The S.N. Fyodorov Federal State Institution “Eye Microsurgery Complex” is a leading clinical and research ophthalmological center in Russia. Besides the Head Organization in Moscow, including the Research Experimental Production Plant, 11 affiliated branches (Clinics in the largest Russian cities) are integrated to it. The Head Organization realizes coordination of their activities. All the Branches of the Complex show the stability of work. The net of medico-diagnostic centers organized in the distant regions on the basis successfully develops bringing the rendering of the highly specialized aid to all the regions of the Russian Federation.
The “Eye Microsurgery Complex” is situated in a picturesque district to the North of Moscow City and consists of several buildings which are: policlinics (the out-patients diagnostic building) for daily examinations of 1200 patients; stationary with 10 clinical departments for the main ocular pathologies treatment; Medical Center No. 2 with specialized department for foreign patients treatment and hospitalization, Experimental Technical Production Plant and others.90
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A research article which was published on January 11th 2011 by PubMed states that the MICOF keratoprosthesis is an effective alternative for patients with corneal blindness and a poor prognosis for penetrating keratoplasty. They have evaluated the efficacy and preliminary safety of the Moscow Eye Microsurgery Complex in Russia (MICOF) keratoprosthesis in eyes with complicated corneal opacities unsuitable for keratoplasty. The MICOF keratoprosthesis surgery involves 2 procedures. In stage 1, a supporting titanium frame is inserted into the lamellar pocket; a polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) optical cylinder is implanted 3 months later (stage 2). Data were collected from the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative courses. Statistical analysis was performed to identify factors influencing postoperative complications.91
Figure 71: Analysis of Major Topics in Assistive Devices and Technologies for Visually and Hearing Impaired Persons Landscape for Eye Microsurgery Fedorov.
JNJ (JOHNSON & JOHNSON)
Johnson & Johnson was founded in 1885 and is based in New Brunswick, New Jersey.92
Johnson & Johnson is a holding company. The Company is engaged in the research and development, manufacture and sale of a broad range of products in the health care field. The business of Johnson & Johnson is conducted by more than 275 operating companies located in 60 countries, including the United States, which sell products in virtually all countries throughout the world. In March 2013, Johnson & Johnson's Cordis Corporation announced the acquisition of Flexible Stenting Solutions, Inc. In June 2013, Johnson & Johnson announced the opening of the Johnson & Johnson Innovation center in Boston. In August 2013, Johnson & Johnson announced it has completed its acquisition of Aragon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a pharmaceutical discovery and development company focused on drugs to treat hormonally driven cancers.
The Company’s primary focus has been on products related to human health and well-being. The Company is organized into three business segments: Consumer, Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices and Diagnostics. The Company's subsidiaries operate 146 manufacturing facilities occupying approximately 21.6 million square feet of floor space.93
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. is committed to providing high quality products and services to health care professionals and patients and to supporting the communities in which we work and live.
Medical science evolves rapidly with new information becoming available constantly. As part of the health care system, we understand the need to support health care professionals in their pursuit of the most current education to provide the best patient care possible and recognize that our collaboration with physicians can lead to important medical advances. There is further need to support patients, caregivers, and communities to ensure that they have the information and products required to live healthy and productive lives.
We hold ourselves accountable to the highest standards to ensure that our interactions with health care professionals, institutions and non-profit organizations are conducted in an appropriate manner. To that end, we regularly review and improve our practices as part of an ongoing commitment to ensure ethical and transparent interactions with medical professionals.
Our primary focus is making life-changing, long-term differences in human health and disease management for those who may be helped by the products and services we provide. The purpose of our disclosure of payments on this site is to demonstrate our ongoing commitment to this endeavor. It is our hope that this disclosure will help the general public to better understand the nature and volume of programs that we support in the interest of advancing patient care and supporting local communities.94
The millennium and next generation of technology95
“The 90s saw the introduction of many disposable contact lens brands, both in the daily disposable and the frequent disposable modalities. All lenses were made from hydrogel materials. It wasn't until the beginning of the new millennium that we started to see the introduction of silicone hydrogel contact lenses.
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care launched their first silicone hydrogel lens in 2005 with the introduction of ACUVUE® ADVANCE® with HYDRACLEAR®. This was followed 15 months later with ACUVUE® OASYS® with HYDRACLEAR® PLUS.
