Use of a short educational cartoon on patching for occlusion therapy improved compliance among children with amblyopia.

The Women’s Preventive Services Initiative, after reviewing more than 2,000 abstracts and 300 full-text articles, recommended that primary care physicians screen women and adolescent girls aged 13 years or older for anxiety.

Patients on peritoneal dialysis who received daily probiotic supplementation saw improvements in measures related to malnutrition and health-related quality of life, according to results of a randomized controlled trial conducted in China.

A 20-year-old primigravid woman was admitted to the labor and delivery ward at Tufts Medical Center for monitoring of preeclampsia. She was at 32 weeks of gestation.

Major ophthalmology meetings are a great source of renewing friendships, catching up on the latest information and techniques, and seeing the new toys we all love to use. It is a big part of each year and critical for our professional organizations for all the same reasons, as well as paying the bills for all the work they do. I get it: Canceling a big meeting is, well, a big deal. I have never missed an American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting in 45 years. It has been like part of the landscape, as locked into my thinking as the changes of the seasons. So, I fully understand the forces that are pushing the decision to keep this meeting open even though the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, correctly in my opinion, canceled their meetings with equally strong reasons why they would want to keep those meetings going.

A pterygium consists of a triangular, thickened mass of conjunctival and subconjunctival fibrovascular tissue with elastotic degeneration that crosses the limbus and invades the cornea, possibly interfering with vision.

During the recent quarantine period from the COVID pandemic, many premium surgeons, like myself, had much time to reflect on how we can make each of our practices better than ever upon our return.

Pinhole pupilloplasty has been described in cases with higher-order corneal aberrations to channelize the rays of light emerging from the central cornea, simultaneously barring and filtering the light from the irregular peripheral cornea.

“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”

Corneal collagen cross-linking is now FDA approved and is a mainstay of the U.S. and global armamentarium for patients with potentially progressive keratoconus.