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Key Lessons Learned from the Boston Marathon Bombings 5 Promote use of eye shields on the scene for patients with potential eye injuries Maintain reliable communications Deepen the ophthalmology call algorithm Integrate ophthalmology services into trauma teams and maintain a voice in hospital-wide...

In the 1990s, the 2014 Champalimaud Award Laureates worked in parallel and in collaboration to identify vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) as the major trigger for angiogenesis in the eye. In 1993, they showed that the human retina synthesizes VEGF, and subsequently demonstrated that VEGF...

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...

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...

In this issue of e ye Insights, we present three unique scenarios of patients who are considering refractive surgery, and the accompanying advice of our expert laser vision specialists. We also include digital resources for you and your patients, including a patient education handout, physician...

The Problem Vision correction procedures may reduce or eliminate the need for glasses or corrective lenses—but for some people, the surgery feels too risky. The Solution Ophthalmologists need to explain the expected advantages, disadvantages, outcomes, risks, and benefits of laser vision correction...

Refractive Surgeons at Mass. Eye and Ear Boston 243 Charles Street Find a surgeon Email617-573-3582 or617-573-3234 Waltham 1601 Trapelo Road Find a surgeon Email781-890-1023 Longwood 800 Huntington Avenue Find a surgeon Email617-936-615 East Bridgewater 400 N. Bedford Street Find a surgeon Email 617...

The Problem You are doing all you can do, surgically and medically, for your patients with vision impairment, but they continue to report difficulty with visual tasks or have to abandon activities they enjoy. The Solution Vision rehabilitation is the next step in the continuum of ophthalmic care...

Meet the Experts Janey Wiggs, MD, PhD Associate Director of the Ocular Genomics Institute at Mass. Eye and Ear Paul Austin Chandler Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School Dr. Wiggs is a board-certified medical geneticist specializing in the genetics of glaucoma with particular interest...