All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Ophthalmology

We have seen little success in the use of intranasal antibiotics for fungal sinus disease. It is unclear if this will work. The issue is getting the drug in adequate amounts to the site of infection. As an aminoglcoside, the drug may not do well in a closed space infection like sinusitus despite...

I have not found nebulized antibiotic therapy to be of great success in patients with chronic sinusitis.  There are already a few pharmacies that have formulated an array of nebulized antibiotics and I have tried them in a few patients with no success.   

 In an array of articles and postings,we find everyday another use of statins. Should we make the drugs OTC and add them to our vitamins?

One company suing another in the eye industry is commonplace these days.  Fines are paid and life goes on.  Will this lawsuit affect the sales or market share of either of these companies now, or in the long-term?  Not significantly, on both accounts.

So Bausch and Lomb is involved in yet another recall.  At least Bausch and Lomb learned a lesson from the big MoisturLoc® mess.  Pulling the affected solution lots quickly and voluntarily was the smartest thing they could have done.  But I have to ask, 'Where is the quality...

For a company that has had its share of rejections and problems with the approval of a phakic IOL (ICL Visian)  that it tried to have enter the US market almost a decade ago, things are not improving much for Staar.  The company recently reported that despite its request over one year ago...

Mutifocal iols are currently used to try to correct distance and near vision.  While patients are often pleased by their improved near vision without glasses, many complain of poor optical quality for distance vision.  Due to great out of pocket costs and poor quality of vision under some...

Data mining is a career choice for a growing number of academic Ophthalmologists and Optometrists. Rightly so, since newer analyses of well conceived population data bases found in the Blue Mountain or the Framingham cohorts continue to provide valuable epidemiologic information.Burgeoning case loads...

The ESCRS (European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery) actively engages Ophthalmologists who are seeking newer and better surgical procedures. This group self selects for innovative, aggressive, busy and entrepreneurial surgeons, as does its American counterpart, the ASCRS.Intralase technology...

The authors show less than stellar results following attempted enhancements of undercorrected or regressed myopic lasik. There are several alternatives to enhancement, including a repeat Lasik at a more shallow depth, lifting the previous Lasik flap and repeating the treatment, or a surface procedure.Surface...