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Application of Recent Data in Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Diabetic Macular Edema: Managed Care Insights and Strategies
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(CME Credit) Community Practice Connection™: Paradigm Shifts in Presbyopia – Understanding Advances in Topical Treatment Innovations
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(COPE Credit) Analyzing Novel Tear Stimulating Treatments for Special Populations in Dry Eye Disease
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(CME/CNE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Restoring the Surface Impact of Preservatives and Novel Formulations in First Line Treatments for Dry Eye Disease
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(CME/CNE Credit) Analyzing Novel Tear Stimulating Treatments for Special Populations in Dry Eye Disease
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(CME Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Improving Management of MGD-Associated Dry Eye Disease—A Look to the Future of Treatment
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Improving Management of MGD-Associated Dry Eye Disease—A Look to the Future of Treatment
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Restoring the Surface – Impact of Preservatives and Novel Formulations in First Line Treatments for Dry Eye Disease
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18th Annual Controversies in Modern Eye Care
May 4, 2024
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Headed to ARVO? You’re invited to dinner COPE CE/CME. Or join virtually!
May 6 & 7, 2024
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connection™: Paradigm Shifts in Presbyopia – Understanding Advances in Topical Treatment Innovations
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(CME Credit) Learning About the Lid – Optimizing Recognition, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Demodex Blepharitis & Blepharoptosis
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2nd Annual IKA Keratoconus Symposium: Front to Back and Everything in Between
May 18-19, 2024
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(COPE Credit) Learning About the Lid – Optimizing Recognition, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Demodex Blepharitis & Blepharoptosis
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(CME Credit) Virtual Case Studies™ in Cataract Surgery: Selecting Surgical Techniques and Preventing Intra-Operative Complications
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(COPE Credit) Clinical Crossroads: Navigating Neurotrophic Keratitis – The Importance of Avoiding Pitfalls and Ensuring Early Intervention
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Neurotrophic Keratitis Management: How Early Intervention Can Make a Difference
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(CME Credit) Clinical Crossroads: Navigating Neurotrophic Keratitis – The Importance of Avoiding Pitfalls and Ensuring Early Intervention
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17th Annual Controversies in Modern Eye Care
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Thyroid Eye Disease: The Masquerading Eye Disorder—A Guide to Collaborative Care and Accurate Diagnosis
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Keeping an Eye on Evolving Management Strategies for nAMD and DME
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(CME Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Saving Sight—The Expanding Role of the Optometrist in Retinal Disease Care
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Advances in Geographic Atrophy – Optimizing Diagnosis, Monitoring Progression, and Increasing Communication with Transformative Treatment on the Horizon
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Saving Sight—The Expanding Role of the Optometrist in Retinal Disease Care
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(CME Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Advances in Geographic Atrophy – Optimizing Diagnosis, Monitoring Progression, and Increasing Communication with Transformative Treatment on the Horizon
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(CME Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Keeping an Eye on Evolving Management Strategies for nAMD and DME
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What’s New in MGD Beyond Heating and Squeezing?
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The Ins and Outs of Lubricating Eye Drops
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Addressing Healthcare Inequities™ in Glaucoma Management – Understanding Challenges in Segmented Patient Populations (CME Track)
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Community Practice Connections™: Expert Perspectives in Diabetic Macular Edema – Considering Pathogenesis & Inflammation in Treatment Selection
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Wavefront technology still making big news in 2003
December 15th 2003Developments in refractive surgery are interdependent and encompass diagnostics, surgical technology, and supportive therapeutics, all of which have a common goal: emmetropia. A number of advances have grabbed the attention of refractive surgeons over the past year, such as improvements in lasers, materials, and refinements in indications for certain refractive procedures. Wavefront technology is still taking center stage.
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Aspheric IOL enhances mesopic contrast sensitivity
December 15th 2003Munich, Germany-The aspheric Z9000 IOL (Tecnis, Pfizer) is associated with better mesopic contrast sensitivity relative to conventional IOLs, but does not maintain its superiority to spherical implants when testing is performed under mesopic conditions with glare, said Mike P. Holzer, MD, at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons annual meeting.
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YAG laser iridotomy protects against pigmentary glaucoma
December 1st 2003Parma, Italy-YAG laser iridotomy has a protective effect in patients with pigment dispersion syndrome (PDS) who are at high risk of developing pigmentary glaucoma, according to the results of a 10-year follow-up study from the Institute of Ophthalmology in Parma, Italy.
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Intraocular implant to be tested on first patients
December 1st 2003Bethesda, MD- Ten patients with late-stage retinitis pigmentosa (RP) will be the first humans to receive intraocular, polymer implants containing genetically modified human retinal epithelial cells that researchers hope will prevent further vision loss.
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Microsurgical cutting instrument makes consistent incisions
November 15th 2003The Terry-Schanzlin Astigmatome System with vacuum speculum (Oasis Medical Inc.) is a disposable microsurgical cutting instrument designed to make uniform and controlled paralimbal incisions that are often used in combination with cataract and lens implant pro-cedures to reduce astigmatism.
