Optometry News and Perspective

• The Weird World of Hydrogels: How They'll Change Healthcare It's a liquid, it's a solid – no, it's hydrogel! And it's poised to transform everything from dentistry to brain implants.
  WebMD Health News, May 24, 2023
• ARVO 2023 'Tunable' Lenses Offer New Way to Correct Presbyopia Adaptive liquid crystal lenses can be electrically tuned to any optical power, according to researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, April 26, 2023
• Eyedrops Delay, May Even Prevent, Nearsightedness Dilating eyedrops used daily by children can delay the onset of nearsightedness, researchers found.
  Medscape Medical News, February 14, 2023
• Will Your Smartphone Be the Next Doctor's Office? Entrepreneurs see smartphones as an opportunity to meet patients where they are. But many app-based diagnostic tools still need clinical validation to get buy-in from healthcare providers.
  Kaiser Health News, January 17, 2023
• Primary Care Screening Cost-Effective for Catching Amblyopia The additional health benefits of universal school screening and mandated optometric examinations do not justify the expense entailed, according to researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, January 12, 2023
• ECTRIMS 2022 The Case for Including Optic Nerve Lesions in MS Dx Criteria Experts make the case for inclusion of optic nerve lesions as a key diagnostic measure of MS.
  MDedge News, October 28, 2022
• How the Pandemic Changed You (and You May Not Even Know It) Researchers from Florida State University and other institutions compared prepandemic data with later data and found declines in four traits: extroversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.
  WebMD Health News, October 27, 2022
• Doctor Removes 23 Contact Lenses From Woman's Eye In a video posted on Instagram, ophthalmologist Katerina Kurteeva, MD, is shown removing contact lenses from a woman's eye.
  WebMD Health News, October 19, 2022
• Ophthalmologists Win Eye Surgery Scope of Practice Battle California governor Gavin Newsome recently vetoed legislation -- opposed by ophthalmologists -- that would have allowed optometrists to perform laser and scalpel eye surgeries.
  Medscape Medical News, October 19, 2022
• CDC Reports Five Cases of Ocular Monkeypox Four individuals were hospitalized and one experienced notable vision impairment.
  Medscape Medical News, October 17, 2022
• Posterior Capsule Rupture Dr Garg discusses posterior capsule rupture (PCR), one of the most common complications of cataract surgery.
  Medscape Ophthalmology, October 13, 2022
• Cancer Care in Women; Vision, Depression Link; Neighbors Do Well With Same Doc The top 3 things you should know to start your day.
  3 Things to Know Today, October 13, 2022
• Poor Visual Acuity Linked to Depression, Brain Structure Changes Difficulty discerning letters or numbers at a given distance is associated with both depressive symptoms and deterioration in certain brain structures, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, October 12, 2022
• AAP 2022 Pediatricians Urged to Check for Vision Problems After Concussion The American Academy of Pediatrics is raising awareness on how concussion-related vision deficits can interfere with schoolwork and other activities.
  Medscape Medical News, October 09, 2022
• AAO 2022 Gene Therapy Shows Potential for RPE65-Related Retinal Dystrophy The rare genetic retinal disorder results in severe visual impairment.
  Medscape Medical News, October 06, 2022
• AAO 2022 Normal-Tension Glaucoma Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk The findings put ophthalmologists, primary care physicians, and neurologists on notice to use normal-tension glaucoma as a biomarker for AD screening.
  Medscape Medical News, October 06, 2022
• AAO 2022 Combined Glaucoma + Cataract Surgery as Effective as Separate A national registry study of 153,000 eyes found that glaucoma surgery done during cataract procedures had lower failure rates than doing two separate operations.
  Medscape Medical News, October 04, 2022
• AAO 2022 With Approval Pending, Pegcetacoplan Phase 3 Results Mixed With an FDA action date set, investigative complement inhibitor pegcetacoplan showed a signal for improving visual function in geographic atrophy but also a risk for conversion to wet AMD.
  Medscape Medical News, October 03, 2022
• Reusable Contact Lenses Increase Risk of Rare Eye Infection: Study People who wear reusable contact lenses are about four times more likely to get the sight-threatening eye infection acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) than people who wear daily disposable lenses. RELATED ARTICLES:
  WebMD Health News, September 26, 2022
• EASD 2022 Another Study Shows Fenofibrate Benefit on Diabetic Retinopathy While a Korean study shows reduction in diabetic retinopathy progression by 11% with fenofibrate plus statin compared with statin alone, some reservations remain over wider use.
  Medscape Medical News, September 23, 2022