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on Monday, May 14, 2012 - 07:59
In an analysis of a cohort that included nearly one million patients who had visited an ophthalmologist, patients who were taking oral fluoroquinolones had a higher risk of developing a retinal detach
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on Monday, May 14, 2012 - 07:57
Bausch + Lomb and ISTA Pharmaceuticals announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which Bausch + Lomb will acquire ISTA for $500 million.
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on Monday, May 14, 2012 - 07:55
The AOA’s Board of Trustees submitted a proposal to amend the organization’s bylaws that, if approved, would give the Accreditation Council on Optometric Education (ACOE) the authority to inspect and
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on Thursday, May 3, 2012 - 11:55
No more pencils. No more books. No more teachers’ dirty looks…And no more mandatory eye exams? In June, school’s out for summer—and the children’s vision law in Missouri may be out as well.
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on Thursday, May 3, 2012 - 11:37
A new study finds that myopia develops in children when the crystalline lens stops adapting to the eye’s continued growth, according researchers at The Ohio State University College of Optometry.
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on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 08:38
X-ray radiation that targets only the eye may provide lifelong protection from the development of glaucoma, according to a study in the April 2 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.1
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on Saturday, April 14, 2012 - 16:44
Scientists at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have for the first time successfully cultivated stem cells on human corneas, which may in the long term remove the need f
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on Saturday, April 14, 2012 - 16:42
Women 65 or older who have even mild retinopathy are more likely to have cognitive decline and related vascular changes in the brain, according to a study led by scientists at the University of Califo
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on Saturday, April 14, 2012 - 16:34
For the first time, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have made early retina structures containing proliferating neuroretinal progenitor cells using induced pluripotent stem cells deri
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on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - 13:14
News of Streptococcus endophthalmitis contamination following the intravitreal injection of Avastin (bevacizumab, Genentech) seemed to keep popping up last year, but no clear cause had been identified
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