Shared insight on the importance of patient adherence in glaucoma management, and how this is influenced by therapeutic regimens. Neil Minkoff, MD: What are the things that you folks see in your ...

Communicating to patients that they need to come to their annual checkup is important for eye doctors to convey to help treat their patients, says Ariana Levin, MD. Glaucoma is a disease that affects ...

Patients in rural communities were also more likely than patients in urban areas to experience loss to follow-up. These findings underscore the association between patient wealth and glaucoma care and ...

Poor adherence to medical therapy is a major challenge to the effective treatment of chronic diseases including glaucoma. Potential factors influencing adherence include treatment complexity and ...

Patients with endogenous Cushing syndrome (CS) have a higher risk for glaucoma than the general population, with the clinical manifestations appearing at a younger age. The risk persisted regardless ...

Markers in the blood that predict whether glaucoma patients are at higher risk of continued loss of vision following conventional treatment have been identified by researchers. Markers in the blood ...

A Boston company treated its first patient with a therapy intended to allow aging optic nerve cells to behave as though they ...

Glaukos Corporation (NYSE: GKOS), an ophthalmic pharmaceutical and medical technology company focused on novel therapies for the treatment of glaucoma, corneal disorders, and retinal diseases, today ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . I was honored to give the Stephen A. Obstbaum, MD, Lecture at the 2022 American Society of Cataract and ...

To compare the rate of glaucoma-related diagnoses in patients with exudative or non-exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Patients above the age of 55 with a diagnosis of AMD were ...

Conventional thinking among ophthalmologists has been to tell their patients with glaucoma to sleep with their head elevated, but doing so may contribute to the progression of the eye disorder and, in ...

Glaucoma is the second-leading cause of blindness worldwide, and is currently incurable.