Patients with inactive thyroid eye disease continue to have eye symptoms as well as poor mental health and quality of life. Medscape Medical News
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Journal Series Amplifies Voices Against Sexual Harassment
A series of articles in JACC: Case Reports aims to give a ‘voice’ to those in cardiology who have experienced discrimination and sexual harassment, and offers some solutions. Medscape Medical News
A First: Blind Man’s Sight Restored With Optogenetic Therapy
Combining gene therapy with light-stimulating goggles enabled a patient with a 40-year history of blindness caused by retinitis pigmentosa to regain partial sight. Medscape Medical News
Children’s Book Could Help Catch Color Vision Deficiency
Creators of a new children’s book aim to help identify children with color vision deficiency. Medscape Medical News
This Scientist Is Auctioning Off His DNA and Says Yours is Valuable Too
George Church’s genetic information is for sale and the Harvard geneticist, who was one of the first people to ever have his genome sequenced, says personal information can be profitable. Medscape Medical News
Ophthalmologists’ Earnings Weathered 2020 Relatively Well
Despite substantial practice changes during the COVID-19 pandemic, compensation stayed steady. Medscape Medical News
Varenicline Nasal Spray Efficacious for Dry Eye
Nasal spray reduces signs and symptoms of dry eye disease in phase 3 trial. Medscape Medical News
COVID-19 Confinement May Have Caused Myopia in Kids
The COVID-19 pandemic may have contributed to a myopia pandemic. Medscape Medical News
COVID Delay of nAMD Treatment Less Harmful than Expected
Does this suggest that ophthalmologists are overtreating their patients? Medscape Medical News
Vaping Linked to Visual Impairment
An association between e-cigarette use and visual impairment raises questions about the safety of vaping. Medscape Medical News
Faricimab Could Save Injections for AMD and DME
Faricimab is more durable than current treatments and could reduce the number of injections needed to treat macular degeneration and diabetic macular edema. Medscape Medical News
Only 1 in 3 US Adults With Diabetes Receive ADA-Recommended Care
In 2017-2018, only one in three received all of five care elements recommended by the American Diabetes Association. Medscape Medical News
Cancellation of Care Came Mostly From Patients Early in Pandemic
However, much more care was postponed or canceled because patients feared going to medical offices and hospitals. Medscape Medical News
Tebentafusp improves OS: A First in Metastatic Uveal Melanoma
First-line tebentafusp significantly improved overall survival (OS) when compared with immunotherapy or chemotherapy in patients with metastatic uveal melanoma in a phase 3 trial. Medscape Medical News
Ocular Hypertension Trial Supports Watching and Waiting
Clinicians don’t always need to treat ocular hypertension, but should closely monitor patients with this condition, which sometimes progresses to glaucoma, a long-term study suggests. Medscape Medical News
Alcohol Consumption Linked to Reduced Cataract Risk
Red wine had the strongest association with reduced risk of cataract, followed by white wine and champagne and then beer. Medscape Medical News
Aflibercept Won’t Help Vision in Early Diabetic Retinopathy
People with nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy don’t gain visual acuity from aflibercept injections, although their risk for complications is reduced. Medscape Medical News
How Dr Glaucomflecken Overcame Death to Get Internet Laughs
Will Flanary, MD, is the ophthalmologist behind the internet sensation Dr Glaucomflecken. His humor not only brings smiles to those in medicine, it helped him survive cancer (twice) and briefly dying. Medscape Medical News
Erythropoietin Falls Short of Neuroprotection in Optic Neuritis
A higher rate of conversion to multiple sclerosis in the placebo group offered a glimmer of hope for treatment in TONE, a phase 3 randomized trial, but caveats loom large. Medscape Medical News
HDL Mimetic Restores Kidney Function, Vision in Rare Disorder
The HDL mimetic CER-001 may arrest the decline in kidney function and improve the vision of patients with familial lecithin–cholesterol acyltransferase deficiency, suggests a French case report. Medscape Medical News