Devices and Diagnostics

A new Winning Pitch Challenge (WPC) symposium is coming to the 2019 American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting, providing an opportunity for entrepreneurs…

Surgery in most high-income countries generates large quantities of waste. For instance, single-use disposable instruments are often used in a variety of surgery settings, but…

Key players in the medical device industry, including one major player in ophthalmology, have issued mixed reviews in response to the Food and Drug Administration’s…

The numbers can be overwhelming: 1.8 billion people globally were living with presbyopia in 2015, 826 million of whom had near vision impairment because they…

At OIS@ASRS 2016, Forrest Fleming, then CEO of TrueVision Systems, announced a new partnership with Alcon. He also introduced the result of that pairing: the…

Netherlands-based Preceyes BV seems to have taken the lead in the race to develop a robotic platform for retinal surgery as it prepares to demonstrate…

With Alcon’s voluntary withdrawal in late August of the CyPass MicroStent due to safety concerns, many have been wondering how the rest of the class…

Two forces are emerging in healthcare that could determine how quickly personalized medicine takes over: an outcomes-based system that pays drug makers only when their…

WASHINGTON, DC – Treating flairs and fluctuations while employing steroid tapering for the treatment of dry eye was the hot topic during the dry eye…

WASHINGTON, DC – Getting insurers to reimburse for novel ophthalmic devices and procedures has been getting harder, but by planning early, involving the right employees,…