Ophthalmology News

• Attacks on American Agents Leave Baffling Battle Scars The incidents are under investigation as public servants and some members of their families undergo medical care. One theory is agents are caught in the crosshairs of harmful spying devices.
  Medscape Medical News, June 11, 2021
• Caffeine May Raise Risk for Inherited Glaucoma Previous studies showed that people who took large doses of caffeine experienced temporary increases in eye pressure. Researchers have wondered whether ingesting caffeine over a long period could pose a risk.
  WebMD Health News, June 10, 2021
• 'Silicon Prairie' Ready for Quantum Leap The state of Nebraska has won $20 million to create next-generation quantum technology that will improve the way we diagnose and treat diseases and transfer information securely.
  Medscape Medical News, June 10, 2021
• Goals, Failures, and Taking Risks: 5 Ways to Improve Your Career Sometimes physicians have a vague -- or clear -- sense that their career isn't going the way they'd prefer, and they're less satisfied than they would like. Here's advice for how to change that.
  Medscape Medical News, June 09, 2021
• Black Glaucoma Patients Have More Visual Field Variability Than White Patients Visual field is more varied among Black patients with primary open-angle glaucoma than their white counterparts, a difference that may help partially explain racial disparities in glaucoma detection and outcomes, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, June 08, 2021
• AMA, JAMA Shakeup Highlights Divide in Medicine A February podcast on structural racism has brought to light an ideological divide in medicine begetting two distinct camps: those who believe systemic racism permeates the field, and those who do not.
  Medscape Medical News, June 08, 2021
• In Advanced Glaucoma, Trabeculectomy Lowers IOP More Than Medication Patients with advanced glaucoma who undergo primary trabeculectomy have lower intraocular pressure and similar safety and QOL outcomes as those who receive medical management, according to a UK randomized trial.
  Reuters Health Information, May 31, 2021
• Despite Risks, Switch to Brolucizumab Might Help Some With Wet AMD Patients with recalcitrant neovascular age-related macular degeneration who switched to brolucizumab from another anti-VEGF agent showed signs of improved vision in a single-center, retrospective study.
  Reuters Health Information, May 28, 2021
• People Who Live Past 100 Have Good DNA Repair Genes For the first time, scientists have decoded the genomes of those older than 100 years in their quest to find out how centenarians avoid age-related diseases and survive longer than most people.
  Medscape Medical News, June 01, 2021
• AACE 2021 Even Inactive Thyroid Eye Disease Adversely Impacts Patients Patients with inactive thyroid eye disease continue to have eye symptoms as well as poor mental health and quality of life.
  Medscape Medical News, May 31, 2021
• Journal Series Amplifies Voices Against Sexual Harassment A series of articles in JACC: Case Reports aims to give a 'voice' to those in cardiology who have experienced discrimination and sexual harassment, and offers some solutions.
  Medscape Medical News, May 27, 2021
• Clean Indoor Air Is Vital for Infection Control In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists say it's time to rate indoor air quality and clean it to prevent the spread of airborne illnesses.
  Medscape Medical News, May 27, 2021
• A First: Blind Man's Sight Restored With Optogenetic Therapy Combining gene therapy with light-stimulating goggles enabled a patient with a 40-year history of blindness caused by retinitis pigmentosa to regain partial sight.
  Medscape Medical News, May 25, 2021
• Children's Book Could Help Catch Color Vision Deficiency Creators of a new children's book aim to help identify children with color vision deficiency.
  Medscape Medical News, May 25, 2021
• Floating Holograms Coming to a Clinic Near You Airborne three-dimensional images that doctors can use to explain health problems are being generated by engineers from beams of laser light, just like in Star Wars.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2021
• In Neovascular AMD, FYB201 Biosimilar May Be a Cheaper Alternative to Ranibizumab The biosimilar FYB201 may offer patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) a safe, effective and cheaper alternative to ranibizumab, an industry-funded study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, May 18, 2021
• This Scientist Is Auctioning Off His DNA and Says Yours is Valuable Too George Church's genetic information is for sale and the Harvard geneticist, who was one of the first people to ever have his genome sequenced, says personal information can be profitable.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2021
• Dramatically Higher Prevalence of IIH in Black Women The prevalence of idiopathic intracranial hypertension is dramatically higher in Black and Hispanic women vs people of other races and ethnicities, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2021
• Ophthalmologists' Earnings Weathered 2020 Relatively Well Despite substantial practice changes during the COVID-19 pandemic, compensation stayed steady.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2021
• SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine Might Trigger Corneal-Transplant Rejection Two older women who underwent a Descemet's membrane endothelial keratoplasty transplant and later received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine have presented with symptoms and signs of endothelial graft rejection, according to a UK report.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2021