Multifocal IOL Implant: OK After Prior Refractive Surgery? Multifocal IOL Implant: OK After Prior Refractive Surgery?
A study on outcomes of multifocal IOL implantation in patients who had had prior refractive surgery for myopia is reviewed.Medscape Ophthalmology (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - January 5, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Ophthalmology Viewpoint Source Type: news
Medical Device Design Is Critical to Bringing Healthcare into the Home
Medical technology is going consumer. Both patients and care givers hold an increasing expectation that the devices they use to manage care will operate with the same ease and usability as the digital products they use every day to manage their lives. As healthcare moves to a home setting, patients require design elements that make the technology easier to use, more intuitive, and more accessible. Medical device companies are responding by focusing during design and development on those needs that are harder to tease out.
To succeed in this potential consumer market, the biggest asset to any device is good design and prod...
Source: MDDI - November 17, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Scott Thielman Tags: Design Source Type: news
New payment rules for overseas patients could hit primary care
Doctors should not police health tourism, says RCGP Related items fromOnMedica Charging migrants to access health services is ‘shortsighted’ Migrants should not be denied fundamental right to healthcare Surgeries must not become border agencies says RCGP Government set to miss target for recouping costs of overseas visitor care ‘Chaotic’ recovery of NHS costs from overseas patients (Source: OnMedica Latest News)
Source: OnMedica Latest News - October 23, 2017 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Dual-Focus Contact Lens Slows Myopia Progression in Kids Dual-Focus Contact Lens Slows Myopia Progression in Kids
For slowing the progression of myopia in children, a dual-focus contact lens proved significantly better than a single-vision lens, and efficacy was maintained out to 3 years, researchers reported.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - October 13, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Ophthalmology News Source Type: news
Is Being Short Sighted (Myopia) Hereditary?
Title: Is Being Short Sighted (Myopia) Hereditary?Category: Doctor's& Expert's views on SymptomsCreated: 10/9/2017 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 10/9/2017 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Eyesight General)
Source: MedicineNet Eyesight General - October 9, 2017 Category: Opthalmology Source Type: news
‘A Dazzling New Sight in the Heavens’: Remembering Sputnik’s First Days
When Sputnik 1 launched 60 years ago — on Oct. 4, 1957 — LIFE Magazine’s audience had to get used to a new reality. In a very literal sense, there was a “dazzling new sight in the heavens,” as the magazine put it, and a Soviet device passed overhead several times a day. And figuratively, things were different too. The world had entered a new age of space exploration and, much to the shock of many in the U.S., it did not begin with American glory.
In an Oct. 21 cover package about the satellite, LIFE looked at the situation from a variety of angles.
An essay from guided-missile expert C.C. Fur...
Source: TIME: Top Science and Health Stories - October 4, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk Tags: Uncategorized 1957 LIFE Magazine photography space Sputnik Source Type: news
It ’s about time the government addressed the impact of scrapping the nursing bursary
Responding to the government’s announcement today (Tuesday) that it will increase the number of training places for nurses, UNISON head of health Sara Gorton said:
“It’s about time the government addressed the impact of their decision to scrap the nursing bursary. Young people have been put off training to become nurses because of this shortsighted policy.
“UNISON strongly supports apprenticeships for nurses, but these only work if the government provides sufficient support and funding. Only a handful of the new nursing apprenticeships promised by the government last year have actually materialised, because empl...
Source: UNISON Health care news - October 3, 2017 Category: UK Health Authors: Charlotte Jeffs Tags: News Press release NHS NHS bursary nursing nursing students Sara Gorton save the NHS bursary Source Type: news
The government needs to address the impact of scrapping the nursing bursary
Responding to the government’s announcement today (Tuesday) that it will increase the number of training places for nurses, UNISON head of health Sara Gorton said:
“It’s about time the government addressed the impact of their decision to scrap the nursing bursary. Young people have been put off training to become nurses because of this shortsighted policy.
