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Connecticut ophthalmologist Donald Salzberg, MD, was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for taking kickbacks in exchange for ordering medically unnecessary brain scans on patients. He was ordered to pay $1.34 million in restitution.

At this year's ARVO meeting, Michael Chaglasian, OD, spoke with Ophthalmology Times about the paper he presented on the detection of glaucoma with a novel widefield imaging device combined with OCT

The campaign will encourage, educate and empower the public to include vision and eye health as a part of their healthcare by asking them to share how eye care services and exams improved their vision and their daily lives.

At this year's ARVO meeting, Irene Santiago Tierno, MS, talked with Ophthalmology Times about the paper she presented on how abnormal subendothelial matrix exacerbates choroidal endothelial cell death in early age-related macular degeneration.

Simply slowing disease progression is no longer enough.

At this year's ARVO meeting, Daniela Ferrara, MD, PhD, FASRS, presented a paper on predicting functional outcomes for different treatment durations of faricimab in Diabetic macular edema.

The trial evaluates OCU410ST, a modifier gene therapy candidate utilizing an AAV delivery platform for the retinal delivery of the RORA gene.

At this year's ARVO meeting, Edmund Tsui, MD, presented a paper on the analysis of anterior chamber inflammation through automated quantitative assessment of swept-source anterior segment OCT images.

Researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine have conducted a study in a humanized mouse model to show that infections can occur deep inside the eye by penetrating the blood-retinal barrier.

At this year's ARVO meeting, Roger Goldberg, MD, presented a paper on hard exudates and their resolution in patients with diabetic macular edema treated with either faricimab or 2 mg aflibercept.

GLOW2 follows the GLOW1 study in which tarcocimab-treated patients, over the 48-week study duration, saw 29-fold increased response rate in ≥ 2-step improvement in DRSS and 89% decreased risk of developing sight-threatening complications.

Organization eyes green practices, shifting ophthalmology landscape.

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.