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Business & Profession Professional Development

Educational Excellence – For Patients

| Mark Hillen

Electronic patient education systems look great, offer flexibility in what’s communicated and can be branded with your logo. Goodbye textbooks!

Subspecialties Cataract

Great Expectations Fuel IOL Inclinations

| Mark Hillen

Cataract surgery and IOL implantation have come a long way since the 1990s, and it appears that technical innovations are stoking demand more than medical need.

Business & Profession Professional Development

Ophthalmologists are Healthy, Wealthy and Wise

| Mark Hillen

Medscape assessed the lifestyles of physicians; of the twenty-six specialties covered, ophthalmologists have the most to boast about.

Subspecialties Retina

Ranibizumab Reality Bites

| Mark Hillen

In the UK, real-world visual outcomes of patients receiving ranibizumab for neovascular AMD fail to match those achieved in most randomized trials. But they were delivered with substantially fewer injections and hospital visits.

Business & Profession Other

Questioning the “Critical Period”

| Mark Hillen

Received wisdom says that there is a critical period after birth during which the brain is wired for sight; blindness then means blindness for life

Business & Profession Business and Innovation

Google’s Glucose Gadget

| Mark Hillen

Google is developing contact lenses that will help patients monitor their glucose status. The technology is not entirely new, but the company’s infrastructure, experience and muscle suggest that it could have a substantial medical and commercial impact.

Business & Profession Professional Development

The Month in Business

| Mark Hillen

Carl Zeiss and Aaren buy, Alimera raise working capital and Novo A/S make a milestone payment to Ophthotech for Fovista.

Subspecialties Basic & Translational Research

STAP in the Name of Love

| Mark Hillen

An unexpected and simple advance has made stem cell production much easier and safer. Do STAP stem cells bring the treatment, even cure, of ocular disease a lot closer?

Business & Profession Basic & Translational Research

Gene Therapy Clinical Trials

| Irv Arons, Mark Hillen

The EMA approved the first gene therapy agent in 2012 – for lipoprotein lipase deficiency. Might gene therapies for ophthalmic disease reach the wards any time soon?

Subspecialties Imaging & Diagnostics

Retinal Visualization of Schizophrenia

| Mark Hillen

OCT imaging visualizes retinal nerve fiber layers and the thickness of the macula; abnormalities in either can predict the stage and duration of schizophrenia.

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