Tag: research
A name you may hear down the road: Durasert.
What is it?
A tiny (3.5mm!)Â injectable, sustained-release drug delivery system containing fluocinolone acetonide that can last for up to three years.
Why am I bringing this...
Why, universe, can’t sour patch kids be consider healthy?
A study suggests there is a link between a healthy diet and age-related cataracts. Researchers found differences between the gut bacteria of people that...
AMD and dark adaptation.
A study out of Mass Eye and Ear found several factors that affect dark adaptation in AMD patients.
What do we know?
AMD patients have worse...
Are you 36 years old? If not, you’ve still got...
According to a new study, the visual cortex matures until a person reaches 36 years of age, plus or minus around 4.5 years.
The research is...
Contacts with a little bling.
A contact lens implanted with traces of gold could treat glaucoma. Researchers affiliated with Purdue University have developed a prototype contact lens that can electrically stimulate...
Has it already been a year?
Avedro (maker of the FDA approved corneal cross-linking system) announced the one year results from their phase 3 clinical trial.
The summary?
At the 12 month...
First it was male doctors, now it’s the aging doctor.
Last December, a Harvard study showed female doctors had better outcomes for their elderly patients than their male counterparts. Now Harvard is going after the olds.
They reviewed data...
What your patient might ask you…
Have you ever seen a patient with Ebola?
An article in Newsweek discussed the interesting retinal lesions associated with Ebola survivors. They cite this study that examined 82 Ebola...
Is a child more likely to get an infiltrate from contact...
The short answer? No.
A review published in Optometry and Vision Science examined data from a wide range of studies on contact lens wear in the pediatric...
Another study that says you are what you eat.
Researchers from Tufts University observed that a high glycemic index diet resulted in many AMD features including RPE hypopigmentation and atrophy, lipofuscin accumulation, and photoreceptor degeneration in...