However, the innovation didn't stop there. Johnson & Johnson Vision Care continued to push the boundaries of contact lens development with the introduction of ACUVUE® ADVANCE® for ASTIGMATISM, 1-DAY ACUVUE® for ASTIGMATISM, 1-DAY ACUVUE® MOIST® and later ACUVUE® OASYS® for ASTIGMATISM – a totally new toric lens design that employed the outstanding stabilisation features of Accelerated Stabilisation Design (ASD) Technology to allow the lens to settle accurately in the eye in 60 seconds.
Their next milestone came in 2008 when Johnson & Johnson delivered another first to the UK market with a world's first launch – 1-DAY ACUVUE® TruEye®. The world's first silicone hydrogel daily disposable lens – the lens that is seen by Eye Care Professionals to be the best innovation in contact lenses in the past ten years.
In 2010, Johnson & Johnson Vision Care launched 1-DAY ACUVUE® MOIST® for ASTIGMATISM, offering a winning combination of two unique technologies: Accelerated Stabilisation Design (ASD) and LACREON®, together with the widest range of any daily disposable toric lens.”96
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An article which was published on April 17, 2014 by Ophthalmology Web states that Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Inc. (JJVCI) is now accepting research proposals related to meibography and tear film stability with contact lens wear. Specific areas of interest include the topics like Correlating clinical findings to (i.e. lid wiper epitheliopathy, subjective symptoms, physiology) meibomian gland image analysis and tear film stability and Categorizing magnitude of meibomian gland changes to contact lens type or length of wear.97
An article which was published on March 14, 2014 by Ophthalmology Web states that Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. today announced that effective April 15, 2014, ACUVUE® OASYS® Brand Contact Lenses for ASTIGMATISM will be available in more parameters, providing doctors with a range of options to provide coverage for 98 percent of spherical and astigmatic patients.98
Figure 72: Analysis of Major Topics in Assistive Devices and Technologies for Visually and Hearing Impaired Persons Landscape for Johnson & Johnson.
NEC
NEC Corporation provides social and IT solutions worldwide. The company offers systems integration services, such as systems implementation and consulting services; maintenance and support services; outsourcing/cloud services; and system equipment to government, public, healthcare, finance, media, manufacturing, retail, and services sectors. It also provides network infrastructure, such as backbone network systems comprising optical transmission systems, submarine cable systems, and routers/switches; and access network systems, including wireless broadband access systems, PASOLINK mobile backhaul systems, and FTTx broadband access systems to telecom carriers. In addition, the company offers services and management for telecom operations and management solutions, network operation support systems, business support systems, network control platform systems, and network service delivery platform systems. Further, it provides hardware products, such as servers, mainframes, supercomputers, storage products, business PCs, tablet devices, POS, ATMs, control equipment, wireless LAN routers, displays, and projectors; and software products, including integrated operation management, application servers, security, and database software products. Additionally, the company provides smart energy products, including electrodes/energy storage systems, energy management systems, EV/PHV charging infrastructure, and solutions for utilities; smartphones and mobile phones; BIGLOBE Internet services; and lighting equipment, as well as supplies lithium-ion grid energy storage systems. NEC Corporation has a strategic partnership with Wireless Solutions Limited; and HP for the integration of technology, as well as to deliver networking solutions to enterprise customers. The company was formerly known as Nippon Electric Company, Limited and changed its name to NEC Corporation in April 1983. NEC Corporation was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. 99
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An article which was published on December 13, states that NEC Foundation of America Supports Totally Neat Projects; Gee Whiz Technology Creates Affordable Solutions For People with Disabilities100.The Pulsar Project at Syracuse University develops Totally Neat Gadgets (TNGs) and NeatTools software programs that enable people who are severely disabled to type text, surf the web, send email, and generate speech. Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic's (RFB&D) AudioPlus Testing and Feedback project tests methods for delivering digitally recorded textbooks to students with print disabilities. And the National Center for Accessible Media is dedicated to ensuring that all media, including television, motion pictures, and even the Internet are accessible to people with disabilities.
Figure 73: Analysis of Major Topics in Assistive Devices and Technologies for Visually and Hearing Impaired Persons Landscape for NEC.
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