OCLI Blog – Cutting Edge

May 20, 2009
May 20, 2009

The Flomax-Cataract Controversary, Continued

In this week’s issue of JAMA is an article titled:  Association Between Tamsulosin and Serious Ophthalmic Adverse Events in Older Men Following Cataract Surgery. The study looked at a group of 96,128 men, ages 66 and older, who had cataract surgery. Among those who had taken Flomax in the two weeks before surgery, 7.5 percent…

April 4, 2009
April 4, 2009

Poster Presented at ASCRS Annual Meeting

I just arrived in beautiful San Francisco tonight to attend the 2009 ASCRS Symposium & Congress.  In my opinion this is the best ophthalmology meeting of the year.  Many papers will be presented in my two areas of interest, refractive surgery and cataract surgery.  New equipment is on display as well. H. Jane Kim, a…

March 12, 2009
March 12, 2009

FDA Approves Aspheric AcrySof IQ toric IOL

Alcon Labs has recently announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Alcon’s Aspheric AcrySof IQ Toric IOL for use in cataract surgery patients with astigmatism. The new AcrySof Toric Lens has an enhanced Aspheric Optic for improved image quality, increased contrast sensitivity and quality distance vision without spectacle correction. The first AcrySof®

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