Optometry News

The American Optometric Association and CooperVision have partnered to launch The Myopia Collective, which aims to elevate the standard of care for children with myopia through comprehensive treatment, rather than just correction.

Researchers at NIH have developed an AI-assisted strategy that can improve cellular contrast of retinal images captured via OCT while reducing image acquisition and processing time by nearly 100-fold.

In a 3-2 vote, the Federal Trade Commission passed a final rule that bans new noncompete agreements with all workers in for-profit organizations.

BOSTON — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ASCRS meeting, Adam K. Muzychuk, MD, FRCSC, discusses findings that compared an “ultra-low” cylinder-powered 0.9 D toric IOL with a non-toric IOL after cataract surgery.

BOSTON — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ASCRS meeting, Alice T. Epitropoulos, MD, FACS, discusses Vevye, a cyclosporine solution that treats signs and symptoms of dry eye disease.

PeriVision announced FDA registration for its first medical software product, VisionOne, a cloud-based platform that uses portable virtual reality headsets and AI technology to help eye care providers configure eye tests and analyze results.

How many times have you seen a dry eye disease patient with little or no remaining clinical signs, only to learn that they are so stricken with photophobia that they’ve become nocturnal?

Oral minocycline was not associated with a reduction in geographic atrophy enlargement over 24 months vs. a 9-month run-in period among patients with age-related macular degeneration, according to a study in JAMA Ophthalmology.

BOSTON — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ASCRS meeting, Kin Sheng Lim, MD, discusses a randomized controlled trial on endoscopic cyclophotocoagulation, or ECP, for primary open-angle glaucoma.

BOSTON — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ASCRS meeting, Richard A. Lewis, MD, chief medical officer of ViaLase, provides an update on femtosecond laser image-guided high-precision trabeculotomy for the treatment of glaucoma.