Early detection of blinding eye disease could be as easy as scanning barcode
Friday, December 20, 2013 - 15:00
in Health & Medicine
A new optical device puts the power to detect eye disease in the palm of a hand. The tool -- about the size of a hand-held video camera -- scans a patient's entire retina in seconds and could aid primary care physicians in the early detection of a host of retinal diseases including diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and macular degeneration.