April 16th 2024
The prosthesis bypasses the optic nerve and sends images directly to the patient's brain to create artificial sight.
Application of Recent Data in Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Diabetic Macular Edema: Managed Care Insights and Strategies
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(CME Credit) Community Practice Connection™: Paradigm Shifts in Presbyopia – Understanding Advances in Topical Treatment Innovations
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(COPE Credit) Analyzing Novel Tear Stimulating Treatments for Special Populations in Dry Eye Disease
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(CME/CNE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Restoring the Surface Impact of Preservatives and Novel Formulations in First Line Treatments for Dry Eye Disease
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(CME/CNE Credit) Analyzing Novel Tear Stimulating Treatments for Special Populations in Dry Eye Disease
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(CME Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Improving Management of MGD-Associated Dry Eye Disease—A Look to the Future of Treatment
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Improving Management of MGD-Associated Dry Eye Disease—A Look to the Future of Treatment
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Restoring the Surface – Impact of Preservatives and Novel Formulations in First Line Treatments for Dry Eye Disease
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18th Annual Controversies in Modern Eye Care
May 4, 2024
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Headed to ARVO? You’re invited to dinner COPE CE/CME. Or join virtually!
May 6 & 7, 2024
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connection™: Paradigm Shifts in Presbyopia – Understanding Advances in Topical Treatment Innovations
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(CME Credit) Learning About the Lid – Optimizing Recognition, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Demodex Blepharitis & Blepharoptosis
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2nd Annual IKA Keratoconus Symposium: Front to Back and Everything in Between
May 18-19, 2024
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(COPE Credit) Learning About the Lid – Optimizing Recognition, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Demodex Blepharitis & Blepharoptosis
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(CME Credit) Virtual Case Studies™ in Cataract Surgery: Selecting Surgical Techniques and Preventing Intra-Operative Complications
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(COPE Credit) Clinical Crossroads: Navigating Neurotrophic Keratitis – The Importance of Avoiding Pitfalls and Ensuring Early Intervention
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Neurotrophic Keratitis Management: How Early Intervention Can Make a Difference
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(CME Credit) Clinical Crossroads: Navigating Neurotrophic Keratitis – The Importance of Avoiding Pitfalls and Ensuring Early Intervention
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17th Annual Controversies in Modern Eye Care
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Thyroid Eye Disease: The Masquerading Eye Disorder—A Guide to Collaborative Care and Accurate Diagnosis
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Keeping an Eye on Evolving Management Strategies for nAMD and DME
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(CME Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Saving Sight—The Expanding Role of the Optometrist in Retinal Disease Care
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Advances in Geographic Atrophy – Optimizing Diagnosis, Monitoring Progression, and Increasing Communication with Transformative Treatment on the Horizon
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Saving Sight—The Expanding Role of the Optometrist in Retinal Disease Care
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(CME Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Advances in Geographic Atrophy – Optimizing Diagnosis, Monitoring Progression, and Increasing Communication with Transformative Treatment on the Horizon
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(CME Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Keeping an Eye on Evolving Management Strategies for nAMD and DME
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What’s New in MGD Beyond Heating and Squeezing?
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The Ins and Outs of Lubricating Eye Drops
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Addressing Healthcare Inequities™ in Glaucoma Management – Understanding Challenges in Segmented Patient Populations (CME Track)
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Community Practice Connections™: Expert Perspectives in Diabetic Macular Edema – Considering Pathogenesis & Inflammation in Treatment Selection
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Risk of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment rises following cataract surgery
October 4th 2022The investigators undertook a study to determine the incidence of rhegmatogenous retinal detachments 1 year after cataract using the IRIS Registry data and to determine the demographic features, ocular comorbidities, and intraoperative factors associated with an increased risk of detachment development.
Late-breaking: Janssen announces data from 2 gene therapy programs
October 2nd 2022Janssen noted that results from Phase 1/2 MGT009 study demonstrate safety profile of investigational gene therapy botaretigene sparoparvovec (AAV-RPGR) and suggest sustained vision improvement in patients with X-linked retinitis pigmentosa.
Faricimab eradicates center-involved DME faster than aflibercept
October 2nd 2022The data analysis indicated that patients achieved robust visual gains and central subfield thickness reductions with faricimab dosed every 8 weeks and with PTI dosing up to every 16 weeks. The gains were sustained through year 2 of the trials.
Continuous range-of-motion IOL scores high in patient satisfaction
September 30th 2022Investigators reported that the safety and efficacy of the Tecnis Synergy IOL model ZFR00V indicates that it may be a good option for patients who desire meaningful gains in uncorrected visual acuity at all distances.
Zika virus linked with fundus lesions in newborns in French territories
September 24th 2022This research team conducted a cross-sectional multicenter study to report the ocular fundus manifestations in infants with congenital ZIKV exposure in French Guiana, Martinique, and Guadeloupe, French West Indies.
Increased dosing for treatment of X-linked retinoschisis linked with inflammation in AAV-RS1 trials
September 20th 2022Investigators have reported good progress in determining how the disease works in the eye; however, a downside is the inflammation that seems to accompany treatment with increased dosing.
LUNA: First patient dosed with Ixo-vec in Phase 2 trial for treatment of wet AMD
September 17th 2022LUNA trial will evaluate the 2x10^11 vg/eye (2E11) and a new lower 6x10^10 vg/eye (6E10) dose of Ixo-vec, with enhanced prophylactic steroid regimens in patients requiring frequent anti-VEGF injections. Interim data anticipated throughout 2023.
First patient enrolled in Phase 2 study of D-4517.2 for treatment of wet AMD, DME
September 8th 2022The first stage of the study will evaluate the safety and relative pharmacodynamic effect of different doses of subcutaneously administered D-4517.2 compared to intravitreal injection of aflibercept, an approved therapy, in both wet AMD and DME patients up to 12 weeks.
First US patient with dry AMD dosed with autologous stem cell therapy
September 8th 2022According to the National Institutes of Health, the therapy was derived from the patient’s blood by converting blood cells to iPS cells which were then programmed to become retinal pigment epithelial cells, which were surgically implanted as a patch of tissue.
OCS-01 improves macular thickness, visual acuity in patients with DME, according to Phase 2 data
September 7th 2022According to a presentation by Oculis at EURETINA, the dataset shows that OCS-01 eye drops were more effective than vehicle in reducing central macular thickness and improving visual acuity in patients with DME as per the pre-defined criteria for statistical superiority in the study protocol.