August 8, 2003
A Treatment That Brings a Tear to the Eye
What it is: An eyedrop treatment for chronic dry eye that has been used on animals but now is being sold for human use.
The market: Producers of the treatment estimate that people with dry eye spend $300-million to $500-million a year on remedies.
The spark: The cause of dry eye had been a concern for Renee Kaswan ever since she was an ophthalmology resident at the University of Georgia's College of Veterinary Medicine in the early 1980s and assisted in surgeries for dogs that
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