Bye bye, bifocals? New eye drops can fix farsightedness
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The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first eye drop that could allow users to ditch their bifocals—or at least rely on them far less often. Developed by the pharmaceutical company LENZ, VIZZ is an aceclidine ophthalmic treatment in the form of once-daily drops that ease near-object blurriness for up to 10 hours.
The number of doctors and experts that bridge the gap between university research and the NHS – translating discoveries into patient care – is "ageing and shrinking", the Academy of Medical Sciences has warned.
The UK's life sciences industry generated £146.9bn in…
A new machine learning tool developed by researchers at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research Berghofer can help pathologists identify subtle cancer biomarkers in standard tissue samples.
The tool, called STimage, applies spatial analysis to hematoxylin and eosin-stained (H&E) tissue…