Gianna Melillo

Audits and AI might help deal with the problem of woefully inaccurate provider directories supplied by insurers to their members.

The patient was in her 70s and began experiencing the floaters the day after undergoing treatment.

Less than 3% of cataract surgery patients received the sustained-released corticosteroids. The authors argue that the price of more than $500 is an unintentional consequence of rules that require relatively high prices to meet the thresholds for the cost of the news drugs to be passed through to the Medicare program.

The researchers estimate that optimizing vision could prevent up to 100,000 prevalent cases of dementia. They call for clinical trials to test the proposition that optimizing vision would have a preventive effect on dementia.

Medical specialties are beginning to look at the environmental impacts of their areas of medicine. A review published in Ophthalmology homed in on cataract surgery and steps that might be taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with one of the most commonly performed surgeries.

For digital cardiac rehabilitation interventions to succeed, gaps in development, implementation ought to be addressed, an American Heart Association science advisory finds. Among the suggestions: Revamping study design because the conventional randomized trial is too slow.

Idiopathic multifocal choroiditis is a rare condition that typically occurs in young women with myopia. A genome-wide association study conducted by Dutch researchers identified a genetic variant that is associated with the disease and implicates dysregulation of the complement system as a possible cause.

Results reported in JAMA Ophthalmology show that about 20% of those with diabetic retinopathy have a case that could threaten their vision.