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Postsurgical visual acuity in patients with cataracts showed significant inequalities in low-income and middle-income countries, according to a study published in British Journal of Ophthalmology.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Susvimo was noninferior to monthly ranibizumab and provided comparable vision and controlled retinal thickness through 96 weeks, according to data from the Archway trial.At the Retina World Congress, Aleksandra Rachitskaya, MD, presented end-of-study results from the phase 3 trial, which explored the safety and efficacy of Susvimo (ranibizumab injection, Genentech)

Published results showed a novel irrigation solution had high efficacy against planktonic bacteria and bacterial biofilms in laboratory testing.“The minimum standard of care for irrigation in orthopedic surgical cases includes normal saline, but an increasing amount of literature in recent years has suggested that different solutions or additives may be needed to prevent [periprosthetic

Nivolumab plus ipilimumab failed to extend OS compared with standard first-line chemotherapy for patients with unresctable or metastatic urothelial carcinoma whose tumor cells expressed PD-L1 at 1% or greater.An independent data monitoring committee recommended the randomized phase 3 CheckMate -901 trial continue to allow for assessment of other primary and secondary endpoints.

Participation in cardiac rehabilitation following surgical or transcatheter aortic valve replacement varies greatly from hospital to hospital, although researchers observed a correlation between participation and treatment strategy.In a presentation at the American Heart Association Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions, researchers showed that participation in cardiac

Pacira BioSciences Inc. reported increased total revenue and net product sales in its first-quarter 2022 financial results, according to a press release.The company reported a net income of $6.8 million and a total revenue of $158 million, an increase of 33% from the prior year period. Net product sales were $129.2 million for Exparel, $23.6 million for Zilretta and $3 million for Iovera,

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Proper positioning directly after surgery is key to preventing displacement when treating giant retinal tears, according to a speaker here.At the Retina World Congress, Niels Crama, MD, FEBO, said that air is his first choice of tamponade but that he sometimes uses SF6 20% or silicone oil 5700 cs. Slippage can be avoided by performing position-guided fluid-air

Philip D. Greenberg, MD, FAACR, has been elected American Association for Cancer Research president-elect for 2022-2023.He will become the association’s president at the AACR Annual Meeting in April 2023.

Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc. announced its first-quarter 2022 financial results, highlighted by increased net sales and the completion of the spinoff of ZimVie, according to a press release.The company reported a first-quarter net sales of $1.663 billion, an increase of 3.9% from the prior year period. The company also reported net earnings of $73 million from continuing operations for the first

Myriad symptoms and three different sets of classification criteria make Sjögren's syndrome a challenging diagnosis, according to a presenter at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology East.“Sjögren’s is an oft-neglected topic in rheumatology,” Fredrick B. Vivino, MD, MS, of Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, in Philadelphia, said in his presentation.