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Drugs like semaglutide are able to treat both diabetes and obesity.

Dr. Michael Ziffra talked during Pri-Med West 2022 about some of the challenges and gaps in research needed for better bipolar disorder care.

Expert nephrologist Dr. Rajeev Raghavan elaborates on the American Diabetes Association guideline updates for patients with diabetic kidney disease during Pri-Med West.

Dr. Rajeev Raghavan talks about the role of SGLT2 inhibitors and GLP-1 receptor agonists as new therapeutics available to slow progression of chronic kidney disease.

Jennifer Green discussed weight management and obesity during the annual Pri-Med West conference.

Pri-Med West presenter Dr. Rajeev Raghavan highlights the key points of his nephrology talk and identifies trending topics in the field during an interview.

The pandemic has removed some of the barriers of medicine.

Phone communication may have decreased in recent years among doctors.

In the first episode of this new game show, a team of ARVO 2022 investigators work to invent an innovative clinical trial.

Many people struggled with anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Expert rheumatologist Dr. Peng Thim Fan explains that the effects of COVID-19 are still being examined.

From curative stem cell approaches to in-clinic subretinal injections, Arshad Khanani, MD, MA, navigates what the future drug class may entail.

There remains a need for more doctors that specialize in geriatrics.

An FDA decision could come as soon as this year. One expert stresses the need for improved screening, biomarker research, and patient communication beforehand.

Many patients, particularly older ones, are taking unnecessary medications.

Early-stage prevention of modifiable risk factors may contribute to the prevention of neurodegenerative changes and diabetic retinopathy.

Study author Arshad Khanani, MD, MA, discusses how the novel-targeting gene therapy candidate may uniquely benefit patients with treated retina disease.

Theodore Leng, MD, MS, discusses his team's IRIS registry findings suggesting a need for quantifying how vision-loss patients are impacted by functional or quality-of-life measures.

Data show half of all eyes with CRVO were still being treated at 36-months.

Treatment delay and steroid usage were both associated with worse improvements in long term BVA and CST in patients with RVO-related macular edema.

Veeral S. Sheth, MD, MBA, gives an update on his practice's adoption of the novel PDS in patients with AMD—and discusses other potential methods of anti-VEGF delivery.

These data further elucidate the relationship between mental health and diabetic retinopathy.

However, data show RVO patients with clinical findings associated with glaucoma risk are often not coded with suspected glaucoma.

A new assessment from ARVO 2022 showed methodology to predict one-year treatment response to treat-and-extend ranibizumab at 1 year.

The study agent was otherwise not associated with an increased number of intravitreal injections over a 12-month period.

Veeral S. Sheth, MD, MBA, discusses promising agents in development for geographic atrophy and other under-addressed ophthalmic diseases.

Patients with DR had an average interval between anti-VEGF injections of 70 days, compared to 54 days for RVO patients and 55 days for wetAMD patients.

One researcher suggests the supplement may serve as an add-on measurement against AMD progression in early-stage patients.

An ARVO 2022 study author discusses her team's research into omega-3 fatty acids for diseases including dry AMD.

The estimated median duration of ≥1 line gained was greater than 9 hours on both study day 1 and day 30 in patients with presbyopia treated with the study agent.