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Time to enhance re-treatment of LASIK overcorrections
November 15th 2003The incidence of overcorrection after LASIK for myopia is low, but the results of re-treatment are variable. Re-treating often results in a shift back to myopia, leaving the patient unhappy. To improve the results of LASIK enhancement surgery, a new formula is warranted. In 1999, Drs. Lindstrom and co-workers noted that laser treatment achieved different effects in eyes with primary versus secondary hyperopia. They attributed this effect to dynamics of wound healing.
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New material for ptosis repair offersease of placement, good results
November 1st 2003Detroit-Ptose-Up (FCI Ophthalmics Inc.) is a viable alternative to traditional sling materials for ptosis repair. Ease of use, durability, and low complication rates are just some of the benefits of this new material.
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IOL material, designs aid cataract surgery in uveitis patients
November 1st 2003Although patients with uveitis are at increased risk of complications following cataract surgery with IOL implantation, due to pre-existing inflam- mation, improvements in technology, materials, and surgical techniques have greatly improved outcomes.
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Injectable lens possible solution to restore accommodation
October 15th 2003Groningen, The Netherlands-Early preclinical studies are yielding promise that an injected, artificial, capsule-filling lens may offer a possible solution for restoring accommodative ability lost in presbyopia or pseudophakia.
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IOL implantation system yields ultra-small-incision surgery
October 15th 2003Nuremberg, Germany-The Acri.Smart 48S IOL implanted with the Acri.Glide/Acri.Shooter system (Acri.Tec, Berlin, Germany) enables cataract surgery to be performed completely with the benefits of ultra-small-incision techniques, said Wolfram Wehner, MD.
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CIBA Vision solutions OK for silicone hydrogel lens
October 15th 2003Atlanta-The FDA is allowing CIBA Vision to tell consumers they may use AOSEPT Clear Care and SOLO-care Plus with silicone hydrogel contact lenses. Clear Care is the first and only no-rub, peroxide-based formula in the United States to receive clearance for this indication.
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IOL filters, protects against harmful UV, blue-light hazard
October 1st 2003London-Exposure of the retina to excessive blue light is hazardous to the pigment epithelial cells and may underlie the increase in the prevalence of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in individuals in the eighth and ninth decades of life.
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Hybrid design brings best of both worlds in IOL edges
October 1st 2003The Clariflex and Sensar AR40e IOLs (AMO) are physician-friendly implants that provide patients with unsurpassed optical performance because of their proprietary OptiEdge (AMO) design, agree cataract surgeons who favor the OptiEdge IOLs.
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Aspheric lens helps improve quality of vision
October 1st 2003Visual performance after cataract surgery is superior in eyes with the aspheric IOL implanted compared with other commonly used foldable implants, according to the results of a blinded, prospective, randomized study presented by Robert M. Kershner, MD, FACS.
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Exciting progress continues to be made in IOL technology. However, as researchers develop new materials and designs, Nick Mamalis, MD, cautioned that care must to be taken to avoid revisiting old problems so that, as the Barenaked Ladies song title says, "Everything Old is New Again."
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Vision outcomes create optimistic expectation for spectacle independence
October 1st 2003Editor's Note: The CrystaLens was recommended for approval by the FDA's Ophthalmic Devices Advisory Panel in late May. The lens may be commercially available later this year or early 2004. Dr. Doane's presentation was given at the annual meeting of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery prior to the recommendation.
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Presbyopic patients almost spectacle-free after lens exchange procedure
October 1st 2003Mainz, Germany-Refractive lens exchange with implantation of a foldable, multifocal IOL is a safe, effective, and stable surgical option for the treatment of hyperopia and myopia in the presbyopic population.
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Hydrophilic IOL yields low incidence of Nd:YAG capsulotomy
October 1st 2003New York-The 1-year follow-up of the Hydroview IOL (Bausch & Lomb) indicates that the lens is safe and provides excellent postoperative visual outcomes, a low incidence of Nd:YAG capsulotomy, and no cases of decentration, according to Douglas Grayson, MD, FACS.
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European study's interim results favorable for myopic PRL
September 15th 2003San Francisco-An interim analysis of data from an ongoing European multicenter study of the Phakic Refractive Lens (PRL, CIBA Vision/Medennium) indicates that the posterior chamber implant is a safe, effective, and predictable method for correcting high myopia, said Bo Philipson, MD, PhD, at the annual meeting of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.
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Silicone punctum plugs improve ocular surface in dry eye
September 15th 2003Fort Lauderdale, FL-Blocking the canaliculus with silicone punctal plugs has been shown to improve the stability of the tear film, decrease the ocular surface staining scores and squamous metaplasia grades, and increase the goblet cell density, according to Dilek Dursun, MD.
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Cosmetic botulinum toxin appealing to patients, physicians
September 1st 2003Kansas City, KS-Incorporating cosmetic botulinum toxin type A (Botox, Botox Cosmetic, Allergan) treatment into an ophthalmic practice's realm of services can be very satisfying for patients and the practitioner, said Jemshed A. Khan, MD.
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