Devices and Diagnostics

OIS@AAO - Breakfast with the FDA

FDA Looking to Follow Up on Year of “Firsts”

By Jackie Wengrod | February 4, 2016

If you’re an executive at an ophthalmic drug development company and desire a frank discussion on regulatory issues that are critical to your business, you’d…

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Glaucoma Getting a Wake-Up Call

Glaucoma Getting a Wake-Up Call

By Jackie Wengrod | February 3, 2016

SAN FRANCISCO — Thanks to a pending boom in minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) devices, the global glaucoma device market is poised to come out…

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OIS@AAO - Combination Therapies for Wet AMD & DME

Exploring the Keys to Combination Therapies in Retina

By Jackie Wengrod | February 3, 2016

The keys to developing combination therapies to treat retinal diseases lie in clinicians being able to better identify biomarkers for disease progression, developing strategies for…

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Taking in the View of 2015 & Beyond

Taking in the View of 2015 & Beyond

By Jackie Wengrod | December 17, 2015

This year’s Ophthalmology Innovation Summits are behind us. We’re piling content onto OIS.NET including the 2015 Year in Review by OIS Founder and Co-Chair Emmett…

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A Record-Setting OIS

By Jackie Wengrod | November 19, 2015

Last week’s Ophthalmology Innovation Summit drew nearly 1,000 attendees to Las Vegas’ Planet Hollywood hotel, marking the largest OIS event we’ve held yet. The size…

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Biggest OIS Ever Set to Deliver News & Insights

By Jackie Wengrod | November 11, 2015

The maturation and advance of the ophthalmology sector will be fully evident tomorrow as we host the largest Ophthalmology Innovation Summit in its seven-year history.…

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Looking Deep at Extended Depth-of-Focus IOLs

By Jackie Wengrod | November 3, 2015

Multifocal IOLs, perhaps the best established solution to the problem of enabling post-cataract patients to see clearly at all distances, work by incorporating discrete refractive…

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FDA Making the Rounds in Ophthalmology

By Jackie Wengrod | October 21, 2015

Over the past week, news about the FDA has been flooding the inboxes of ophthalmology watchers. The most notable news came Shire plc. The regulatory…

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Premium IOLs: Two Outliers with Mainstream Potential

By Jackie Wengrod | September 24, 2015

A problem that plagues refractive cataract surgery is the difficulty of determining the IOL power that will achieve each patient’s refractive target. In the old…

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Google Lens Clinical Trials to Start in 2016

By Jackie Wengrod | September 17, 2015

Novartis, through its Alcon eye-care division, intends to start clinical trials of an accommodative Google “smart” contact lens in human eyes next year, Novartis Chief…

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Aquesys’ CEO Details Allergan’s Successful Bid

Aquesys’ CEO Details Allergan’s Successful Bid

By Jackie Wengrod | September 11, 2015

Last week’s sale of Aquesys represented a homecoming for CEO Ron Bache, who started his surgical device career at Allergan in the late 1990s. However,…

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A Look at Premium IOLs

By Jackie Wengrod | September 5, 2015

Can Accommodating IOLs Fuel Demand? For nearly two decades, “presbyopia-correcting” intraocular lenses (IOLs) have been available to post-cataract surgery patients, but for a variety of…

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