Cornea/External Disease News

There has been a sea change in the care of patients with keratoconus in the U.S. since the FDA approval of iLink corneal collagen cross-linking in 2016.

BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective from the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Farhad Hafezi, MD, PhD, speaks about cross-linking applied to femto-CAIRS for the treatment of keratoconus.

Sonoma Pharmaceuticals and EMC Pharma have entered into a co-marketing agreement to expand their eye care product lines, according to a press release.

An artificial intelligence system predicted the severity of ocular symptoms in Stevens-Johnson syndrome with toxic epidural necrolysis 5 years after diagnosis, according to a study published in Allergy.

On Aug. 14, the WHO declared the clade I mpox virus outbreak in Africa to be a public health emergency of international concern.

The avascular nature of the cornea is necessary for optical clarity and optimal vision.

CARLSBAD, Calif. — In this Healio Video Perspective from the Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium, Diane M. Hilal-Campo, MD, discusses Twenty/Twenty Beauty, the first ophthalmologist-formulated eye makeup line.

For quite a few years now, we have been hearing the same stats about the prevalence and characteristics of dry eye disease patients in the U.S.

Acanthamoeba keratitis appeared to be a relatively rare disorder with similar incidence around the world, according to a study published in Ophthalmology.