WAILEA, Hawaii – At Hawaiian Eye 2015, Jodi Luchs, MD, discusses a new in-office allergy test that provides ophthalmology practices a new point-of-care diagnostic to improve patient care, along with other diagnostic tests in the pipeline.
VIDEO: Gene therapy has promise for treating retinal diseases
WAILEA, Hawaii – At Retina 2015, Elias Reichel, MD, discusses his presentation on promising gene therapy treatments in development for numerous retinal pathologies.
VIDEO: HARBOR trial advances understanding of treating pigment epithelial detachment
WAILEA, Hawaii – At Retina 2015, Pravin U. Dugel, MD, discusses some of the important findings to emerge from the HARBOR trial related to the treatment of pigment epithelial detachment.
Finding the right candidate can help prevent unhappy refractive patients
WAILEA, Hawaii — Understanding which type of patients can benefit from multifocal premium IOLs can help the refractive surgeon avoid unhappy patients, according to a speaker.“[To begin to understand how to avoid unhappy patients], it starts with understanding the nature of lenses and what their optics look like,” Kevin M. Miller, MD, said here at the Hawaiian Eye 2015 meeting.
Sickle cell retinopathy associated with retinal thinning
WAILEA, Hawaii – Spectral domain optical coherence tomography may be used to gauge retinal anatomic changes in eyes with sickle cell retinopathy, a speaker said here.“If you feel you have a sickle cell patient and you want to determine how severe it is, one of the things that is useful is to look at the OCT and see if there is retinal thinning present,”Jennifer I. Lim, MD, said at Retina 2015. “Sixty percent of your sickle cell patients are going to have this, and most of the time they’re going (Read more...)
Key Opinion Leader Says Healthcare Reform Handcuffs Doctors
The ACA, HIPAA, Medicare, EHRs, and other well-meaning reform efforts often prevent doctors from delivering good patient care, a prominent physician CEO asserts. See whether your colleagues agree. Medscape Business of Medicine