Archive for July 2024

Recently, there has been a focus on sustainability in the eye operating room. We do lots of surgeries per day, so it is very important to consider the waste that we produce. If we can create just a little less waste per surgery, it can really add up given the total number of surgeries. Reducing…

In the March 2024 edition of the journal Ophthalmology, Dr. Casey Crump and colleagues published a study that found that patients with glaucoma were at increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia. This means that patients with glaucoma may need specific monitoring for development of dementia, especially given that some dementia treatments…

In the March 2024 edition of JAMA Ophthalmology, Mohammad Zayed and colleagues published a review of 93 articles that showed that diabetic retinopathy negatively affects vision-related quality of life. More severe diabetic retinopathy is associated with worse quality of life. While it may seem obvious that having worse disease affecting one’s eyes decreases quality of…