Clinical Briefing

This section will bring you a range of clinical briefings to stimulate your interest. If you would like to contribute, get in touch.

Briefings

Corneal and Limbus Insult treated by stem cells: It has been reported recently on www.singualarityhub.com  that Italian researchers have demonstrated the long term effectiveness of using stem cells to cure corneal blindness

MDS Presentation

Cathy Yelf is the Head of External Relations at the Macular Disease Society (MDS) and presented at the Edinburgh AGM meeting to a large and interested audience. You can read the full details by clicking on the link above.

Comparison of Night Driving Performance after Wavefront-Guided and Conventional LASIK for Moderate Myopia

Steve C. Schallhorn, MD, David J. Tanzer, MD, Sandor E. Kaupp, MS, Mitch Brown, OD,
Stephanie E. Malady, BS

Purpose: To compare preoperative and postoperative changes in simulated night driving performance after wavefront-guided (wLASIK) and conventional LASIK (cLASIK) for the treatment of moderate myopia.

Thanks go to Dr. Steve Schallhorn at Optical Express for his permission to publish a recent article from Ophthalmology.

The research reported in the journal is of a study I conducted which clearly demonstrates the advantage of both a wavefront guided procedure (CustomVUe) and a femtosecond (Intralase) flap creation, reports Steve Schallhorn.

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Screening for Dyslexia and early learning problems 

An interview with Kate McMahon inventor of “Go with the Gobbies”. She is an Optometrist who has developed a holistic approach to training and helping those with prior learning problems, dyslexia, dyspraxia and dyscalculia and visual stress, none of which are a factor of intelligence, race, social development or age.

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