Eye Care

Pharmacists should ascertain whether self-treatment is appropriate and suggest medical care if it isn’t.

Study suggests gene therapy may effectively treat young children who were born colorblind via pathways connecting the brain and the retina.

Latanoprost (Xalatan) Sterile Ophthalmic Solution is indicated for the reduction of elevated intraocular pressure in patients with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension.

Study is the first to use an artificial intelligence algorithm to break down visual field loss in new-onset glaucoma cases among population groups in the United States.

Brinzolamide/brimonidine tartrate (Simbrinza) is indicated for the reduction of elevated intraocular pressure in patients with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension.

Ranibizumab-eqrn is the only biosimilar approved for all 5 Lucentis indications.

Thera Tears helps with the symptoms of dry eyes.

Findings suggest potential screening and disease detection opportunities.

Treatment with faricimab-svoa (Vabysmo) may improve vision with fewer injections and treatment sessions for patients with wet age-related macular degeneration compared to other treatments.

If approved, the 16-week dosing regimen could offer certain individuals a potentially longer treatment interval and physicians with greater flexibility to individualize treatment.

Olopatadine stabilizes ocular mast cells to prevent histamine release by allergens.

Acuvail ophthalmic solution is a nonsteroidal, anti-inflammatory indicated for the treatment of pain and inflammation following cataract surgery.

In clinical trials, Xiidra was found to improve eye dryness scores significantly compared with placebo.

Aklilu Tedla, vice president of strategy and business development at Cardinal Health, discusses the future of pharmacies as more cell and gene therapy products become available to patients.

Pilocarpine (Vuity) is a cholinergic muscarinic receptor agonist indicated for the treatment of presbyopia in adults.

PinkEye Relief are sterile eye drops that temporarily relieve burning, swelling, and crusting.

Brimonidine tartrate/timolol maleate ophthalmic solution 0.2%/0.5% is a generic equivalent to AbbVie’s Combigan, which reduces eye pressure in patients with ocular hypertension.

The eye drop treats age-related blurry near vision in adults and is FDA-approved for once-daily administration.

The FDA has approved pilocarpine hydrochloride ophthalmic solution 1.25% (Vuity, Allergan, an AbbVie company) to treat presbyopia in adults.1

FDA approves the EVO/EVO+ Visian Implantable Collamer Lens for the correction of myopia and myopia with astigmatism.

Systane is a lubricating eye drop indicated for dry eye relief.

Dorzolamide/timolol (Cosopt) is indicated for patients with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension who are insufficiently responsive to beta-blockers.

The majority of study participants demonstrated improvement of infraorbital hollows through 1 year.

PreserVision is a supplement that may help lower the risk of progression of moderate-to-advanced age-related macular degeneration.

Faricimab-svoa targets and inhibits 2 disease pathways that drive diabetic macular edema and neovascular or “wet” age-related macular degeneration.