When listening to someone speak, we also rely on lip-reading and gestures to help us understand what the person is saying.To link these sights and sounds, the brain has to know where each stimulus is located so it can coordinate processing of related v…
Improved understanding of cause of Giant Cell Arteritis
New research from Queen Mary University of London has revealed – for the first time – how the condition Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA) may be caused by a certain group of white blood cells called ‘neutrophils’. GCA (also known as temporal arteritis) is a c…
Ocular Surface Immune Response in Dry Eye Disease: Analysis of Conjunctival and Peripheral Corneal Immune Cell Alterations by In Vivo Confocal Microscopy and Clinical Correlation
Status: Recruiting,
Condition Summary: Dry Eye Disease
VIDEO Update on oculoplastics at Hawaiian Eye 2014
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Monday kicks off Hawaiian Eye clinical content for general ophthalmologists, retina
KOLOA, Hawaii – Monday’s Comprehensive Ophthalmology program will focus on Cataract/IOL Advances in Techniques and Technology to Improve Patient Outcomes. Retina will focus on Retinal Imaging and New Retinal Technologies. It is “Reimbursement Day” for the Administrator Program. The Nurse and Allied Health Program will focus on cataract and refractive topics.
Physicians should prepare for intended – and unintended consequences – of Sunshine Act
KOLOA, Hawaii — There are intended consequences of health care reform, but there will likely be unintended consequences as well, a speaker said here. The intended and “noble” consequences of health care reform are to provide health insurance coverage for those who do not have coverage, to increase access to health care and to control costs, Alan E. Reider, JD, MPH, of Arnold and Porter, said at the Hawaiian Eye meeting. The unintended consequences may be the elimination or reduction of health insurance coverage for those who currently have it, (Read more...)