(MedPage Today) — Lucian Leape, MD, calls for an “FAA-like” federal agency
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Keynote lecture explores modular organization of visual brain
VIENNA — The keynote lecture of the Advanced Retinal Therapy meeting focused this year on the brain basis of vision and modular organization of the visual brain.“Humans are highly visual animals. At least one-third of our cortex is devoted to the problem of figuring out what we are looking at,” Nancy Kanwisher, PhD, a professor at MIT, said.
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Publication Exclusive Ten ways to avoid ophthalmic career senescence
As baby boomer statistics would have it, more than half of today’s ophthalmologists are now in the second half of their career. And like the second half of life, the back-half of one’s professional lifespan — let’s say from age 50 to 70 — is troubled with the progressive whiff of senescence.There is the year when your case volumes or income or both fall for the first time.
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Protocol S evidence expands role of anti-VEGF in proliferative diabetic retinopathy, but laser still useful
VIENNA — DRCR.net Protocol S has shown non-inferiority of ranibizumab to panretinal photocoagulation in the treatment of proliferative diabetic retinopathy, but laser still has a role, according to a speaker here. “I still think both options are useful, and we should get the best of both,” Robert L. Avery, MD, said at the Advanced Retinal Therapy meeting.
Case Challenge: Slowly Growing Eyelid Mass
This woman’s sharp-eyed children have noticed that the ‘bump’ near their mom’s eye is getting bigger. Medscape Dermatology
Mount Sinai scientists develop new tool to determine global role of microRNAs
As microRNA biology has been implicated in everything from the development of cancer to virus infections, a new tool developed by scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai holds tremendous potential to develop new therapies that involve…