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Subspecialties Cataract

The Malyugin Ring in FLACS

Femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery in eyes with small pupils can be tricky and fraught with problems. Pupil expansion devices can help overcome them.

Subspecialties Cornea / Ocular Surface

Decorin: Strengthening the Cornea Without UV Light?

A naturally-occurring proteogylcan, decorin, can effect CXL-like biomechanical changes when applied to ex-vivo human and porcine corneas.

Subspecialties Health Economics and Policy

The Economics of Gene Therapy

| Irv Arons

Gene and stem cell therapies hold the promise of restoring vision in patients with retinal diseases – but who should be paying for these treatments, and how?

Subspecialties Cataract

Eye, Robot

Ophthalmic surgery that incorporates robotic assistance holds the promise of surgeries that are “better than the best of humans”

Business & Profession Other

Broken Bad

Methamphetamine manufacturers with work-related ocular injuries have particularly poor outcomes

Subspecialties Cornea / Ocular Surface

Success Second Time Round

Second corneal transplants are far more likely to be rejected than first-time grafts – but now that we know why, we might be able to prevent it

Subspecialties Professional Development

An Old Head on Young Shoulders

| Bala Ambati

Sitting Down With… Bala Ambati, Professor of Ophthalmology, Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, UT, USA.

Subspecialties Refractive

One Test to Rule Them All?

Measuring refractive error at six years of age may be the best way to predict which children will go on to become myopes

Subspecialties Cornea / Ocular Surface

Advancing OCT Angiography

| Sponsored by Heidelberg Engineering

OCT angiography (OCT-A) is poised to augment, and in many cases, replace traditional methods of examining the retinal and choroidal vasculature – once certain technical challenges are addressed.

Business & Profession Other

Foreign Device Trial Data Fine With FDA

Draft guidelines released by the FDA clarifies what foreign device study data it will accept

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