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EyeMed Vision Care Achieves Certified Center of Excellence Distinction

EyeMed Vision Care, the nation’s fastest-growing vision benefits company and part of Luxottica, a leader in vision care and eyewear, announced that their Customer Care Center recently earned the distinction as a Certified Center of Excellence for the fourth consecutive year by BenchmarkPortal, a global leader in contact center benchmarking, certification, training and consulting.

15 Jul 2013

CMS Proposes Reimbursement for VisionCare’s Ophthalmic Telescope Implant for AMD

VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies, Inc., today announced the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed to provide reimbursement for VisionCare’s Implantable Miniature Telescope (by Dr. Isaac Lipshitz), the first FDA-approved ophthalmic telescope implant indicated to improve vision in patients with end-stage age-related macular degeneration (AMD), in 2014.

11 Jul 2013

ASGE Acknowledges 19 Endoscopy Units Through Recognition Program

The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) has recognized 19 endoscopy units as part of its program specifically dedicated to promoting quality in endoscopy in all settings where it is practiced in the United States. ASGE renewed the recognition for 35 units previously honored.

9 Jul 2013

Zolar Receives FDA Clearance for New Soft Tissue Dental Laser

Zolar Technology & Mfg Co. Inc. announces that it has received FDA clearance of its exciting new Soft Tissue Dental Laser - Photon (3w) and Photon plus (10w) adding one of the most innovative products in the dental laser industry.

9 Jul 2013

Physicians Place Transpyloric Stent in the Stomach Using Endoscopy

Physicians at Johns Hopkins say they are encouraged by early results in three patients of their new treatment for gastroparesis, a condition marked by the failure of the stomach to properly empty its contents into the small intestine.

5 Jul 2013

American Academy of Ophthalmology and FDA Partner to Improve Timely Delivery of IOL Devices

The American Academy of Ophthalmology today announced that it is joining forces with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in an effort to improve the regulatory science around the approval of premium medical devices that can significantly benefit cataract patients.

4 Jul 2013

Sysmex Announces Distribution Agreement Renewal for Medica’s EasyCell assistant Hematology Imaging System

Sysmex America Inc., the wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Sysmex Corporation, has announced they have renewed their agreement with Medica Corporation to distribute Medica’s EasyCell® assistant for digital cell image analysis in hematology laboratories.

1 Jul 2013

Bionic Eye Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System to be Offered at UH Eye Institute

University Hospitals (UH) Eye Institute will be one of the first medical centers in the United States to offer the Argus® II Retinal Prosthesis System (“Argus II”).

29 Jun 2013

New TriMarkPublications Report on Medical Imaging Markets

TriMarkPublications.com cites in its newly published "Medical Imaging Markets" report that the global medical imaging market will spike to over $35 billion by 2019.

28 Jun 2013

Slim, Telescopic Contact Lens for Patients with Macular Degeneration

Contact lenses correct many people’s eyesight but do nothing to improve the blurry vision of those suffering from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness among older adults in the western world. That’s because simply correcting the eye’s focus cannot restore the central vision lost from a retina damaged by AMD.

From Optical Society Of America 28 Jun 2013