On May 30, 2018, the Food and Drug Administration announced the approval of the CustomFlex Artificial Iris. According to the FDA, this is the first approved artificial iris. The approval was granted ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Aniridia is an ocular condition characterized by total or partial absence of the iris. It can be congenital or ...

A woman in South Florida has reportedly become one of the first in the country to receive a prosthetic iris to repair the one in her left eye that has been damaged since childhood. When Katheryn ...

The realism of ocular prostheses is limited by the immobility of the pupil. Our solution is to use a liquid crystal display (LCD) in the prosthesis to vary the pupil size as a function of the ambient ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . VIENNA —In this Healio Video Perspective from the ESCRS meeting, Matteo Forlini, MD, speaks about a new method ...

Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...

Sphincterotomy can be achieved by cutting the iris margin with vennas scissors or simply stretching the iris margin with iris retractors. While this approach may be associated with slightly more early ...

The US Food and Drug Administration approved the first stand-alone prosthetic iris, a surgically implanted device to treat adults and children whose iris is completely missing or damaged due to a ...

CINCINNATI, Sept. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- VEO Ophthalmics, LLC, today announced that the American Medical Association (AMA) has issued three (3) separate CPT® codes for the "Insertion of Iris ...

The unique art of prosthetic eye making is undergoing a digital revolution, as specialists work towards what is believed to be Australia's first printed iris. Ocularists make prosthetic eyes for ...

NEW YORK -- When Ilana and Avner Fink were planning their wedding earlier this year, they had to choose a color. "Well, first I joked that I wanted purple," Ilana told CBS News. "Originally, I was ...