The Balancing Act: Retirement Versus Student Loans
As the cost of secondary education continues to rise, physicians are entering the workforce...
Ophthalmology Newsletter
How Do US Physician Salaries Compare With Those Abroad?
In a recent International Compensation Report, earnings for physicians in the US, UK, Germany,...
What Financial Relief Options Are Available to Struggling Practices?
Although medical practices have ways to optimize their revenue cycle management, pandemic-related...
Medical Fiction: Frank and the Door
This is one of a collection of stories that are like “Final Destination” meets “The Monkey’s Paw”...
Our Patients Are Using More Supplements: Here’s How We Can Guide Them
Among the less-noted consequences of COVID-19, many Americans have become more health-conscious...
Medical Fiction: Brandi, Brian, and the Cupid
This is one of a collection of stories that are like “Final Destination” meets “The Monkey’s Paw”...
#PWChat Recap: Empowering Physicians to Discuss Vaccination With Patients
The latest installment of the #PWChat series centered around empowering physicians to discuss...
The retinal pigment epithelium: Development, injury responses, and regenerative potential in mammalian and non-mammalian systems.
Diseases that result in retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) degeneration, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD), are among the leading causes of blindness worldwide. Atrophic (dry) AMD is the most prevalent form of AMD and...
Discovery of Novel Small-Molecule Antiangiogenesis Agents to Treat Diabetic Retinopathy.
Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness which is associated with excessive angiogenesis. Using the structure of wondonin marine natural products, we previously created a scaffold to develop a novel type of...
Automatic identification of myopic maculopathy related imaging features in optic disc region via machine learning methods.
Myopic maculopathy (MM) is the most serious and irreversible complication of pathologic myopia, which is a major cause of visual impairment and blindness. Clinic proposed limited number of factors related to MM. To explore...
Citizen science with colour blindness: A case study on the Forel-Ule scale.
Many citizen science projects depend on colour vision. Examples include classification of soil or water types and biological monitoring. However, up to 1 in 11 participants are colour blind. We simulate the impact of various...
Corneal thickness changes in myopic children during and after short-term orthokeratology lens wear.
To evaluate thickness changes in the central and mid-peripheral cornea (CCT and mPCT), corneal epithelium (CET and mPET) and stroma (CST and mPST) of myopic children during and after short-term orthokeratology (ortho-k) lens...
