Cataract and Refractive Surgery News

• How Can the US Improve Access to Eyeglasses? Expanding insurance coverage for eye services and standardizing pediatric vision screening requirements across the US are two steps that could help begin to solve the problem, researchers say.
  WebMD Health News, May 23, 2022
• Hearing, Vision Loss Combo a Colossal Risk for Cognitive Decline Seniors with hearing or vision loss are at significant risk of cognitive decline, but the risk skyrockets in individuals with both.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• ARVO 2022 Medicare Pays Women in Ophthalmology Half What it Pays Men Medicare pays male ophthalmologists almost $200,000 for every $100,000 it pays female ophthalmologists.
  Medscape Medical News, May 05, 2022
• ARVO 2022 Citrus Spray as Antiseptic before Intravitreal Injections? An antimicrobial citrus extract spray could help prevent endophthalmitis before intravitreal injections.
  Medscape Medical News, May 04, 2022
• ARVO 2022 Contrast-Reducing Spectacles Could Slow Myopia Spectacles that reduce retinal contrast could slow the progression of myopia.
  Medscape Medical News, May 04, 2022
• ACP-IM 2022 How to Address Social Determinants of Health A panel of experts talked about policies to address social determinants of health at the 2022 annual meeting of the American College of Physicians.
  Medscape Medical News, April 29, 2022
• Three Home-Based Visual Acuity Tests Validated Many patients can successfully measure both near and distance visual acuity at home using freely available tests.
  Medscape Medical News, April 04, 2022
• Patient Blinded in One Eye From Surgery Wins $1.2 Million A New York appeals court has upheld a $1.2 million verdict against an eye surgeon after his patient went blind after cataract removal and lens replacement surgery.
  Medscape Medical News, March 29, 2022
• Low Risk of Heart Attack After Eye Procedures, Study Finds Ophthalmologists do not need to routinely delay ophthalmologic procedures in their patients whose blood pressure is not well-controlled, according to study of Scandinavian patient registry data.
  Medscape Medical News, March 22, 2022
• Alert New Contact Lens Elutes Antihistamine for Ocular Allergy A new contact lens that elutes antihistamine has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for ocular allergies.
  FDA Approvals, March 11, 2022
• New Pilocarpine Formulation Effectively Treats Presbyopia A new formulation of pilocarpine, Vuity, has been shown to improve presbyopia in a pivotal phase 3 trial.
  Reuters Health Information, March 10, 2022
• Handle With Care: Managing IBD in Older Patients Patients aged 60 years and older with chronic or newly diagnosed IBD may have comorbidities or use medications that can interfere with IBD therapies.
  Medscape Medical News, February 15, 2022
• Specialized Spectacles Slow Myopia During Lockdown Spectacles designed to slow the progression of myopia appear to work even during a COVID-19 lockdown.
  Medscape Medical News, January 18, 2022
• Ophthalmologist Who Developed Medical Botox Dies at 89 He found the drug, once a poison and a weapon, to be effective for treatment of obscure eye diseases before it became the blockbuster fix for wrinkles and treating excessive perspiration.
  Medscape Medical News, December 20, 2021
• Cataract Surgery Seen Protective Against Dementia A new study found that patients who underwent cataract surgery appeared to gain significant protection against dementia over time.
  Medscape Medical News, December 10, 2021
• Surgeries Rebounded During Height of COVID Surgeries dropped by 48% in initial pandemic shutdowns, but were back to 2019 levels by the fall of 2020 as centers adapted.
  Medscape Medical News, December 09, 2021
• Retinopathy Risk in Kids Higher in Type 2 Than Type 1 Diabetes Children diagnosed with type 2 diabetes appear significantly more likely to develop retinopathy and other ocular complications than children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.
  Medscape Medical News, December 02, 2021
• AAO 2021 Distance Learning May Cause Convergence Insufficiency Children may be experiencing more convergence insufficiency as a result of looking at screens for distance learning mandated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Medscape Medical News, November 16, 2021
• Alert FDA Approves Eye Drops for Presbyopia An eye drop to treat presbyopia has won approval from the FDA for the first time.
  FDA Approvals, November 01, 2021
• Digital Therapy for Amblyopia Improves Vision Without Patch or Eye Drops A new therapy for amblyopia, which uses a virtual-reality headset to modify videos to promote weaker eye usage and encourage patients' brains to combine the input from both eyes, significantly improves vision, results from a phase 3 trial suggest.
  Reuters Health Information, October 28, 2021