August 12th 2025
Ocular salvage and preservation of vision are essentially dependent on early diagnosis, and several studies have been conducted to identify the factors leading to delayed diagnosis at presentation.
ViGeneron rebrands as VeonGen Therapeutics, announces rare pediatric disease designation for VG801
June 5th 2025VG801 is a dual AAV gene therapy that leverages mRNA trans-splicing via the vgRNA REVeRT and vgAAV platforms to deliver the full-length ABCA4 gene for Stargardt disease and related retinal disorders.
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ARVO announces Swathi Kaliki, MD, as recipient of 2025 Ludwig von Sallmann Clinician-Scientist Award
March 15th 2025The award honors Ludwig von Sallmann, MD, a “distinguished international ophthalmologist and ophthalmic investigator whose contributions greatly increased the basic and clinical understanding of vision and ophthalmology.”
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Microdrops show promise for safer retinopathy of prematurity screening in preterm infants
January 3rd 2025The rationale was that commercial mydriatics administered during retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) screening have been associated with cardiorespiratory and gastrointestinal adverse events.
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Strabismus in animation: study highlights harmful stereotypes in children's films
November 28th 2024Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus found that characters with crossed or drifting eyes are more likely to play more minor roles in animated movies and be considered unintelligent or villainous. These depictions, the researchers say, can have harmful effects for children with strabismus by perpetuating stereotypes.
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Early vision screening is key to slowing myopia progression in children
November 28th 2024In the wake of a report by a group of researchers in China detailing the increasing prevalence of myopia worldwide, Daniel Cyr, MD, a pediatric ophthalmologist at Stony Brook Medicine, agreed with its assessment, telling Ophthalmology Times he is seeing an increase in pediatric myopia at his clinic in New York.
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