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Gene Therapies Make Progress Toward Goal of Restoring Sight
Gene therapies again generated buzz at the 2024 AAO meeting—as they have at recent meetings—but perhaps most exciting were reports of a treatment that could partially restore severe vision loss fro...
Zeiss Bolsters Launch of Micor 700 at AAO Meeting With US Surgeons Discussing Adoption
Carl Zeiss Meditec featured its Micor 700 at the 2024 meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology in Chicago, Illinois, with presentations that included booth talks by select US surgeons who h...
Ophthalmology Continues to Draw Investors, Eyecelerator Meeting Shows; Retina Stands Out
Ophthalmology remains an appealing investment, driven largely by procedural growth. While hundreds of companies are working toward technology enhancements and innovative therapies, ophthalmology pr...
AI Discussions Surge at Eye Meetings with Aim to Allay Fears, Seek Use Cases
The explosive growth of artificial intelligence has generated both fear and excitement among many in the ophthalmic industry. As technology progresses, so do the conversations at major meetings, wi...
Office-Based Surgery Garners Enthusiasm at 2024 AAO Meeting
Several sessions at the 2024 American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting highlighted the trend of office-based surgery (OBS) and the option of oral sedation among practitioners. The consensus among t...
AAO Puts FDA Deputy Director of Ophthalmology on the Hot Seat
William Boyd, MD, deputy director of ophthalmology at the US FDA’s Office of New Drugs, had a quick answer when asked to name the biggest unmet need in ophthalmology. “We need and want more therapi...
Are Drugs for GA in the ‘Trough of Disillusionment’?
The celebrations and excitement that accompanied the launch in 2023 of the first two drugs approved in the US for the treatment geographic atrophy (GA) gave way to a hangover and regrets at the 202...
Weighing the Ophthalmic Impact of Boom in GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Treatment
Recent studies indicate that up to 6 percent of the US population is currently taking a GLP-1 receptor agonist, a class of drugs prescribed to help manage blood glucose levels for diabetes and weig...
New Trifocal IOLs Expected to Help the US Resume PC-IOL Growth
Bausch + Lomb’s enVista Envy and J&J Vision’s Odyssey are two new trifocal IOLs that were shown at the 2024 AAO meeting in Chicago. They are expected to help reverse the decline in trifocal IOL sal...
AAO and Eyecelerator Sessions Showcase Latest in Glaucoma Lasers and Surgical Devices
New glaucoma lasers and surgical devices were shown at various venues during the 2024 AAO meeting, including Glaucoma Subspecialty Day and the Eyecelerator meeting. There was also an important upda...
Alcon Looks to Refine Retinal Surgery with Unifeye, Unipexy
Alcon launched at the 2024 AAO meeting two new retinal surgical devices—Unifeye for air-gas exchange and Unipexy for retinopexy. Each is a one-person, hand-held, single-use gas delivery device. The...
Cornea and Eye Banking Forum Looks at Ways to Expand the Donor Pool
Expanding the donor pool was once again top of mind at the 2024 Cornea and Eye Banking Forum, held Oct. 18 in conjunction with the AAO meeting in Chicago, Illinois. The forum, supported by the Eye ...
AAO and Eyenuk Collaborate on AI-Driven DR Screening for Underserved Patients
Eyenuk and the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) reported Oct. 16 that they had teamed up under the AAO’s EyeCare America program to provide eye disease screening for underserved communities ...
Eyenuk, AAO Collaborate to Offer AI-Driven DR Screening for Underserved Patients in Delaware
Eyenuk and the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) reported Oct. 16 that they had teamed up under the AAO’s EyeCare America program to provide eye disease screening for underserved communities ...
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AAO Glaucoma Day Session Evaluates Latest Devices Advancing or Sold Outside the US
US glaucoma specialists have over 20 surgical options to treat their patients, but even more devices are available or in the pipeline outside the US, and their developers could seek FDA approval. M...
Retina Specialists Face Complement Inhibition Therapy with Mixed Emotions
The use of complement inhibitors to slow the progression of geographic atrophy (GA) is shaping up as the fulcrum for changing how ophthalmologists deliver and get compensated for retina care. Two c...
Pros and Cons of Same-Day Cataract Surgery Debated During AAO Refractive Day
The advantages and disadvantages of immediate sequential bilateral cataract surgery (ISBCS) took center stage during a 2023 AAO Refractive Day session that tasked Rupert Menapace, MD (Austria), wit...
US Refractive Surgeons Grapple with Treatment Options for High Myopes
Surgeons attending the Refractive Subspecialty Day at the 2023 AAO meeting in San Francisco debated the ideal treatment options for patients with moderate to high myopia. Practices shared widely di...
2023 AAO Meeting Draws 15,661 to San Francisco
The 2023 meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology drew 15,661 in-person attendees Nov. 3-6 to Moscone Center in San Francisco, according to preliminary numbers released by the AAO. Another ...
Buzzworthy Topics at the 2023 AAO Meeting
Dry Eye: New products kept generating buzz around dry eye. Bausch + Lomb leaned into the promotion of Miebo, the new, first-in-class drug therapy that directly targets tear evaporation. Diagnostic ...
Eyecelerator at AAO Showcases Innovators and Awards $45 Thousand in Prize Money
Eyecelerator awarded a total of $45 thousand in prize money to winning pitch challengers at its fall meeting, after emerging companies got a chance to work with accomplished industry veterans to re...
RxSight Announces Controlled Launch of LAL+ with Extended EDOF Functionality
RxSight—already the fastest growing IOL company in the US—is conducting a controlled launch of an additional version of the Light Adjustable Lens (LAL), referred to as the LAL+. Stephen Slade, MD, ...
Surgeons Compare Trifocal and EDOF IOLs During AAO Refractive Day
Trifocal IOLs went head-to-head with extended depth of focus lenses during the 2023 AAO Refractive Day program as Damien Gatinel, MD, PhD (France), advocated for trifocal models and Douglas Koch, M...
UCSF Ophthalmology Showcase Sends Message to Industry That It’s ‘Open for Business’
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), held its Ophthalmology Showcase on Nov. 3 to highlight both the school’s history of ophthalmic innovation and its role in future advancements. Th...
US Ophthalmologists Emphasize Action as Industry Inches Toward Greener Practices
Sustainability sessions at the 2023 AAO meeting echoed the sentiment of the ESCRS and other ophthalmic meetings throughout the year. US ophthalmologists discussed how practices can implement protoc...
Diagnostic Leaders Showcase Devices, Collaborations at AAO Meeting
Notable diagnostic innovations showcased at the 2023 meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology were Topcon’s Tempo perimeter and Heidelberg Engineering’s Anterion anterior OCT platform. Also...
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