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The ASRS See for a Lifetime See a Retina Specialist initiative will spotlight early detection and outline the importance of seeing a retina specialist.

The threshold limit value is increased for virus and bacterial eradication.

According to the company, pegcetacoplan is an investigational, targeted C3 therapy for the treatment of geographic atrophy secondary to age-related macular degeneration.

A national poll suggests most parents overlook simple steps to protect children’s eyes; 1 in 7 parents say their child has not had a vision test in 2 years.

The company and its U.S. joint venture partner and licensee, HLB Therapeutics, signed a letter of intent this week with a global ophthalmology contract research organization to conduct a pair of phase 3 clinical trials simultaneously beginning in the fall in the U.S. and Europe for patients with neurotrophic keratitis.

University of Chicago Medical Center investigators reviewed 2 years of data on assaults with paintball guns found more patients than expected suffered vision-threatening emergencies after being struck in the eye, with several experiencing a rupture of the eyeball or even permanent blindness.

Cynthia Matossian, MD, FACS, ABES, explains why eye care professionals should oversee the selection and use of artificial tears for patients with dry eye.

Children may find it difficult to return to play or school after a concussion, and ophthalmologists and pediatricians can help identify if some will need special learning accommodations or additional referral for treatment.

According to the company, the study found a positive safety and tolerability profile for aCT1 for treatment of corneal injury.

Researchers have found that social media use among physicians jumped during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the role it plays in networking, mentorship and support among ophthalmologists remains unknown.

Speaking at the American Society of Retina Specialists 2022 annual meeting at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, J. Fernando Arevalo, MD, PhD, The Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Professor of Ophthalmology, chairman of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, outlined his investigation of the anatomic and functional outcomes of pars plana vitrectomy, scleral buckle, or a combination of the 2, and suggested that the combination approach may need further consideration.

Speaking at the American Society of Retina Specialists 2022 annual meeting in New York, Carl Danzig, MD, detailed how treatment with faricimab in patients with neovascular AMD resulted in improvements in visual acuity, central subfield thickness and pigment epithelial detachments.

During a presentation at the American Society of Retina Specialists 2022 annual meeting in New York, Bobeck S. Modjtahedi, MD, presented results of a study that examined the accuracy of tools for predicting the risk of vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy.

According to a study published in 2016, approximately 250,000 deaths occur in the United States each year due to medical errors.

In a presentation at the American Society of Retina Specialists 2022 annual meeting at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD, detailed that primary scleral buckling achieved the best visual acuity, and pointed out that rhegmatogenous detachments increased with age.

Mount Sinai study is among the first to link cardiovascular risk to a specific form of age-related macular degeneration.

The program — entitled “Pumping Adrenaline!” — brings viewers myriad challenging cases, intraoperative complications, and complex problems following cataract surgery.

The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center has received an unrestricted grant from Research to Prevent Blindness for $575,000 over 5 years to support eye research conducted by the Department of Ophthalmology.

Charles Brodowski, MD, and Patrick Rapuano, MD, have been named co-chief residents at Wills Eye Hospital, and will lead the team of resident doctors on staff, focusing on training and recruitment while attending to their own medical resident duties.

The first in a series of upgrades to Stellaris Elite incudes maximum vacuum increase and trocar/cannula system removeable valve cap enhancement.

According to investigators, patients with age-related macular degeneration like the port delivery system for ranibizumab because it requires fewer treatments and there is less discomfort.

Kala Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced that it has completed the sale of its commercial portfolio and related intellectual property assets to Alcon Inc., a transaction that was first announced in May.

According to William B. Trattler, MD, progression of the disease before cross-linking often can be identified over a period of months.

According to Mark Lobanoff, DO, earlier treatment also can mean the best possible results for patients.

Lloyd Clark, MD, highlights his ASRS presentation focusing on the PANORAMA study detailing the use of aflibercept in the management of diabetic retinopathy.

CMS is proposing to cut the Medicare conversion factor—the basic starting point for calculating Medicare payments—by 4.42% for CY2023.

A team of investigators form Johns Hopkins Medicine say they’ve discovered that levels of a specific protein appears to help accurately predict whether people with the wet form of age-related macular degeneration may need lifelong, frequent eye injections to preserve vision or if they can be safely weaned off the treatments.

NOV03 is an investigational treatment with a proposed indication of treating the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease associated with Meibomian gland dysfunction.