Ophthalmology News

Recent research has suggested that GLP-1 agonists used to treat obesity might be associated with a stroke in the optic nerve, but association is not the same as causation.

A paper recently published in JAMA Ophthalmology by Hathaway and colleagues at Harvard suggested a potential association between prescribed semaglutide and an increased risk for nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy.

Traumatic iris repair is not uncommon.

As ophthalmologists, we face almost daily pressure to adopt the latest and greatest technologies and techniques. With so much competing information, it can be challenging to know what new innovations are truly worth pursuing.

“Perfect partners don’t exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.”

Drugs utilized to treat systemic diseases can do harm to the eye and its neural connections.

A 53-year-old man presented to the comprehensive ophthalmology service at New England Eye Center for a second opinion of a new dark gray spot in his upper right visual field.

BARCELONA, Spain – In this Healio Video Perspective from the Euretina congress, Tien Yin Wong, MD, shares his thoughts on the emerging role of AI in retina.

A shortened adjuvant chemotherapy regimen improved outcomes for infants with unilateral pathologic high-risk retinoblastoma, according to study results.

Patients who reside in socioeconomically deprived neighborhoods have a higher chance to present with more severe rhegmatogenous retinal detachment, according to a study.