Eye Care Professionals

10/22/2026

Excitement grows for Optometry’s Meeting® with students driving record-setting registration numbers https://www.aoa.org//news/inside-optometry/aoa-news/excitement-grows-for-optometrys-meeting-with-students-driving-record-setting-registration-numbers

10/21/2026

Donor Factors May Correlate With Cell Damage in Internationally Transported Corneas

Factors including donor age, race or ethnicity, and cause of death could be associated with damage risk in donated corneas transported outside of the United States.

10/20/2026

Surprising finding in the eye may explain how we see in low light https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-eye.html

A new Yale School of Medicine (YSM) study has uncovered surprising new details about how our eyes process what we see. When we look at something, our visual system breaks down different aspects of the scene—such as color, contrast, and motion—and processes those components separately. It's calle...

10/19/2026

Blepharoplasty With Excision of Additional Tissue Is More Involved, But May Improve Patient Satisfaction

Adding limited orbicularis muscle and fat excision to upper blepharoplasty can be safely considered in selected patients, particularly those prioritizing aesthetic satisfaction.

10/18/2026

How Optometry’s Fund for Disaster Relief can help your practice https://www.aoa.org//news/inside-optometry/aoa-news/how-optometrys-fund-for-disaster-relief-can-help-your-practice

10/17/2026

Light in the dark: The search for new treatments for hereditary blindness https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-dark-treatments-hereditary.html

One night, Tomás realized something was seriously wrong. He went for a stroll, along the same paths near his village that he had walked along countless times with his friends, their cheerful voices echoing in the still of the night.

10/16/2026

Weekly Journal Update — April 8, 2026

Faricimab extended treatment outcomes, detecting Alzheimer's disease with a retinal-imaging model, glaucoma adherence and glaucomatous damage, DMEK regrafting after failed endothelial keratoplasty, la

10/15/2026

Virus from seafood is linked to a persistent eye disease in humans https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-virus-seafood-linked-persistent-eye.html

A virus that typically infects marine animals, such as shrimp and fish, has jumped to humans and is causing chronic eye disease in some people, according to a study published in the journal Nature Microbiology. In recent years, the number of people in China with a condition called persistent ocular....

10/14/2026

Postsurgical Ptosis Recurrence Appears to Be Less Frequent in Cases of Aponeurotic Ptosis

Patients with aponeurotic ptosis, which is caused by stretching, attenuation, or dehiscence of the levator aponeurosis, may be less likely to see recurrence after surgical repair than patients with ot

10/13/2026

How blind people map their surroundings using sound https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-people.html

Some blind people use returning echoes from their own mouth clicks to perceive external surroundings, or echolocation. New from eNeuro, Haydee Garcia Lazaro and Santani Teng, from Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, explored how the human brain creates representations of external surroundings u...