Browse online exclusive articles on EyeWorld.org. EyeWorld is the award-winning member publication of ASCRS. The magazine provides news and updates from the Society as well as clinical features in the areas of cataract, refractive, cornea, glaucoma, and practice management. It publishes quarterly with editorial direction from its medical editorial board and staff.
While many ophthalmologists have instituted protocols to help reduce the risk and spread of SARS-CoV-2, Terrence P. O’Brien, MD, has added another adjunctive preventative measure to his regimen: a dilute povidone-iodine drop for his patients and himself after in vitro studies confirmed virucidal effect against SARS-CoV-2.
Predatory open access publishing is a model where “editors” reach out to researchers who have published work available online and offer them the opportunity to submit an article for their journal that often has little to do with the writer’s field or is vague enough to almost make sense. The catch is the publication fee.