Business in Brief
December 15, 2021
From appointments to product launches… What’s new in the ophthalmic industry?
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Reinventing the Eyedrop: the story of Cationorm
March 12, 2014
Making an optimal eyedrop formulation has always been a major challenge; compromises had to be made. Nanodroplet emulsion technology has changed that. Here’s how.
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Glaucoma awareness from a global perspective
March 12, 2014
To mark World Glaucoma Week, here are some of the many creative approaches being taken to communicate awareness of the disease around the world.
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Top Tips for Travellers
March 12, 2014
Attending conferences, making presentations and sitting on committees is part and parcel of the job for leading ophthalmologists. Here are my tips to make sure you arrive fresh and look the part.
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Benchmarking Glaucoma
March 11, 2014
What does analysis of the last five years of literature on glaucoma tell us about the priorities of the field and the major contributors to it?
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CLASS-y Laser Treats Glaucoma
March 11, 2014
Transforming complex, invasive and risky glaucoma surgery into a safe, elegant, and precise procedure.
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Championing the Will of Wills
March 11, 2014
Sitting down with Julia Haller, Ophthalmologist-in-Chief, and Joseph Bilson, Chief Executive Officer of the Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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Combining Laser and Anti-VEGF for the Treatment of DME
March 10, 2014
Advances in understanding of the therapeutic mechanisms that underpin micropulse laser treatment suggest that protocols for treatment of diabetic macular edema should be integrated.
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How to Improve Visual Acuity Testing
March 10, 2014
The Salzburg Reading Desk is one promising approach to standardizing visual assessments for multifocal intraocular lenses.
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Why Snellen Must Die
March 10, 2014
For the sake of our patients and our profession, we need to improve upon the nineteenth-century pictograms that are currently used for visual assessment.
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A Vision Timebomb
March 10, 2014
Although baby boomers may be in a state of denial regarding their own aging, ophthalmologists know differently. In particular, four diseases of the ageing eye comprise a demographic and economic timebomb. What will the consequences be of that bomb going off, and how might it be defused?
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Big in Japan
March 10, 2014
Acucela prices its initial public offering on the Tokyo Stock Exchange at $162M.
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All is Not Lost
March 10, 2014
Vision training can restore some of the sight lost to glaucoma.
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STAP! Not so fast
March 10, 2014
The new method to produce stem cells has run into difficulties in the form of image irregularities and the failure of other labs to reproduce the findings.
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Aspirin not Linked to AMD
March 10, 2014
Previous studies linked aspirin use with age-related macular degeneration, but new data suggest otherwise: aspirin is innocent of all charges.
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Statins Protect Elderly Against Macular Degeneration
March 10, 2014
If you’re aged over 68 years, then statins significantly reduce your risk of developing AMD; it has no impact on younger age groups.
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Dua for the Price of One
March 10, 2014
The finding that the core of the trabecular meshwork is an extension of Dua’s layer may have significance in understanding and treating glaucoma.
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See the Benefits of a Good Workout
March 10, 2014
Mice that take exercise exhibit slower retinal degeneration than those that don’t. It could work for people too.
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Benchmarking Ophthalmology
March 10, 2014
Our cataloging of the major eye diseases is insightful, even though impact factor analysis is flawed.
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World Travel for a Write up of Your Work
March 5, 2014
The Ophthalmologist Travel Award represents a great opportunity: the chance of a free trip to the AAO 2014 congress in Chicago – flights, accommodation, and congress registration fees, in return for a chronic DME case study.
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