Pediatrics Strabismus News

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — R.V. Paul Chan, MD, the head of the department of ophthalmology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, discussed updates on pediatric retina during a presentation at Hawaiian Eye 2022.

Pediatric patients with obesity were more likely to have high myopia compared with their peers with a normal BMI, according to data presented at the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting.

Pediatric ophthalmologists reported more frequently performing immediate sequential bilateral cataract surgery in infants and children younger than 10 years, according to a presentation at the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting.

GoCheck, creator of the GoCheck Kids platform designed to screen for vision conditions in children at younger ages, announced $10 million in new funding, according to a press release.

Ecological momentary interventions have grown in popularity and offer individualized approaches to alter behavior in a medically meaningful way, according to a commentary in JAMA Ophthalmology.

Alan B. Scott, MD, a lifelong innovator and the inventor of Botox, died at age 89 years on Dec. 16, 2021, according to a social media statement from those close to him.

NEW ORLEANS — Older age at presentation may be associated with a significantly decreased risk for germline mutation in children with solitary unilateral retinoblastoma, according to a presenter here.

NEW ORLEANS — In this Healio Video Perspective from the AAO meeting, Yair Yahav, CEO of RevitalVision, discusses RevitalVision technology, which helps improve vision through the brain.

NEW ORLEANS — Children younger than 14 years of age who had partial-thickness corneal pathologies benefited long term from deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty, according to a presentation.

A hand-held vision screening device reliably detected amblyopia in a general pediatric population, according to research published in the Journal of AAPOS.