Tag: age-related macular degeneration
Breaking Ground in Macular Degeneration Treatment
Julie Poteet, OD, MS, CNS, FONS, is passionate about macular degeneration care and is always searching for new ways to preserve sight. Now, she...
With Geographic Atrophy Treatment Options Available, Primary Care ODs Play Important...
If there’s one compelling reason why primary care optometrists should be looking for signs of geographic atrophy, it’s this: “We see 88 million comprehensive...
ODs Should Be Proactive in Identifying Patients at Risk for AMD
A patient’s age-related macular degeneration (AMD) at any stage should rise to a high level of importance for optometrists. Imaging is important to feel...
Having the Difficult Discussion With Patients on Geographic Atrophy
As one of the ODs at Ohio’s Cincinnati Eye Institute, Mary Beth Yackey, OD, often sees patients with progressing ocular diseases. Patients who are...
Iveric Bio Receives U.S. FDA Approval for IZERVAY™ (avacincaptad pegol intravitreal...
– IZERVAY is the only approved GA treatment with a statistically significant reduction in the rate of GA progression at the 12-month primary endpoint across...
Prevention Starts With Education and Recommendations for Specific Supplements
When Stephanie Mastores, OD, decided to open her own practice, Blink Eye Care Phoenix, in Phoenix, Arizona, in October 2021, she did so because...
How to Communicate and Support Patients Who Have Early AMD
By Amy Hellem, MLA
AMD diagnoses used to be devastating to both doctor and patient because detection prior to vision loss was the exception, rather...
National Eye Institute Data Shows AREDS2 Nutrient Formula Reduces AMD Risk
Bausch + Lomb announced new data from the National Eye Institute (NEI) 10-Year Follow-on Study Results of the Age-Related Eye Disease Study 2 (AREDS2),...
Welcome Back: Managing AMD After a Lapse in Care From COVID
Amanda Legge, OD, of Wyomissing Optometric Center in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, is grateful that her practice was an early adopter of dark adaptation technology nearly...
