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What your patient might ask you…

Is there a study that says daily contacts are better than reusable lenses? Here's one. A study of 36 habitual contact lens wearers was completed to...

Move over LASIK, PiXL is coming.

Six month interim results were recently released on the clinical trial of PiXL for low myopia. What is PiXL? Photorefractive intrastromal corneal crosslinking. In 20/20 Glance speak, it's...

Can a blood test tell if a patient has AMD?

New research from Mass Eye and Ear says it can. Researchers obtained blood samples from 90 patients with AMD (30 with early AMD, 30 with intermediate...

The gold contact lens is back in the news.

A new startup says they can prevent glaucoma by using a contact lens implanted with traces of gold. How would that work? A special pair of glasses transmits a signal...

What your patient might ask you…

Will losing weight help my dry eye? A recent study showed a correlation between higher body fat percentage and dry eye. The study included over 300 participants and each participant completed a...

Stem cell clinics and the FDA.

The FDA is cracking down on unapproved stem cells clinics. This past Friday they raided an office in California that was injecting small pox vaccines...

Could a finger prick of blood help treat dry eye?

A 2015 study says it can and it was highlighted in the news this past week. The study involves a case report of three patients with...

Do clinical trial results give the same results in real life?

Not according to a recent analysis of anti-VEGF treatments for diabetic macular edema. A research team looked at the medical records of almost 6,000 patients...

The glaucoma and mental health connection.

A study published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology found an association between glaucoma, anxiety, and depression. The study looked at over 4 million patient charts...

What your patient might ask you…

What do you think of a virtual glaucoma clinic? A study published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology compared the agreement in glaucoma clinical decision making between two groups:...