Iodine drops for Covid-conjunctivitis?
A UK ophthalmologist is seeking pharma support to manufacture iodine drops for Covid-associated conjunctivitis and promote them as an alternative to antibiotics.
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Real sports car DNA
US actor Patrick Dempsey, better known as Grey’s Anatomy’s Dr Shepherd, is Porsche’s new brand ambassador. An avid race car driver with his own team, Dempsey Racing, Dempsey has competed in the 24 Hours Le Mans and Rolex 24 at Daytona.
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Biosensor CL unveiled
The Terasaki Institute in Los Angeles has pioneered a prototype contact lens with microchannels to improve tear flow and evaluate biomarkers in tears.
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CPD simplification
The Optometrist and Dispensing Opticians Board (ODOB) is changing the continuing professional development (CPD) programme for optometrists replacing the two current CPD classes, clinical diagnostic and general, with one class known as general.
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After the unprecedented events of 2020, many of us are pressing the ‘restart’ button during 2021. Directly or indirectly, we have all been shaken by the pandemic and served an important wake-up call that life is too short to let superficial pressures come before what is most important. It all boils
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Covid and cornea donation
Researchers from the Kellogg Eye Center in Michigan, USA, have confirmed the presence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in human post-mortem ocular tissues intended for transplant, suggesting the virus could be transferred to otherwise healthy patients via donor eye tis
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Pressure mounts for eye health survey
New Zealand’s eye care organisations’ umbrella group Eye Health Aotearoa* has launched an open letter petition addressed to the health minister Andrew Little, calling on the government to fund New Zealand’s first National Eye Health Survey (NEHS).
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Hand sanitisers cause rise in paediatric eye lesions
The French Poison Control Centre has reported a sevenfold increase in alcohol-based hand-sanitiser (ABHS) ocular exposures in children in 2020, while in other countries paediatric ophthalmologists are
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Cefuroxime irrigation to combat endophthalmitis
Chinese researchers have shown that adding the antibiotic cefuroxime to the irrigating solution used during cataract surgery reduces the risk of postoperative endophthalmitis. The nine-year
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Closing macular holes with drops
Medicated drops may help close small macular holes over a two- to eight-week period, allowing some people to avoid surgery, a new US study has found. The findings, based on a retrospective multicentre
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Covid-19, keratitis and endophthalmitis?
According to a review by the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), three Covid-19 patients in their sixties, admitted to New York’s Northwell Health Hospital within the same two-month period in
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LHON gene-therapy surprise
A phase III clinical trial of gene therapy for the treatment of Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) has demonstrated a bilateral improvement of vision after injection of just one eye. The trial,
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