Ophthalmology News

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

BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective from the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, ESCRS president Filomena Ribeiro, MD, PhD, speaks about key initiatives of the organization.

Patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration who experienced catastrophic vision loss after subretinal hemorrhage were linked to longer anti-VEGF treatment duration and shorter time from prior injection.

I. Howard Fine, MD , an internationally recognized leader in ophthalmology and past president of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, died on Aug. 29, according to a Facebook post from his practice.

Tom Lee was crushed. Having just flown home across 12 time zones returning from a volunteer trip to Armenia, he heard some very disturbing news.

“Friendship is essentially a partnership.”

The article “Case report: Amblyopic reversal in an adult” by Kumar and colleagues in the March 10, 2024, issue of Healio | OSN reports on a 49-year-old woman who “showed spontaneous improvement of visual acuity in the amblyopic eye following loss of vision in the contralateral sound eye.”

Those who read my Lindstrom’s Perspective regularly know that I have a special interest in demographics and medical economics. This time, I am going to share a few thoughts on the medical economics of managing the progressive myope.

Data published in July in JAMA Ophthalmology showed that 0.01% atropine drops safely curbed myopia progression in children with intermittent exotropia and myopia.

With recent developments in AI and technology, potential improvements in vision screening tests are being examined in ophthalmology.