June 2017 Articles

ASCRS NEWS

  1. Inaugural Steinert Refractive Lecture: Posterior cornea is missing key in refractive outcomes

ASCRS • ASOA UPDATE

  1. ASOAnalytics: New database tool offers “real-time, data-driven” solutions
  2. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch visits practice of ASCRS past president, ASOA vice president
  3. Remembering founding Board member and third ASCRS president Robert Drews, MD
  4. Spotlight on Berhan Solomon Demissie, MD
  5. In the Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery June 2017

COVER FEATURE

  1. New technologies in corneal refractive surgery poised to spur growth
  2. Treating irregular corneas
  3. Looking at LASIK’s advances
  4. How to start performing refractive surgery
  5. Monthly Pulse Rebirth of laser vision correction Poll size: 130

CATARACT

  1. One way to match IOLs to patients’ visual goals
  2. Cutting-edge technologies and better outcomes
  3. Different lens, different wrinkles

CORNEA

  1. Crosslinking: What the young ophthalmologist needs to know
  2. Researchers discover three new genetic risk factors for Fuchs’ dystrophy

GLAUCOMA

  1. Cutting IOP in half
  2. Evolution of tonometry: Are we overdue for a new clinical standard?

IN OTHER NEWS

  1. Traveling the world for both music and ophthalmology

MEETING REPORTER

  1. Reporting from OIS@ASCRS
  2. Reporting from the 2017 ASCRS•ASOA Symposium & Congress

NEWS & OPINION

  1. LASIK is alive and well
  2. A trophy for everyone
  3. Drug approved to fight breast cancer shows potential in protecting photoreceptor cells
  4. When is a second LASIK surgery justified in hyperopic eyes?
  5. Calling attention to uveitis: The basics and the latest research
  6. Award-winning documentary film draws attention to SIGHT

OPHTHALMOLOGY BUSINESS

  1. Strengthening your mid-level managers for a stronger practice

REFRACTIVE

  1. Nonsurgical treatment of presbyopia
  2. LASIK patients benefit from plugs at the time of surgery
  3. High oxygen enhances epi-on PiXL efficacy
  4. SMILE expected to gain popularity as myopia treatment in the U.S.

RESIDENTS

  1. Toric lens alignment: A review of a digital image-guided system versus traditional manual marking
  2. A randomized controlled trial of an image-guided system versus manual marking in the alignment of toric intraocular lenses in cataract surgery

RETINA

  1. Children, teens not screened often enough for diabetic retinopathy

WORLD VIEW

  1. Rebirth of laser vision correction