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…

It is a common experience, one that many of us are familiar with–you step out on a cold day, and you can’t see through your glasses anymore. The key element that causes the fogging is the temperature change. With the rapid temperature change, condensation forms on the lenses. Looking through the condensation is literally looking…

Curcumin is a biologically active ingredient in turmeric, and is thus a common part of the South Asian diet. In the December 2024 issue of JAMA Ophthalmology, Dr. Amer Alsoudi and colleagues published a study about people taking curcuma-based nutritional supplements and macular degeneration. In this study, patients taking curcuma-based nutritional supplements were found to…

In the December 2024 edition of the journal Ophthalmology, Dr. Bita Momenaei and colleagues published a study regarding retinal detachment and retinal tears after cataract surgery. They specifically focused on patients who had previously had treated retinal tears. About 5% of the eyes had another retinal tear within 1 year after cataract surgery. While retinal…

In the December 2024 edition of the Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery, Dr. Scott Massa and colleagues published a study about dropless cataract surgery prophylaxis. This is what my practice currently offers to many of our patients; an attempt to place medications on the eye at the time of surgery to decrease the need…

There are a lot of articles lately that I have seen regarding artificial intelligence. Perhaps this is a reflection of the times; our world is inundated with deep learning models. I hope that we, as a field, are able to use these different models to take better care of our patients. As I note in…

In the December 2024 edition of the Cornea Journal, Dr. Antonia Vieira and colleagues published a study about dry eye and vitamin D. They reference the fact that there is an association between Vitamin D deficiency and dry eye disease. There is some evidence that replenishing vitamin D in patients with deficiency can improve the…