A new report published online in The FASEB Journal may lead the way toward new treatments or a cure for a common cause of blindness (proliferative retinopathies). Specifically, scientists have discovered that the body’s innate immune system does more t…
Cataract Surgery Improves Vision in Patients With AMD
Cataract surgery significantly improved visual acuity in patients with all levels of age-related macular degeneration severity. Medscape Medical News
Do Physician ‘Rules of Conduct’ Extend Outside of Medicine?
What code of conduct applies to a physician who becomes a politician, journalist, or TV personality hawking medical miracles? Medscape Internal Medicine
Cataract Surgery Outcome in Eyes With Keratoconus
A new study reports on the postoperative refractive outcomes in patients with keratoconus who underwent cataract surgery. What are the results? The British Journal of Ophthalmology
Endo Type: Who Really Has Non-24?
(MedPage Today) — The ad is stirring. There’s no background music, no catchy jingle. Just a deep baritone voice: “You can’t see me because of radio, and I can’t see you because I’m totally blind.?
Debridement offers no advantage in treating microsporidial keratoconjunctivitis
Corneal debridement showed no distinct advantage in resolving corneal lesions and improving vision in eyes treated for microsporidial keratoconjunctivitis, a study found. The prospective, double-masked, randomized study included 120 patients with clini…