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Q&A: Stela Vujosevic shares why the staging system for diabetic eye conditions should be updated | Ophthalmology Times
Photo of Stela Vujosevic at the 2025 EURETINA meeting in Paris, France Stela Vujosevic, Md, PhD, FEBO, presented the need for a new staging system for diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema at the 2025 EURETINA meeting in Paris, France.…
ExSight Ventures invests in RevOpsis Therapeutics to further AMD treatment candidate | Ophthalmology Times
Image credit: AdobeStock/jirsak ExSight Ventures invested in RevOpsis Therapeutics, a company developing a novel class of multispecific antibody-based treatments designed to address significant unmet needs in ophthalmology. The company states that initial focus will be on the developing treatment for…
Investigators share positive results of DAVIO 2 trial at EURETINA 2025 | Ophthalmology Times
(Image credit: AdobeStock/THANANIT) EYP-1901, known as the vorolanib intravitreal insert, was highlighted at the EURETINA 2025 meeting, which was held in Paris, France. In 2 presentations, researchers shared the recent results from the DAVIO 2 clinical trial. What is EYP-1901?…
Q&A: Andreas Pollreisz explains when to use and not use widefield OCT-A imaging | Ophthalmology Times
Photo of Andreas Pollreisz at the 2025 EURETINA meeting in Paris, France Andreas Pollreisz, MD, a medical and surgical retina specialist from the Medical University of Vienna, discussed widefield OCT-A imaging at the 2025 EURETINA meeting in Paris, France. He…
David Almeida, MD, MBA, PhD, advances ophthalmic training with near real surgical specimens | Ophthalmology Times
David Almeida, MD, MBA, PhD, highlights near real surgical systems (NRSS), providing ophthalmologists with anatomically accurate models that replicate real surgical scenarios for training, research, and device development. (Image credit: AdobeStock/Iurii) A vitreoretinal surgeon and clinician-scientist with Erie Retina Research…
Sruthi Arepalli, MD, spotlights a deep-dive orbital tour of the eye
To learn more about or to register for EyeCon 2025, click here. Set against the backdrop of a scenic Florida coastline and a growing emphasis on cross-specialty collaboration in eye care, the Ophthalmology Times and Optometry Times EyeCon® 2025 conference is…
Effects of calcium channel blockers on visual field progression in glaucoma patients
(Image credit: AdobeStock) Researchers from UK and Italian institutions investigated the association between the effects of calcium channel blockers and the rate of visual field (VF) progression in patients with glaucoma. First author Giovanni Montesano, MD, PhD, and colleagues reported…
Study links AMD to higher cardiovascular disease mortality in high-risk patients
Australian researchers identified in a recent study an association between age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and cardiovascular disease (CVD): they showed that the presence of AMD predicted an increased risk of all-cause and CVD mortality in patients with a high risk…
Using OCT-A to explore biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases
Amir H. Kashani, MD, PhD, a professor of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins University, discussed a significant research publication in Alzheimers and Dementia that explored OCT-A angiography’s potential in studying neurodegenerative diseases. The study focused on developing a consensus method for…
UnitedHealthcare updates Glaucoma Surgical Treatments policy
(Image Credit: AdobeStock/gguy) UnitedHealthcare (UHC) has updated its Glaucoma Surgical Treatments policy to include goniotomy, trabeculotomy, canaloplasty (ab interno), combined canaloplasty (ab interno), and trabeculotomy procedures when deemed medically necessary for treating mild to moderate open-angle glaucoma (OAG) and cataracts…