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Should Steroids Be Your First Port of Call in the Pseudophakic Eye?

| José Cunha-Vaz

Anti-VEGF agents are effective in treating DME – but not always indefinitely. Steroids work – but accelerate cataract development.

Subspecialties Retina

My Retina, My Rules

| Roisin McGuigan

Ophthalmologists would change recommendations if treating themselves

Subspecialties Retina

A Glut of Glucose? Gibberish!

| Mark Hillen

Statins may interfere with glucose metabolism, and their use might be damaging the diabetic eye. Or perhaps not...

Business & Profession Retina

The Bionic Eye: Fact, Not Science Fiction

| Amanda Hayhurst

As Second Sight’s Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System nears its 100 patient milestone, we look at how the device has impacted the lives of those implanted

Subspecialties Retina

VIIP: A Space Odyssey

| Mark Hillen

Many astronauts develop eye problems in space. NASA wants to know why, so they’ve established the Vision Impairment and Intracranial Pressure (VIIP) program.

Subspecialties Retina

Awh versus the NEI

| Roisin McGuigan

Are people with certain genotypes actively harmed by AREDS supplementation, accelerating AMD?

Subspecialties Retina

Choroid Cartography

| Mark Hillen

Why are certain regions of the choroid more prone to disease than others? To answer that, you need proteomics

Business & Profession Retina

The Nano State

| Robert Langer, Justin Hanes, Hongming Chen

Imagine prescribing eye drops to treat wet AMD, or delivering genes to the retina of patients with retinitis pigmentosa. Nanotechnology can do both – and it could potentially transform ophthalmology

Business & Profession Retina

The Art Of Eyes

Popular culture has always viewed eyes as being things of beauty. But there’s more to the eye than the color of your irides.

Subspecialties Retina

A Retinoid a Day Keeps The Blindness Away

| Mark Hillen

Oral replacement therapy of the retinoid intermediate that fails to form in some types of Leber congenital amaurosis shows significant promise in an early-phase clinical trial

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