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Trail Underway to Assess New Laser Technology for Benign Prostate Surgery

A £1.2 million trial to evaluate the use of new laser technology for benign prostate surgery – one of the most common operations performed on the NHS - is underway in Bristol.

10 Nov 2014

New Automated Procedure for Generating Human iPSCs with Laser Enabled Analysis and Processing System

A new study by scientists at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, a nonprofit research institution and one of the largest induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) generators in the world, in collaboration with Intrexon Corporation a leader in synthetic biology, describes an automated, efficient procedure for generating human iPSCs with the Laser Enabled Analysis and Processing (LEAP®) system.

7 Nov 2014

Handheld Device Combines Ultrasound and Photoacoustics

A new handheld probe developed by a team of university and industry researchers in the Netherlands and France could give doctors powerful new imaging capabilities right in the palms of their hands. The imaging system, which is described in a paper published in The Optical Society’s (OSA) open-access journal Optics Express, shrinks a technology that once filled a whole lab bench down to a computer screen and a small probe about the size of a stapler.

6 Nov 2014

Two-Lens Combination Helps Army Veteran with Vision Issues Caused by Arthritis

Jeff Henson has been riding bikes for years. In 2012, he rode a bike coast to coast across the United States. Before that, the Army veteran did a long bike ride in France, and several in the American Northwest, always on a tandem bike and always from the back seat. He was not allowed to ride on the front seat, the steering seat.

31 Oct 2014

Coliseum Northside Hospital uses Cellvizio Endomicroscopy to Identify Cancerous Cells in GERD Patients

Mauna Kea Technologies and Coliseum Northside Hospital, an HCA hospital, today announced that surgeons at Coliseum Northside Hospital are among the first in the U.S. to use an advanced endomicroscopy technology called Cellvizio to identify pre-cancerous and cancerous cells in patients gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).

29 Oct 2014

Software Program Provides Panoramic Perspective of Bladder Endoscopy

Whether physicians examine or operate on the bladder wall with an endoscope, they can catch a glimpse of only a miniscule section of the organ – their viewpoint is like that of someone looking through a keyhole.

29 Oct 2014

FDA Data Confirms Safety and Effectiveness of LASIK Surgery

Results reported by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) on a long-awaited comprehensive prospective, multi-center study on the safety and efficacy of LASIK were well-received by refractive surgeons in attendance at the recent American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) meeting held in Chicago, according to eye surgeon Lance Kugler, MD, president of the Refractive Surgery Alliance.

25 Oct 2014

ADA 2014: DrBicuspid.com Dental Excellence Awards Recognizes Solea Computer-Aided CO2 Laser

Convergent Dental Inc., a privately held dental device and technology company, announced that Solea™ was awarded DrBicuspid.com’s Dental Excellence Award at ADA 2014 in San Antonio, TX.

16 Oct 2014

Leading Scientists Convene at Optical Surgical Navigation Workshop

The world's leading basic-scientists and surgeon-scientists recently convened at the Optical Surgical Navigation Workshop, held in conjunction with the 7th annual meeting of the World Molecular Imaging Society in Seoul, Korea.

15 Oct 2014

Researchers Incorporate Optical Switch in an Anti-Diabetic Agent

Researchers at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have chemically modified an anti-diabetic agent so as to make its action dependent on light. The resulting prototype compound, termed JB253, induces release of insulin only when pancreas cells are exposed to blue light.

15 Oct 2014