Surgeons have operated on a patient with retinal vein occlusion using a surgical robot. Operated by an eye surgeon, the robot uses a needle of barely 0.03 millimeter to inject a thrombolytic drug into ...

Apellis Pharmaceuticals said Tuesday that it had identified “internal structural variations” in a type of needle used by doctors to prepare syringes of its eye disease drug Syfovre as a possible cause ...

In preclinical tests, the resistance-sensing injector allowed researchers to more safely and effectively deliver drugs to the body. (Courtesy: Nature Biomedical Engineering) Researchers at Harvard ...

Every few weeks or so, Oswald Purdie receives an injection into both of his eyes. Yes, it is cringeworthy, but Purdie hasn’t minded the routine for three years, for the procedure has allowed him to ...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD), is a common eye disorder that can result in the loss of one's central vision. A team of scientists has developed a new treatment for the disorder that replaces ...

Sometimes, the treatment sounds worse than the disease. First a patient places it over their eye, like a contact lens, causing their eye fluid to dissolve the material between the patch’s base and its ...

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers have teamed up with clinicians to create a new drug-delivery strategy for a type of central vision loss caused by blood vessel growth at the back of the eye, where ...