“UNISON strongly supports apprenticeships for nurses, but these only work if the government provides sufficient support and funding. Only a handful of the new nursing apprenticeships promised by the government last year have actually materialised, because empl...
Source: UNISON Health care news - October 3, 2017 Category: UK Health Authors: Charlotte Jeffs Tags: News Press release NHS NHS bursary nursing nursing students Sara Gorton save the NHS bursary Source Type: news
The NHL Is Not Allowing Players to Compete in the 2018 Winter Olympics. Here ’s What to Know
The National Hockey League will not participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, which means some of the world’s greatest hockey players, including Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby, will not be allowed at the Games. The NHL decided earlier this year not to give its players a break during the 2017-18 season to compete for Team USA and other countries, and the issue remains controversial as the NHL’s season gets underway on Oct. 4.
The move puts an end to the NHL’s streak of sending its players to the Winter Olympics for the past five Games. The NHL’s April decision leaves the U...
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - September 20, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jennifer Calfas Tags: Uncategorized olympics 2018 onetime Source Type: news
7 medtech stories we missed this week: Sept. 15, 2017
[Image from unsplash.com]From Acera Surgical and Telos Medical’s partnership to Xtant Medical’s 510(k) clearance, here are seven medtech stories we missed this week but thought were still worth a mention.
1. Acera Surgical partners with Telos Medical for Restrata wound matrix trial
Telos Partners announced in a Sept. 14 press release that Acera Surgical has chosen Telos to lead its Restrata wound matrix study. The study will surgery the clinical outcomes of Restrata treatments for diabetic foot ulcers and test for effectiveness and safety. Restrata is a fully synthetic wound matrix that is FDA-cleared for woun...
Source: Mass Device - September 15, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Danielle Kirsh Tags: 510(k) Business/Financial News Clinical Trials Dental Diagnostics Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Regulatory/Compliance Surgical Acera Surgical Contego Medical Fresenius MedTech OBP Medical Pinnacle Sciences Plusoptix Telos Source Type: news
Retina Specialists Seek to Stem Myopia Epidemic Retina Specialists Seek to Stem Myopia Epidemic
In an effort to slow the explosive increase in myopia and its subsequent progression, retina specialists are recommending early intervention.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - September 8, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Ophthalmology News Source Type: news
By creating a market for universities, the government has snookered itself
Shortsighted politicians are reaping the consequences of an unsustainable market in higher education that they themselves createdThe government has a problem. Open any newspaper or turn on the news and there are items about the cost of universities and theburden of debt on students, at levels higher than the cost of most of their parents ’ first house.People arecomplaining about universities at a time when the present government thought it had the issue sorted. The creation of a full-blown market for higher education with its own regulator –the Office for Students– heralded by the recentHigher Education and Research ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 7, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Sir Keith Burnett Tags: Science policy Higher education Politics UK news Source Type: news
European Retina Meeting Will Focus on Myopia Epidemic European Retina Meeting Will Focus on Myopia Epidemic
Myopia, which is on the rise in the United States and nearing epidemic proportions in other countries, will be in the limelight at the Society of Retina Specialists 17th EURETINA Congress.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - August 30, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Ophthalmology News Source Type: news
How to Start Making Plans When You ’re Recovering from Depression
“You can never plan the future by the past.” – Edmund Burke
I know a little bit about being depressed, having worked hard together with my psychotherapist to overcome the debilitating and frightening mental health condition of depression when I was a young woman. Not only did I have a history of persistent sadness, having failed to effectively deal with the loss of my father when I was 13, I also accumulated losses and failures for the following 15 years to the point where I continually felt bad about myself. I found it hard to plan anything, other than surrendering to spontaneous pursuits, often accompanied by risky...
Source: Psych Central - August 19, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Bipolar Depression General Grief and Loss Self-Help Coping Skills Depression Recovery Depressive Episode Hobbies Positive Attitude Socializing Source Type: news
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Source: NIH News in Health - August 15, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
