center, one of the nation...
Bausch + Lomb Receives FDA Approval for the TRULIGN™ Toric Posterior Chamber Intraocular Lens
ALISO VIEJO, Calif., May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Bausch + Lomb, the global eye health company, today announced that it is has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administ...
West Virginia University Hospitals Images Patients with Toshiba’s Most Advanced CT Technology
One of the First Healthcare Providers to Install Toshiba’s Aquilion ONE ViSION Edition West Virginia University Hospitals (WVUH) wanted to acquire new technology to i...
U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for May 21
WASHINGTON, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110428/DC91889LOGO) TUESD...
MONTVALE, N.J., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PENTAX Medical Company, a healthcare industry leader in endoscopic imaging, recently announced the release of the HI VISIO...
BURLINGTON, Mass., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Tomophase Corporation, a leading developer of minimally invasive optical coherence tomography (OCT) tissue imaging devices, announced today that th...
R-Tech Ueno, Ltd. (JASDAQ:4573): This is to announce start of the patient enrollment of the first stage of a Phase I/II clinical study of recombinant human serum...
MONTVALE, N.J., May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PENTAX Medical, a healthcare industry leader in endoscopic imaging, and Hitachi-Aloka Medical, a global leader in ultrasound imaging, recently announc...
RIDGEFIELD, Conn., May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of the company's commitment to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leader in re...
Events
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Companies
Leadership - In today's global business environment, success is driven by the talent, vision and leadership capabilities of senior executives.
Algeta was founded in 1997 (as Anticancer Therapeutic Inventions) based upon a unique combination of radiation chemistry, nuclear medicine and clinical oncology expertise brought together by its two...
Monarch Medical Technologies is a privately held medical technology company founded by clinicians with a vision of dramatically improving hospital-based glucose management by repl...
Prestige Brands Holdings, Inc.
Located in Irvington, New York, Prestige Brands Holdings, Inc. is a marketer and distributor of brand name over-the-counter healthcare, household and personal care products sold t...
With the advent of new technologies, in the last four years, DNA sequencing has gone through a technological revolution which has completely changed the market. While in 2007 it still cost over 10 m...
Darien, IL- based Healthation is a healthcare technology company helping payers and administrators improve business performance with user-driven rules-based benefits management and transaction pro...
Third Rock Ventures is a venture firm focused on life sciences, investing and launching companies that make a difference in peopleâs lives. Collaborating with entrepreneurs,...
Visionworks (formerly Eye Care Centers of America, Inc.) is a leading provider of eye care services with more than 550 optical retail stores in 39 states and the District of Colum...
InSite Vision is an ophthalmic products company currently focused on ocular infection, glaucoma, and retinal disease. The Company specializes in three platform technologies: topical drug delivery (Dur...
Trice is pioneering Needle Based Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technologies for Orthopedics. The companyâs Micro Vision Solutions enable definitive and convenient surgical-grade...
Clinical Trials
Over 1 million people in the UK suffer from untreatable visual impairment, many of them elderly. The major complaint of visually impaired people is their inability to carry out simple task...
Chemotherapy Treatment for Children With Intraocular Germ-Line Retinoblastoma
Retinoblastoma is an unusual cancer of early childhood involving tumor is both eyes or, in certain circumstances, one eye only. This condition is the result of an abnormal gene which makes...
The Study of Human Atherosclerosis by Polarization-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography
Atherosclerosis is unquestionably the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in developed countries, and the world-wide importance of acute vascular syndromes is increasing. Rupture of a...
This open label extension will treat all the eyes of study participants with active study medication (intravitreal triamcinolone) as well as standard laser treatment where appropriate....
Study of Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Endophthalmitis Following Cataract Surgery
Cataract is the most important cause of visual impairment and decreased mobility in the elderly. While surgery is usually successful, it is also responsible for permanent loss of vision i...
Human Anti-Tac (Daclizumab) to Treat JIA-associated Uveitis
This study will examine the safety and effectiveness of a monoclonal antibody called humanized anti-Tac (HAT, also called daclizumab) to treat children and adolescents with uveitis (chroni...
Study of Oral Fampridine-SR in Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disorder of the body's immune system that affects the central nervous system (CNS). Normally, nerve fibers carry electrical impulses through the spinal cord, p...
Evaluation of Stool Tagging for Improved Patient Compliance
Computed tomography (CT) colonography has gained widespread multi-disciplinary interest as an evolving noninvasive colorectal screening examination, with the potential of improved patient...
