A recently approved shingles vaccine seems to be more effective in preventing the virus. Drs Rapuano and Meghpara from Wills Eye Hospital discuss its role for patients.
Dr Christopher Rapuano sorts through the updated recommendations for dry eye provided in the recently published report of the Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society International Dry Eye Workshop II.
Join in as two ophthalmologists have an in-depth discussion about vancomycin-associated hemorrhagic occlusive retinal vasculitis, including its diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis.
Dr Jeffrey Weber assesses the benefit of immunotherapies in two rare subtypes of melanoma and finds that rates of survival and duration of response trail well behind those associated with cutaneous melanoma.
The majority of infants born with congenital CMV infection are asymptomatic and thus missed with current screening strategies. What are the pros and cons of universal screening?
Eric Topol interviews Bernard Tyson about his remarkable career at Kaiser Permanente and about how technology will never substitute for trust and human touch in the patient-physician relationship.
Eric Topol talks with pioneering geneticist George Church about his many research interests, including his central role in developing CRISPR, a gene-editing tool that stands to revolutionize medicine.
Zubin Damania, an internist and rapper/singer who performs musical parodies under the name ZDoggMD, talks with Eric Topol about his love for Weird Al and his novel medical practice, Turntable Health.
Eric Topol speaks with author Siddhartha Mukherjee about his latest book, The Laws of Medicine, and how uncertainty, imperfections, priors, outliers, and biases affect these laws.
A collaboration between Wills Eye Hospital and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention helps underserved, high-risk patients to be treated for glaucoma through a community outreach program.
Dr Roger Steinert thinks it's inexplicable that we're a decade behind Europe because of the law's restrictions on the FDA approval process for new devices. A change is needed.
Dr Roger Steinert relates the salient points from the refractive surgery subspecialty day at this year's American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting, where judge and jury debated the latest technology.