Allergan's eye care products include medications for glaucoma, allergic conjunctivitis and chronic dry eye.
Xalatan, an eye care drug, will also weigh on growth as European patent expired in January 2012.
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Allergan is a leading maker of eye care, skin care and aesthetic products, including best-selling pharmaceutical Botox.
It also wants eye care professionals, pharmaceutical companies and patients' groups to form an alliance to improve glaucoma detection.
Urgent eye care outside normal working hours transferred to Derriford in October 2010.
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Its EyeMed Vision Care division has contracts with hundreds of U.S. companies and provides eye care for 30 million people.
They will still get premium benefits - including free dental and eye care - that most Canadians have to pay for.
Money in hand, Carpenter plunged into the most lucrative area in eye care today: refractive laser eye surgery to correct faulty vision.
While most eye care in Kenya is provided through the state hospitals, the queues are long and the service is far from ideal.
Akorn is another health-care company, in the ophthalmology, the eye care area, and they have just an amazing balance sheet, and great growth potential.
"The Gambia established a National Eye care Programme following our prevalence survey of blindness and eye diseases in 1986, " said Dr Yakumba Kassama, the country's Health Minister.
And if not, oftentimes that actually distracts them and prevents them from learning, because both dental and eye care -- a lot of kids end up being distracted.
Novartis' consumer health unit includes over-the-counter medications such as Benefiber, Excedrin and Theraflu, along with CIBA Vision's contact lenses and eye care products and Animal Health's companion and agricultural animal care products.
He added that The Gambia was taking advantage of "appropriate technology" - to help its blind - such as building and equipping of secondary eye care centres, and the local production of eye drops.
But research indicates that 88% of people with cataracts, 86% of people with age related macular degeneration (AMD) and 81% of people with suspected and definite cases of glaucoma are not in touch with eye care services.
The Ninth Circuit decision denying VSP tax-exempt status threatens to "divert to the federal treasury funds from the Sight for Students program, " depriving the poor kids and jeopardizing their eye care, the charities argue in a friend-of-the-court brief.
Further, much of what Medicare Advantage programs offer are non-essential services and benefits designed more to lure customers than provide valuable medical benefits (with some exceptions such as programs that include eye care and, occasionally, dental.) Medicare was never designed for these programs.
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One of them, in India, was Aravind Eye Care, a for-profit hospital that treats the poor for little or no charge, subsidizing the care with fees it charges well-off patients. (See a Forbes article on Aravind here.) Moraes Neto co-authored a documentary film, Setor Dois e Meio (The Second-and-a-half Sector) about the journey that will be released later this year.
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Some eye-care offices have a device called an accommodation rule that allows a technician to slide an eye chart back and forth to simulate different distances.
Fessler offers other examples of VSP's good deeds: VSP offers its eye-care services to its subscribers through 25, 000 private doctors, one-third of whom practice in medically underserved communities.
Novartis mentioned 16 major submissions in its pharmaceutical pipeline in 2010, along with its merger with eye-care company Alcon, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2011.
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Yet politicians in both political parties pay varying degrees of lip service to the notion that the U.S. health care system is broken and that the allegedly bright minds who populate Congress should manage its overhaul with an eye on cheaper care.
Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is rolling out its health care proposal, with an eye toward the failed "Hillary Care" program she proposed in the 1990s.
And the insurance companies can then kind of package and pool providers of dental care or eye wear or what have you, and it's a one-stop shop for seniors.
As governor of Massachusetts, he produced an eye-catching health-care reform that tries to use market mechanisms to solve the most pressing problem, lack of coverage for the uninsured.
"We don't see eye to eye on everything on health care reform, " says Families USA director Ron Pollack, the man who revived Harry and Louise and who enlisted PhRMA's help with the ad.
They will ask health-care staff to keep an eye out for patients and colleagues who seem open to extremism.
Project Frog started out building schools and government offices and is branching into retail, but Hand has her eye on a bigger prize: health care.
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Every diabetic needs ongoing visits to a physician to handle general diabetes treatment, a podiatrist for foot care, an ophthalmologist for eye exams and a dentist to monitor for gum and tooth disease.
Unfortunately, there may be less than meets the eye to both of these long-term care provisions.
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