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Media Spotlight: WRAL features at home eye test being studied at Duke
posted October 12th, 2010
This video features a new portable device that would allow patients to perform their own eye readings more often to provide their doctors with a better picture of pressure in the eyes.
The device is currently approved only for use in a doctor’s office, but Duke University is studying it for use by patients at home.
“This technology, though it touches the eye, does not need an anesthetic because of the speed at which it does it. The eye doesn't feel it,” Duke ophthalmologist Dr. Sanjay Asrani said.
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