A type of high-power blue laser toy readily available over the Internet and increasingly popular among male teens and young adults can cause serious, sometimes irreversible, eye damage, according to a report by investigators from Saudi Arabia’s King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital and Johns Hopkins Medicine.
JAMA Delves Deep Into What’s Ailing American Healthcare
In a special issue, titled ‘Critical Issues in U.S. Health Care,’ JAMA explores solutions. Medscape Medical News
American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) 2013 Annual Meeting
Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from AAO 2013. Medscape Ophthalmology
Removing Retained Lens Fragments: Now or Later?
Removing a retained lens fragment right away makes intuitive sense, but is waiting really a bad idea? Medscape Ophthalmology
Beware of government’s authority to suspend Medicare payments
Early in 2011 CMS published regulations that went virtually unnoticed by the provider community, but could have a profound impact on any provider affected by them.Under the provisions of Title 42, Code of Federal Regulations, section 405.371, either CMS or a Medicare contractor may suspend all Medicare payments to a provider if CMS or the contractor has “reliable information” that an overpayment exists, or that there is suspected fraud based on a “credible allegation of fraud.”
Imaging the Posterior Segment of the Eye using Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography in Myopic Glaucoma Eyes: Comparison with Enhanced-Depth Imaging – Accepted Manuscript
Abstract: Purpose: To compare the detection rates of identifying the posterior border of the sclera and lamina cribrosa and measurement reproducibility of scleral and laminar thicknesses using enhanced depth imaging (EDI) of Heidelberg Spectralis optic…