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Physician’s Technology Releases Fifth Generation Laser Joint Rejuvenation System

The Italian Renaissance sculptor Michelangelo once declared “everything hurts”. Baby boomers are more active than ever and stress their joints. Millions rely on dangerous pain meds and injections to stay active. Pain medication and injections can be dangerous and even lethal. Popular therapeutic pain laser technology offers hope but is not practical for home use and is out of reach of a vast patient population.

12 Dec 2012

LDI Introduces Novel High Power Monolithic Stack Pulsed Laser Diodes

OSI Laser Diode, Inc. (LDI), an OSI Systems Company, introduces a product family of high power monolithic stack pulsed laser diodes for a wide variety of military/defense, industrial, automotive, and machine vision applications.

11 Dec 2012

FDA Clears LENSAR Laser System for Corneal Incisions in Cataract Surgery

LENSAR Inc., developer of the next generation LENSAR Laser System™ for refractive cataract surgery, announced today that the company’s laser system has received 510(k) clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for executing corneal incisions during cataract surgery.

11 Dec 2012

JK Lasers Launch 3kW Fiber Laser

3kW Fiber Laser Launched by JK Lasers - A powerful 3kW fiber laser has been launched by global industrial laser manufacturer JK Lasers, part of the GSI Group.

6 Dec 2012

$New Diffraction Spectrometer Tunes Lasers with High Accuracy$

New Diffraction Spectrometer Tunes Lasers with High Accuracy

Every photon in a laser beam marches in lockstep, at an identical wavelength that depends on what the laser is used for – for example, infrared lasers that drive the optic fiber internet. For many applications, lasers need to be precisely tuned to those wavelengths, and the wavelength-measuring instruments can be more expensive than the lasers themselves.

4 Dec 2012

Oakland Park Animal Hospital Successfully Treats Patients with New Laser Therapy

Oakland Park Animal Hospital reports that their new veterinary cold laser therapy machine has successfully relieved pain in many of their patients. Veterinarians Dr. Spencer Ratnoff and Dr. Gary Glickman say that since installing the machine at their practice, they have noted significant improvements in patients suffering from arthritis, ear infections, post-surgical wounds, hot spots and a number of other skin conditions. During laser therapy, the doctors focus a beam of light deep into a pet's tissues. According to Drs. Ratnoff and Glickman, the cold laser stimulates healing deep inside a pet's body.

3 Dec 2012

Researchers Find Way for African Sleeping Sickness Treatment Using X-Ray Laser

An international group of scientists working at the Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has mapped a weak spot in the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness, pinpointing a promising new target for treating a disease that kills tens of thousands of people each year.

30 Nov 2012