Cataract and Refractive Surgery News

• Statins Tied to Lower ICH Risk Regardless of Bleed Location A large new case-control study has shown a reduced risk of both lobar and nonlobar intracerebral hemorrhage with statin use, providing reassurance on statin safety.
  Medscape Medical News, December 09, 2022
• A Single Pediatric CT Scan Raises Brain Cancer Risk For every 10,000 children who received one head CT examination, about one radiation-induced brain cancer is expected during the 5–15 years following the CT examination, researchers warn.
  Medscape Medical News, December 08, 2022
• Patch Testing Can Help Diagnose Allergies From Eye Drops Allergic contact dermatitis from ophthalmic medications may not be suspected or may be misinterpreted as other skin or eye conditions.
  Medscape Medical News, December 08, 2022
• Pediatric Emergencies Associated With Unnecessary Testing: AAP The American Academy of Pediatrics released a statement with recommendations for avoiding unnecessary diagnostics when children are seen in emergency settings.
  Medscape Medical News, December 02, 2022
• Racial Disparities in Lung Cancer Start With Research Improving lung cancer outcomes in Black communities will take more than lowering the screening age, experts say.
  Kaiser Health News, November 30, 2022
• Can AI Drive More Diversity in Drug Development? The technology could also assist doctors with data insights to make diagnosis and treatment more precise.
  WebMD Health News, November 30, 2022
• Quantum Computing: Medicine's Next Great Leap Quantum computing is a completely new type of computing that has already begun to advance everything from drug development and disease identification to the security of electronic records.
  WebMD Health News, November 22, 2022
• Schools Teaching Mindfulness, Meditation to Help Lower Stress In a calm voice, the teacher says, "For 30 seconds we are going to close our eyes." She tells them to just breathe in, breathe out. Nothing else.
  WebMD Health News, November 21, 2022
• Canadian Caregivers Feel Overburdened and Undervalued A new white paper documents caregiver distress, deteriorating health, poor outcomes in care recipients, and a lack of federal and provincial support.
  Medscape Medical News, November 21, 2022
• Buzz Kill: Lung Damage Looks Worse in Pot Smokers Contrary to earlier assumptions, cannabis smokers had more extensive lung damage than tobacco users, a study found.
  Medscape Medical News, November 15, 2022
• ACR 2022 Clinical Signs Differ Between Kids and Adults With Vasculitis Children with antibody-associated vasculitis, for instance, have a higher likelihood of upper airway disease and potentially severe lower airway disease.
  Medscape Medical News, November 12, 2022
• Brain Imaging Validates Cognitive Problems After Lyme Disease Many patients who have had Lyme disease struggle with cognitive challenges, even after treatment. This new imaging study shows changes in white matter that might explain these symptoms.
  Medscape Medical News, November 08, 2022
• Cash for Colonoscopies: Lowering Health Costs Through Incentives Colorado State employees could receive checks ranging from $50 to thousands of dollars if they choose the right provider.
  Kaiser Health News, November 04, 2022
• ECTRIMS 2022 'Tantalizing' New Data for Ibudilast in Multiple Sclerosis New data from SPRINT-MS show that the drug has beneficial effects on slowly evolving lesions in people with multiple sclerosis, perhaps by abrogating chronic active lesions.
  Medscape Medical News, November 04, 2022
• How the Pandemic Changed You (and You May Not Even Know It) Researchers from Florida State University and other institutions compared prepandemic data with later data and found declines in four traits: extroversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.
  WebMD Health News, October 27, 2022
• Doctor Removes 23 Contact Lenses From Woman's Eye In a video posted on Instagram, ophthalmologist Katerina Kurteeva, MD, is shown removing contact lenses from a woman's eye.
  WebMD Health News, October 19, 2022
• AAO 2022 Combined Glaucoma + Cataract Surgery as Effective as Separate A national registry study of 153,000 eyes found that glaucoma surgery done during cataract procedures had lower failure rates than doing two separate operations.
  Medscape Medical News, October 04, 2022
• Reusable Contact Lenses Increase Risk of Rare Eye Infection: Study People who wear reusable contact lenses are about four times more likely to get the sight-threatening eye infection acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) than people who wear daily disposable lenses. RELATED ARTICLES:
  WebMD Health News, September 26, 2022
• Private Equity Sees the Billions in Eye Care "The private equity model is a model that focuses on profitability, and we know they are not selecting practices randomly."
  Kaiser Health News, September 19, 2022
• Physicians' Medicare Pay Keeps Dwindling ― How Bad Will It Get? More cuts to Medicare payments; less income for physicians.... What is the future expected to bring?
  Medscape Medical News, August 19, 2022