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In an open letter released Wednesday, the American Medical Association (AMA), American Hospital Association and the American Nurses Association are urging healthcare workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Improvements gained prior to surgery can result in positive outcomes.

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The effort is designed to empower patients, improve coordinated care, and reduce regulatory burdens.

Protocol T Extension Study details methods needed to maintain VA gains over time.

Interim data from a cross-sectional study raise concerns that repeated intravitreal injections of an anti-VEGF agent may be associated with a decline in cognitive health.

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology announced the switch to a virtual format this week for its annual meeting, originally scheduled for May 2-6 in San Francisco.

Newest advances improving ophthalmologists’ performance in operating room.

Consistent message, top-of-mind awareness are strategies for growth.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released its final physician fee schedule for 2021. Despite opposition from the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the schedule includes an overall cut of 6% to ophthalmology.

In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Glaucoma Research Foundation will host a virtual Glaucoma 360 annual meeting in 2021.

Pandemic is driving — and accelerating — changes in how ophthalmic care is delivered to patients.

A word from Chief Medical Editor Peter J. McDonnell, MD.

During his 24-year tenure as chair of the Wayne State University School of Medicine’s department of ophthalmology and director of the Kresge Eye Institute, Dr. Jampel oversaw the growth of the department.

Patients should be urged to follow manufacturer recommendations when using a UV-emitting germicidal lamp, avoiding direct exposure to the ocular surface. They should leave the room when the lamps are in use.

Patients with pathogenic variants experience lower VA tied to length of IS/OS junction.

Process eliminates need for expensive in-person examination of patients without DR.

Study finds imaging-based formulas are less accurate in post-myopic LASIK eyes.

Innovations have made procedure quick, safe, effective.

Physicians often use lenses due to abnormal corneal topography or high myopia

Advances in treatment and surgical techniques have transformed patient care.

Goniotomy-viscodilation cataract surgery controls IOP without medications.

Investigators reviewed visual acuity, multi-modal retinal imaging, electroretinography, family history.

Thanks to researchers like Russell N. Van Gelder, MD, PhD, the possibility of restoring sight to patients blinded by age-related macular degeneration or retinitis pigments is another step closer to reality.

Innovation, change has dominated the glaucoma specialty over the years.

During AAO 2020, Cathy G. Cohen, MHSA, CAE, AAO vice president for governmental affairs, offered some optimism for the future of health care under the Biden administration.

The US Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency use authorization for the first COVID-19 diagnostic test for self-testing at home and that provides rapid results.