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Irv Arons Healthy Living Professional

Peabody, Massachusetts
Blog: http://irvaronsjournal.blogspot.com/
I am now retired after spending the last 30 years consulting in ophthalmic and medical lasers and ophthalmic technologies. I was on the staff of Arthur D. Little for 25 years, heading its Ophthalmic and Medical Laser Consulting Group. After my retirement from ADL, I ran my own consulting firm,... Full Bio
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Stem Cells in Ophthalmology Update 21: Clinical Trial Details by Irv Arons Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine As with my inquiry into clinical trials underway using gene therapy in ophthalmology, Table 3 Gene Therapy in Ophthalmology - Ongoing Clinical Trial Details , I have underta ... Read on »
Gene Therapy in Ophthalmology Update 11: Clinical Trial Details by Irv Arons Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I have found fifteen gene therapy clinical trials underway to treat various eye disorders. In thinking about this, I wondered how many patients had been treated to date in t ... Read on »
Stem Cells in Ophthalmology Update 20: ACT Adds Mass Eye & Ear as Fourth Clinical Site for Dry AMD... by Irv Arons Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine As announced this morning, Advanced Cell Technology said that Mass Eye & Ear Infirmary had received IRB approval to become the fourth clinical site for ACT’s embryonic stem ... Read on »
CATT Update 16: Two-year Results Published in Ophthalmology – No Significant Difference... by Irv Arons Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine For those of you who have been following my writings on Avastin vs. Lucentis and on the CATT Study, the two-year results comparing Avastin to Lucentis have just been publish ... Read on »
Iluvien Update 6: First European Marketing Approval Obtained by Irv Arons Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine While U.S. marketing approval appears to be out of reach for Alimera and pSivida for Iluvien for the sustained release treatment of diabetic macular edema, the first of six ... Read on »
Retinitis Pigmentosa Update: Three Blind Mice – Let There Be Sight! by Irv Arons Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine In a potential breakthrough, especially for those suffering from retinitis pigmentosa who have lost vision due to degenerated photoreceptors in their retina, scientists from ... Read on »
A Searchable Archive of Medical/Surgical/Cosmetic Laser Business and Technology News for 1996-2005 by Irv Arons Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Medical Laser Business and Technology News Archive Archive of Medical/Surgical/Cosmetic Laser Business and Technology News for 1996 - 2005 As with the archive of Ophthal ... Read on »
A Searchable Archive of Ophthalmic Laser Business and Technology News for 1996-2005 by Irv Arons Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Medical Laser Business and Technology News Archive Archive of Ophthalmic Laser Business and Technology News for 1996-2005 For over ten years, from the Fall of 1995 unt ... Read on »
Stem Cells in Ophthalmology Update 19: ACT Adds Bascom Palmer as Another Clinical Site for Dry AMD... by Irv Arons Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine In an announcement today, Advanced Cell Technology said that Bascom Palmer Eye Institute had received IRB approval to become the third U.S. clinical site for testing ACT’s h ... Read on »
Stem Cells in Ophthalmology Update 18: Stem Cells Inc. Demonstrates That its Human Neural Stem... by Irv Arons Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine On January 30, 2012, Stem Cells Inc. announced the publication of preclinical data demonstrating that its proprietary HuCNS-SCr cells (purified human neural stem cells) p ... Read on »
Gene Therapy in Ophthalmology Update 10: Gene Therapy Research in Dogs Cures X-Linked Retinitis... by Irv Arons Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Researchers at several universities and laboratories collaborated to treat dogs afflicted with the x-linked form of retinitis pigmentosa, to deliver the therapeutic RPGR gen ... Read on »
NeoVista Update 5: CABERNET Study Did Not Meet Primary Endpoint at Two Years by Irv Arons Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine In an unexpected outcome, Dr. Pravin Dugel presented the 2-year results of the CABERNET study, evaluating the use of NeoVista’s VIDION ANV epimacular brachytherapy device at ... Read on »
Gene Therapy in Ophthalmology Update 9: Oxford BioMedica/OHSU Preparing to Treat First Usher... by Irv Arons Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine In an announcement today from the Foundation Fighting Blindness, and confirmed by Oxford BioMedica, the Casey Eye Institute of the Oregan Health & Science University (OHSU) ... Read on »
AMD Update 18: A New Approach to Fighting Retinal Degeneration by Irv Arons Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I just learned this afternoon, of a start-up company, MitoChem Therapeutics, which is apparently an outgrowth of the Vision Research program at the Ophthalmology department ... Read on »
Iluvien Update 5: European Approval on the Horizon by Irv Arons Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Finally, some good news for Alimera (and pSivida). A few days ago, the company announced that it had received a positive outcome to the Decentralized Procedure (DCP) for Ilu ... Read on »
A Novel Gene Therapy Approach to Treating the Wet Form of AMD: The BioFactoryTM From Avalanche... by Irv Arons Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I originally contacted this company in November 2010, when they were still in “stealth mode” and weren't able to share details about what they were doing. Recently, the comp ... Read on »
Menu 21: A List of Writeups on Gene Therapy Used in Ophthalmology by Irv Arons Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine As with my menu on stem cells used in ophthalmology ( Menu 20 ), here is one for the current articles on the use of gene therapy in ophthalmology, with links to the full wri ... Read on »
Menu 20: A List of Writeups on Stem Cells Used in Ophthalmology by Irv Arons Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I realized that I’ve put posted nearly 20 articles on the subject of using stem cells in ophthalmology, and thought interested readers might like to see a compilation in one ... Read on »
AMD Update 17: Dame Judi Dench Has Macular Degeneration by Irv Arons Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Over the weekend, several articles appeared in the British press and also here in the States, about Dame Judi Dench announcing that she has macular degeneration – dry in one ... Read on »
Stem Cells in Ophthalmology Update 17: Recent ACT Updates by Irv Arons Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine While I was out of the country on vacation, Advanced Cell Technology issued four news releases about their ongoing human embryonic stem cell trials. Here is a compilation of ... Read on »
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