Archive for April 2024

In the January 2024 issue of the journal Ophthalmology, Dr. Jamie Keen and colleagues published a study highlighting a side effect of the medication Tepezza. Tepezza is advertised on TV for thyroid eye disease. One of the adverse effects of the medication is that it can adversely affect hearing function. The article warns that it…

I venture that it is intuitively obvious that an ointment would be a better lubricant than a watery liquid, but perhaps it is not. Often, I tell my patients that the best thing that they can do if they have a tear film problem, which I argue that most patients do, is lubricate their eye…

In the December 2023 edition of the journal Ophthalmology, Dr. Joshua Ehrlich and colleagues published a study that showed that the prevalence of eye disease is increasing. They studied Medicare beneficiaries 68 years old and older. Among other findings, they found that the prevalence of macular degeneration increased from 6.8% in 2005 to 9.4% in…

In the November 2023 edition of the journal Cornea, Dr. Aina Malindri Dasrilsyah and colleagues published a study that showed that insulin eye drops are helpful for healing corneal scratches. They compared topical insulin with artificial tears in patients with diabetes. The scratches of the cornea were created during eye surgery (to help with retina…