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Saunders Seen As Key Man in Pfizer-Allergan Mashup

Saunders Seen As Key Man in Pfizer-Allergan Mashup

By Tom Salemi | December 2, 2015

Last week, Pfizer and Allergan executives gave us a lot to chew on over the Thanksgiving weekend. The $160 billion combination will create the world’s…

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Saunders Promises ‘Greater Impact’ on Ophthalmology

By Rich Kirkner | November 24, 2015

With the planned combination of Pfizer and Allergan to create the world’s largest pharmaceutical company, Brent Saunders, a key player in two significant acquisitions of…

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A Record-Setting OIS

By Tom Salemi | 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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Ophthalmology Innovation Summit Gives Nod to Successful Public Start-ups

By Tom Salemi | November 12, 2015

Largest ever gathering will showcase recent IPO Companies, early stage companies and speech by Allergan’s CEO LAS VEGAS, NV (PRWEB) NOVEMBER 12, 2015 The seventh…

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Biggest OIS Ever Set to Deliver News & Insights

By Tom Salemi | 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 Michael Smolinsky | 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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Transcend’s Move Toward PMA

By Tom Salemi | October 28, 2015

Well, the MIGs market could get a little more crowded. This week, Transcend Medical announced it had submitted the final module of its PMA application…

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FDA Making the Rounds in Ophthalmology

By Tom Salemi | 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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Precision Medicine Gets a Boost & Ophthalmology is Ready

By Rich Kirkner | October 14, 2015

Precision medicine got a boost in mid-September when National Institutes of Health (NIH) advisory committee released a framework for building a cohort of 1 million…

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Gene Therapies Move One Step Closer to Reality

By Michelle Dalton | October 9, 2015

Positive top-line results from a pivotal Phase III study may result in the first gene therapy to win U.S. regulatory approval, and sent shares of…

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Is Auris Still Building a Robot for Cataract Surgery?

By Rich Kirkner | October 1, 2015

Auris Surgical Robotics Inc., a Bay Area medical technology company that had been developing a robotic platform for cataract surgery, just raised $150 million, but…

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Premium IOLs: Two Outliers with Mainstream Potential

By Michael Smolinsky | 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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