An Office-Based Fix-And-Follow Grading System Assessing Visual Function in Preverbal Children published in the November 2021 issue of BMC Ophthalmology outlines a reproducible method in assessing visual function of infants and toddlers. I must admit that I do not have much experience working with this patient population. I feel more comfortable working with kids five […]
Red light therapy seems to be the new thing in regards to fixing everything from pre-mature aging of the skin, meibomian gland disease, and, it turns out, amblyopia. We intend to use a device that emits red light at 650 nm in wavelength based on the fact that it has already been approved and widely […]
Sara and I discuss the relatively new Raybans Stories camera glasses in the latest episode of the podcast.
Association of Parental Myopia With Higher Risk of Myopia Among Multiethnic Children Before School Age looks in the March 2020 issue of JAMA Ophthalmology looks at data not previously before noted. There are tons of studies regarding how school age children develop myopia and nearsightedness. This one hones in on how myopia develops in children […]
Compliance with wear and care instructions in contact lens patients is very important. Experience with patients tells us that it is pretty dismal. Patients usually overwear their lenses, don’t clean them properly, do not replace disinfecting solutions, sleep in lenses when they’re not supposed to, don’t replace their cases often enough or at all. I […]
Most of you reading this are aware of Vuity (AbbVie), the newly FDA-approved drug to reduce the need for reading glasses. Dr. Toomey and I discussed some of the preliminary information on the podcast before the drug was released. The data is very compelling. I met with one of their medical liaisons, and he gave […]
N–3 Fatty Acid Supplementation for the Treatment of Dry Eye Disease published in the May 2018 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine supposedly proved that using n-3 (aka omega-3) fatty acids are no better than a placebo in treating dry eye disease. Among patients with dry eye disease, those who were randomly assigned […]
I get most of my paper ideas from a free service call Practice Update. When you sign up, you enter in what you are interested in, and they send you a list of links everyday. They all have some commentary, but I enjoy reading them myself. Only about half are fully accessible. The other half […]
In yesterday’s post about the association between cataracts and dementia, one of the variables that they solved for was the E4 allele of the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE4). The E4 allele of the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) has been firmly established as a genetic risk factor for many diseases including cardiovascular diseases and Alzheimer’s disease […]
I remember a number of years back at a lecture hearing about a study that reported a significant reduction in the risk of a fall if a patient had cataract surgery. This study reminds me of that. Association Between Cataract Extraction and Development of Dementia published in the December 2021 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine […]