Researchers at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, Switzerland (a consortium led by the ProgStar Study Group) have reported that autofluorescence imaging in… Read More »A progression of Stargardt disease can assess autofluorescence over a 12-month clinical research study.
Researchers at the Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, has published a systematic review to assess the key design characteristics of geographic atrophy (GA)… Read More »A systematic review of registered trials in ClinicalTrials.gov shows the characteristics of geographic atrophy treatment trials
A combination of two European population-based prospective cohorts has carried out the investigation on the adherence to a Mediterranean diet (“MeDi”). The adherence to the… Read More »A prospective study of 5,000 participants indicates that a Mediterranean diet has a 41% reduced risk of incidence of advanced AMD
A systematic review and meta-analysis, published by British Medical Journal Open (2019), has included 19 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to evaluate the comparative effectiveness and… Read More »Clinical research for systematic reviews and meta-analysis focuses on cn-AMD, DMO, RVO-MO and m-CNV
A Cochrane comprehensive study has reported that one in 3 systematic reviews addressing interventions for corneal diseases are unreliable. As a result, the systematic review… Read More »A Cochrane systematic review for corneal-disease treatments suggest that ~34% of studies are unreliable
A Cochrane comprehensive study has confirmed that there is a low, or very low, certainty evidence indicating that “there may be little or no difference… Read More »A Cochrane systematic review identifies pars plana vitrectomy vs scleral buckling repair for rhegmatogenous retinal detachments
A study by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has confirmed that 30 ophthalmic products have been authorised via the Centralised Procedure between 1999 and 2017.… Read More »EMA reports that 30 ophthalmic medicinal products have been authorised between 1999 and 2017
A new automated tool, the “EU TrialsTracker”, has been launched by several academic researchers working at the Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab, University of Oxford, UK. … Read More »The EU Clinical Trials Register (EUCTR) indicates that the compliance with the EU rules “have been poor overall”
Research scientists in Switzerland and the United States have published a new study to apply “deep learning” (DL) algorithms using colour fundus photographs (CFPs) to… Read More »Algorithm for a “deep learning” process can predict OCT measurements from colour fundus photographs
The 2019 EURETINA Clinical Research Awards have initiated a new funding research Call to support and encourage independent clinical research in the field of retinal… Read More »***EURETINA launch the Retinal Medicine Clinical Research Funding Call***