MRI Measurement of Brain Metabolism Across the Sleep-Wake Cycle
This study will investigate the spatio-temporal characteristics of brain activity during sleep. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have shown that in the absence of exter...
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as carboplatin, etoposide, and vincristine, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping...
PubMed Articles
The relationship between the profile of the structures obtained by multiphoton polymerization and the optical parameters of nanofabrication systems has been studied theoretically for a multipulse sche...
The role of heavy-light-hole mixing on the optical initialization of hole spin in InAs quantum dots.
The initialization of a resident hole spin by the absorption of a circularly polarized light at resonance involves the formation of an excited state called a trion state. For a pure heavy hole, this o...
Interstitial diffuse optical tomography (DOT) has been used to characterize spatial distribution of optical properties for prostate photodynamic therapy (PDT) dosimetry. We have developed an interstit...
A clickable pyrrolopyrrole cyanine (PPCy) dye was synthesized by incorporating an alkyne moiety, followed by click reaction with azide-functionalized molecules of different polarities. The clickable d...
A photoswitchable poly(3-hexylthiophene).
A well-defined main-chain conjugated photoswitchable poly(3-hexylthiophene) with homogeneous hydrogen end groups was synthesized. Opening and closing the photoswitch enables reversible modulation of P...
Tunable 3D Extended Self-Assembled Gold Metamaterials with Enhanced Light Transmission.
The optical properties of metamaterials made by block copolymer self-assembly are tuned by structural and environmental variations. The plasma frequency red-shifts with increasing lattice constant and...
Penetration of nanoparticles in flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) calli and regenerants.
We demonstrate a method for direct delivery of metal nanoparticles to flax calli and regenerant cells by vacuum deposition of metal nanolayers on powdered hormone followed by dispersal of the combined...
Trichinellosis is a disease that is difficult to diagnose because its symptoms are polymorphic and can be easily confused for several other diseases (Dupouy-Camet et al., 2002). Consuming pork from un...
Optogenetic identification of striatal projection neuron subtypes during in vivo recordings.
Optogenetics has revolutionized neuroscience over the past several years by allowing researchers to modulate the activity of specific cell types, both in vitro and in vivo. One promising application o...
BPTs: thiophene-flanked benzodipyrrolidone conjugated polymers for ambipolar organic transistors.
A series of novel thiophene-flanked benzodipyrrolidone (BPT)-based alternating copolymers are synthesised, their optical and electrical properties evaluated. The BPT unit promotes a conjugated, planar...
Videos
Ohio Vision LLC Ophthalmology Optical Care in Sidney OH
Considering LASIK surgery? Concerned about cataracts? Ohio Vision, with four locations throughout Western Ohio, offers complete opthalmology care including c...
Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Amphipoda
An order of mostly marine CRUSTACEA containing more than 5500 species in over 100 families. Like ISOPODA, the other large order in the superorder Peracarida, members are shrimp-like in appearance, have sessile compound eyes, and no carapace. But unlike Isopoda, they possess thoracic gills and their bodies are laterally compressed.
Isopoda
One of the largest orders of mostly marine CRUSTACEA, containing over 10,000 species. Like AMPHIPODA, the other large order in the superorder Peracarida, members are shrimp-like in appearance, have sessile compound eyes, and no carapace. But unlike Amphipoda, they possess abdominal pleopods (modified as gills) and their bodies are dorsoventrally flattened.
Hares
The genus Lepus, in the family Leporidae, order LAGOMORPHA. Hares are born above ground, fully furred, and with their eyes and ears open. In contrast with RABBITS, hares have 24 chromosome pairs.
Microscopy, Fluorescence, Multiphoton
Fluorescence microscopy utilizing multiple low-energy photons to produce the excitation event of the fluorophore. Multiphoton microscopes have a simplified optical path in the emission side due to the lack of an emission pinhole, which is necessary with normal confocal microscopes. Ultimately this allows spatial isolation of the excitation event, enabling deeper imaging into optically thick tissue, while restricting photobleaching and phototoxicity to the area being imaged.
Tomography, Optical
Projection of near-IR light (INFRARED RAYS), in the 700-1000 nm region, across an object in parallel beams to an array of sensitive photodetectors. This is repeated at various angles and a mathematical reconstruction provides three dimensional MEDICAL IMAGING of tissues. Based on the relative transparency of tissues to this spectra, it has been used to monitor local oxygenation, brain and joints.
