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This year at ARVO, Anand Swaroop, PhD, was awarded the Friedenwald Award Lecture 2024. He spoke with the Eye Care Network about this lecture and what the award meant to him.

This year at ARVO, Emily Chew, MD, was awarded the Proctor Award Lecture. She spoke with the Eye Care Network about this lecture and what the award meant to her.

The trial is a study of twice daily tanfanercept ophthalmic solution 0.25% and 1.0% and will leverage key insights from the concluded Phase III VELOS-3 study.

This year at ARVO, Daniel Saban PhD, was awarded the Cogan Award Lecture. He spoke with the Eye Care Network about this lecture and what the award meant to him.

Alcon agreed to acquire Belkin Vision and the Belkin Vision Eagle and plans to provide additional details when the deal is closed.

Researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear led a phase 1/2 trial, which included 14 participants, that found the experimental treatment was safe and efficacious.

A team of Chinese researchers have been working on a way to continuously and more comfortably detect these tiny fluctuations in pressure, such as contact lenses that transmit signals to receptor glasses.

Physicians should consider the roles of verbal and ocular anesthesia.

Red light has been receiving increased attention as a potential candidate to combat myopia. The daily use of 650-nm low-level red light for 1 year slowed the progression of spherical equivalent error and axial length without safety concerns.

At this year's ARVO meeting in Seattle, Washington, the Eye Care Network spoke with Noel Brennan, MScOptom, PhD. The clinical research fellow at Johnson and Johnson shared highlights from his presentation on myopia control and predictive modeling.

Noha A. Sherif, MD, and Sandra Hoyek, MD, conducted a retrospective chart review to identify the clinical characteristics of the injured eyes that may be associated with visual recovery in this patient population.

At this year's ARVO meeting in Seattle, Washington, Dolly Chang, MD, PhD, presented data on the early fluid reduction in patients with diabetic macular edema, and how that correlates with 1-year outcome with a deep learning-based retina segmentation tool using the Phase 2 BOULEVARD trial.

While it fell short of the primary endpoint of improvement of non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR) of at least 2 Diabetic Retinopathy Severity Scale (DRSS) levels as of week 36, DURAVYU did demonstrate stable or improved disease severity with reduced rates of NPDR in 9 months.

The angled bow-tie pattern of astigmatism was corrected more accurately compared with the asymmetric bow-tie pattern of astigmatism

At this year's ARVO meeting, Allen Ho, MD, presented a paper on the 12-month results of a mutation agnostic optogenetic program for patients with severe vision loss from retinitis pigmentosa.

At this year's ARVO meeting, Deborah A. Ferrington, PhD, presented "Genotype-specific differences in mitochondrial function specific to the CFH Y402H risk allele associated with AMD."

SriniVas R Sadda, MD, presented "Post Hoc Analysis of a Phase 3 Trial on SB15 (Proposed Aflibercept Biosimilar): Assessment on Pre-to-Post Switching Efficacy and Safety in Neovascular Age-related Macular Degeneration."

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From surgeon to mentor: Smith fuels her commitment to improving glaucoma care by training future ophthalmologists.

An analysis showed an association between patients who previously had undergone intravitreal injections and cataract surgery and a higher risk of the development of a non-clearing vitreous hemorrhage, retinal detachment, retinal tear, and glaucoma surgery.

Pucker shares topline results from a study that investigated the difference in meibomobian gland morphology when measured with a Visante OCT versus an OCULUS Keratograph 5M

Voretigene neparvovec (Luxturna, Spark Therapeutics, Inc.) was shown to be safe and effective in real-world settings.

Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal-dominant, fully-penetrant, neurodegenerative disease that most commonly affects adults during middle age.

In a conversation with the Eye Care Network at ARVO, Osamah Saeedi, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Director of Clinical Research and Director of the Glaucoma Division at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, explained the key findings from his poster.

Tylectomy indicates surgical resection of retinoblastomas via pars plana vitrectomy with intraoperative chemotherapy infusion.