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2014 Antonio Champalimaud Vision Award

2014 António Champalimaud Laureates: Joan W. Miller, MD, FARVO, Evangelos S. Gragoudas, MD, Patricia A. D’Amore, PhD, MBA, FARVO, Lloyd Paul Aiello, MD, PhD, George L. King, MD, Anthony P. Adamis, MD; and Napoleone Ferrara, MD Dear Colleagues, In September, several Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical...

The Boston KPro: Revolutionized the Field of Corneal Transplantation

Dear Colleagues, Nearly five million people in the world are blind from corneal disease in both eyes, and millions more have corneal blindness in one eye. For some people, conventional corneal transplantation is a successful and life-changing intervention. Many others, however, suffer multiple...

Study Shows Veterans May Be at Risk for Aging at Accelerated Rate

Men and women who serve their country come home every day only to suffer from mild traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. And now there is increasing evidence that there are even more-negative consequences to their time in the military: early signs of conditions that are...

Study: High rate of emotions in vets with mild brain injury

A survey of several hundred veterans with mild brain injury, most coming in combat and from exposure to blast, shows that 60% reported suffering a neurological condition that involves exaggerated emotional responses such as crying or laughing. Read more here.

TRACTS IS NOW A NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER!

As the result of your effort and commitment to helping your fellow Veterans and us achieve our mission to help you, the VA has decided to open a satellite TRACTS site in Houston Texas. This is fantastic news for a couple of reasons. It has always been our vision that TRACTS would develop into a...

Comparing Diabetic Macular Edema Treatments

Results of the DRCR.net Protocol T Study In the first clinical trial directly comparing three drugs most commonly used to treat diabetic macular edema, researchers found all were effective in improving vision and preventing vision loss. However, one drug, aflibercept, provided greater improvement...

ARVO 2015

In the 2015 Annual Meeting of the the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), HMS Ophthalmology faculty and trainees will present 255 abstracts, including 35 papers, 188 posters, 3 award lectures, 4 educational courses, 6 mini symposia, 8 special interest groups, 2 cross...