Archive for June 2025

In the February 2025 edition of the Journal Cornea, Dr. Tae Eun Lee and colleagues published a study regarding Herpes Simplex virus. The study included over 8 million people. Herpes Simplex virus can cause a recurrent disease of the cornea. The study authors found that those who received Covid-19 vaccination had a higher chance of…

I sometimes have to talk to my patients about corneal transplants. I explain that this is, indeed, a literal transplant, in which someone else’s cornea gets placed in their eye. Where do the corneas come from? They come from donors! The processing of the tissue is done by eye banks, which recover, store, and distribute…

In the January 2025 issue of the journal Ophthalmology, Dr. Tiarnan Keenan and colleagues published a study about vitamin use in macular degeneration. Over the last couple of years, there has been a lot of interest in medications used to decrease geographic atrophy progression. Geographic atrophy is a manifestation of macular degeneration, and there are…

In the January 2025 issue of the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Dr. Rhaissa Menelau and colleagues published an article about deposits on hydrophilic acrylic lens implants. When we perform cataract surgery, we remove the cataract, which is the natural lens of the eye, and replace it with a lens implant. Those implants, as…