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The New York Daily News reports that “new, state-of-the-art goggles help diagnose stroke patients.” In New York City, “Brooklyn Maimonides Medical Center is the first hospital...to obtain high-tech glasses which will make it easier for stroke teams in the emergency [department] to identify stroke victims who don’t have the usual symptoms,” such as patients who [...]
On the front of its Business Day section, the New York Times reports that “2013 has been the Year of the High-Tech Glasses,” all designed to improve vision. The piece goes on to showcase new Adlens Variable Focus lenses which can use knobs to “precisely adjust the liquid pressure on a curved membrane inside the [...]
According to MedicalNewsToday.com, a gene therapy approach using a protein called CD59, or protectin, shows promise in slowing the signs of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), according to a new in vivo study by researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine. "Treatment was effective when administered at a very specific location beneath the retina, but importantly, [...]
