Tips to improve diversity, excellence in recruiting ophthalmology faculty
June 17, 2019
Meet bias headfirst by developing winning hiring, interviewing strategies
Lynda Charters
Study: Statins associated with lower risk of development of POAG
June 15, 2019
Use of statins to control elevated cholesterol levels and prevent cardiovascular events also has another upside, i.e., a concomitant lower risk of development of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG).
Stem cell treatment: What could possibly go wrong with procedure?
June 8, 2019
Surgeon offers some cautionary tales about unfortunate cases he has encountered
Managing ophthalmic surgery patients on antithrombotic drugs
June 7, 2019
Patients who undergo an ophthalmic procedure and are concomitantly taking antithrombotic drugs, i.e., antiplatelets and anticoagulants, during the perioperative period may require different management than patients not taking those drugs.
Determining DR progression: Much work still needs to be done
May 21, 2019
The worldwide incidence of diabetes has been increasing markedly, and by 2014 it had increased to 422 million individuals from 108 million only 34 years previously.
Family of surgical codes evolving to align procedure payment
May 21, 2019
Differentiating across categories instrumental to establishing accurate value
Resource use, cost of care: XFG versus POAG
May 20, 2019
Exfoliation glaucoma (XFG), the second most commonly occurring glaucoma after primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), is a more challenging pathology to treat for a number of reasons.
Image-reading accuracy Increases with deep-learning DR algorithms
May 14, 2019
With the recent surge in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, ophthalmology is already seeing the benefits.
Rho kinase inhibitors getting to the heart of the matter
April 30, 2019
Rho kinase inhibitors—the newest drugs introduced for treating glaucoma—"get to the heart of the matter” by targeting specific glaucomatous abnormalities, such as trabecular meshwork outflow, said Yvonne Ou, MD.
Stent inject + cataract surgery effective in reducing IOP, burden
April 5, 2019
System preloaded with two trabecular bypass stents for ab interno implantation
