Specific morphologic changes detected with spectral-domain optical coherence tomography were associated with progression and severity of geographic atrophy in eyes with age-related macular degeneration, according to a study.Changes identified on SD-OCT were linked to accelerated enlargement of atrophic lesions, larger lesion size and presence of multifocal lesions.
The National Eye Institute has awarded a 5-year $6.4 million grant for a study on the genetics of glaucoma in persons of African descent, according to a press release. The study, ADAGES III: Contribution of genotype to glaucoma phenotype in African-Americans, will be led by Robert N. Weinreb, MD, chairman and distinguished professor of ophthalmology at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and an OSN Glaucoma Board Member.
Corinthia “Cory” Worrell has been named the recipient of the 2013 Virginia S. Boyce Humanitarian Award, according to a press release.The award, given by the Joint Commission on Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology’s Education and Research Foundation, was established in 2000 in honor of Virginia Boyce, the CEO of Prevent Blindness from 1972 to 1982 and a longtime volunteer for JCAHPO and the foundation, the release said.
Research led by physician-scientists at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has produced a breakthrough discovery in diagnosing retinitis pigmentosa, a blinding disease that affects about 1 in 4,000 people i…
Research led by physician-scientists at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has produced a breakthrough discovery in diagnosing retinitis pigmentosa, a blinding disease that affects about 1 in 4,000 people i…
Today had been the original deadline for physicians to ask CMS to calculate their PQRS scores from 2013 Medicare claims, which would spare them a 1.5% pay cut in 2015. Medscape Medical News