Ocular Disease

Ryzumvi effectively reduced pharmacologically induced mydriasis within 60 to 90 minutes compared with placebo, while also exhibiting a favorable safety profile, according to results from two studies published in Ophthalmology.

NovaBay Pharmaceuticals has entered a definitive agreement to sell its Avenova brand and business assets to Physician Recommended Nutriceuticals for $9.5 million in cash, the company announced in a press release.

“The one who knows when not to act is wise,” the playwright Euripides wrote over 2,400 years ago. Are you wise enough to know the situations in which you should not send a patient with a cataract for surgery?

SEATTLE — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ARVO meeting, Ali Tafreshi of Topcon Healthcare overviews the launch of the company and its mission of delivering AI-based “health care from the eye.”

Patients with idiopathic infantile nystagmus syndrome had better best-corrected visual acuity but scored lower on quality-of-life assessments compared with those whose condition was associated with ocular disease, according to research.

The prevalence of ocular comorbidities among hearing-impaired children was significant and associated with male sex and type of hearing impairment, according to research conducted in Malawi and published in Clinical Optometry.

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.

RetinalGeniX Technologies has been granted a patent for its System and Method for Visualization of Ocular Anatomy, designed to aid in diagnosis of ocular and systemic diseases, according to a company press release.

Self-administered, remote virtual reality visual field testing can reliably monitor ocular disease in individuals with stable visual field defects, according to research published in the Journal of Glaucoma.

Therapies for treating glaucoma, including doxycycline and blue-light filtering IOLs, made top headlines this year in optometry news.