Ophthalmology

Cumming Ophthalmic Research and Development has filed an application for premarket approval with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a lens to help treat cataracts. 

Atlanta-based ophthalmology management services organization EyeSouth Partners made several moves in 2022, including its acquisition by Olympus Partners and multiple affiliations.

The FDA has issued new draft guidance warning patients about the risks associated with LASIK surgery, according to a Dec. 7 report from the The New York Times. 

The University of California Davis Health has opened a 78,500-square-foot eye care center in Sacramento, Calif., as part of an expansion project to its existing ASC. 

A branch of the Lord Baltimore Lions Club has made a donation to the Lions Vision Research Center and The Johns Hopkins' Wilmer Eye Institute, both in Baltimore, the Cape Gazette reported Dec. 3. 

Stillwater, Minn.-based Associated Eye Care will move to Hudson (Wis.) Medical Center in a three-story building with other businesses, the Star Observer reported Dec. 2. 

New York-based ophthalmology platform SightMD has added Lina Abu-Saab, OD, to its team of vision experts. 

The following is all the ophthalmology news Becker's has covered in the last month:

Terry Friedman, OD, of Kendall, Fla., has been ordered to pay $7,882 by the state's board of optometry after a patient he treated went blind, the Miami Herald reported Nov. 28. 

Becker's has reported on $25 million donated to ophthalmology research since the beginning of October. Here are two important ophthalmology donations: