Comanagement News

NYU Langone Medical Center held a press conference today to announce the successful completion of the most extensive face transplant to date, which took 26 hours and involved more than 100 staff members.

The American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery have released a joint paper updating their positions on transferring care and comanagement.

As part of Primary Care Optometry News’ 20th anniversary celebration, in each issue throughout 2015 we will profile a “Pioneer in Optometry” as chosen by the PCON Editorial Board.

NEW ORLEANS – A number of common ocular conditions seen in the optometrist’s office may be masquerading as melanoma, according to presenters here at the American Academy of Optometry plenary session.

The signature aspect of the Affordable Care Act is the list of essential benefits that are required for the health care exchange. These benefits, however, are moving beyond the marketplace of the exchange programs and becoming the standard for all health care products. These benefits are a big step away from the traditional insurance-based programs that require sickness or injury to make a “claim” and toward health maintenance programs that focus on prevention, wellness and health.

Researchers found that oral pilocarpine is effective in treating dry eye in patients with Sjögren’s syndrome who were resistant to traditional treatment, according to Kawakita and colleagues in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology.

NEW ORLEANS – Harry A. Quigley, MD, urged attendees here at the Optometric Glaucoma Society meeting to perform visual field testing more frequently.

NEW ORLEANS – A patient with a pressure of 21 mm Hg would have a 12%, 4% or 30% risk of visual field loss according to the Collaborative Normal Tension Glaucoma study, Collaborative Initial Glaucoma Treatment Study and Early Management Glaucoma Trial results, respectively, said a presenter here at the Optometric Glaucoma Society meeting.

HelpMeSee is collaborating with the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in Gambia to eliminate the cataract surgical backlog in Gambia by 2018.

NEW ORLEANS – Ocular melanoma can lead to death, but optometrists can make an early diagnosis by using ultrasound, autofluorescence, fundus photography and optical coherence tomography.