The Funds Distribution Committee (FDC) has announced that four new projects have been granted funding. These include: Melanie Schmitt, MD: $1,498 to publish “Impact of Amblyopia,” an abstract Donna Neumann, PhD, and Colleen McDowell, PhD: $18,450 …
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Lighthouse Guild Offers Tele-health Support Groups
Lighthouse Guild, a major provider of mental health and healthcare service to people with low vision and blindness, now offers tele-health support groups. During the first week of the COVID-19 pandemic, when it became clear …
AEVR Announces Virtual World Glaucoma Week Congressional Briefing
The Alliance for Eye and Vision Research’s (AEVR) new Research Saving Sight, Restoring Vision Initiative announced a World Glaucoma Week 2021 Congressional Briefing entitled Glaucoma: Clinical Practice and Research to Optimize Patient Outcomes to be …
Association of Macular Thickness With Age and Age-Related Macular Degeneration in the Carotenoids in Age-Related Eye Disease Study 2 (CAREDS2), An Ancillary Study of the Women’s Health Initiative.
PubMed ID: 34003924 Author(s): Etheridge T, Liu Z, Nalbandyan M, Cleland S, Blodi BA, Mares JA, Bailey S, Wallace R, Gehrs K, Tinker LF, Gangnon R, Domalpally A; CAREDS2 Research Study Group. Association of macular …
SCORE2 Report 13: Intraretinal Hemorrhage Changes in Eyes With Central or Hemiretinal Vein Occlusion Managed With Aflibercept, Bevacizumab or Observation. Secondary Analysis of the SCORE and SCORE2 Clinical Trials.
PubMed ID: 32828880 Author(s): Hendrick A, VanVeldhuisen PC, Scott IU, King J, Blodi BA, Ip MS, Khurana RN, Oden NL; SCORE2 Investigator Group. SCORE2 Report 13: Intraretinal hemorrhage changes in eyes with central or hemiretinal …
Plasma Amyloid Beta Concentrations in Aged and Cognitively Impaired Pet Dogs.
PubMed ID: 32970242 Author(s): Panek WK, Murdoch DM, Gruen ME, Mowat FM, Marek RD, Olby NJ. Plasma amyloid beta concentrations in aged and cognitively impaired pet dogs. Mol Neurobiol. 2021 Feb;58(2):483-489. doi: 10.1007/s12035-020-02140-9. Epub 2020 …
Progression of Geographic Atrophy with Subsequent Exudative Neovascular Disease in Age-Related Macular Degeneration: AREDS2 Report 24.
PubMed ID: 33075546 Author(s): Hwang CK, Agrón E, Domalpally A, Cukras CA, Wong WT, Chew EY, Keenan TDL; AREDS2 Research Group. Progression of Geographic Atrophy with Subsequent Exudative Neovascular Disease in age-related Macular Degeneration: AREDS2 …
Incidence of Hearing Impairment and Changes in Pure-Tone Average Across Generations.
PubMed ID: 33211071 Author(s): Paulsen AJ, Fischer ME, Pinto A, Merten N, Dillard LK, Schubert CR, Huang GH, Klein BEK, Tweed TS, Cruickshanks KJ. Incidence of hearing impairment and changes in pure-tone average across generations. …
Author Response: Systematic Imaging Experiments of Accommodation Do Not Require Image Registration.
PubMed ID: 33591361 Author(s): Croft MA, Kaufman PL. Author response: Systematic imaging experiments of accommodation do not require image registration. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2021 Feb 1;62(2):18. doi: 10.1167/iovs.62.2.18. PMID 33591361 Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology & …