It is time for us to address neuropathic eye pain.
We can think of neuropathic eye pain (NEP) as the more general, more inclusive version of neuropathic corneal pain (NCP) I recently mentioned in my column on three cool new things in the dry eye disease (DED) world Briefly, whereas NCP is intractable pain that a patient feels emanating from the cornea, NEP also includes other types of pain and painful sensations that not only seem to be coming from the cornea but any part of the eye. For the purposes of this column, I will use the more inclusive term NEP; I think it is important that we all

NASHVILLE — AI can advance personalized care in addiction medicine, but there are pitfalls physicians must be vigilant against, according to a speaker at OMED.
“This needs to be emphasized, bold faced and underlined: all AI needs human oversight,” R. Gregory Lande, DO, FACN, FAOAAM, a prior president and board member of the American Osteopathic Academy of Addiction Medicine and the editor of Journal of Addictive Diseases, said here. But he added that when used correctly, it could bolster addiction medicine.
Lande said addiction medicine physicians “can adopt tools and

New updates to an American Society for Radiation Oncology guideline for WHO grade 4 adult-type diffuse gliomas include information on tumor treating fields as well as classifying a patient’s frailty to determine fractionation.
The guideline task force also emphasized the importance of prospective research aimed at reducing disparities in the field.
“The guideline reflects several studies that have poured in during the past decade to try to make improvements in cancer care,” Debra N. Yeboa, MD, vice chair of the guideline task force and associate professor of radiation oncology at The University

Global mortality rates are decreasing but not among children, adolescents and young adults, according to study results published in The Lancet.
“The rapid growth in the world’s aging population and evolving risk factors have ushered in a new era of global health challenges,” Christopher J.L. Murray, MD, DPhil, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington School of Medicine, said in a press release.
He added the data are “a wake-up call, urging government and health care leaders to respond swiftly and strategically to the disturbing trends that are

BALTIMORE — Integrative approaches to addressing both mental and physical health may be the next step in successful treatment for individuals with epilepsy, according to a presenter at the American Neurologic Association annual meeting.
“Mental health problems in epilepsy have a big impact, not the least of which is that anxiety and depression are bigger independent predictors of poor quality of life than seizure frequency,” Heidi Munger Clary, MD, MPH, FACNS, FAES, associate professor of neurology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, told attendees.
This impact is many faceted, she

To protect patients amid a changing health care landscape, ophthalmologists must be vocal with policymakers about the barriers that prevent patients from receiving proper care.
While the Big Beautiful Bill, which was signed into law in July, offers physicians a temporary pay increase to account for exceptional circumstances, Michael X. Repka, MD, MBA, president of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, told Healio that this is not enough to address issues with access to care caused by years of Medicare cuts.
Healio spoke with Repka about how ophthalmologists can push Washington to uphold

Sports cardiology is often thought of as an adult cardiology domain, but an understanding of sports cardiology is critical for all pediatric cardiology practitioners.
Data suggest that 60% to 70% of middle and high school students play organized sports, and there are more who participate in non-organized sports. Additionally, parents frequently ask about future sports participation and physical activity restrictions for their child, even during fetal cardiology consultations or in the newborn period. It is important to recognize the significant long-term implications of restricting physical

In a real-life setting, an observe-and-plan regimen for anti-VEGF injections in neovascular age-related macular degeneration reduced the clinical burden while improving visual acuity over the long term.
“The observe-and-plan regimen was developed to provide individually adjusted treatment frequency with anti-VEGF while reducing the clinical burden of monitoring visits. It is based on the concept that adequate future treatment intervals can be adequately predicted after the initial loading dose,” Mohamed Sherif, of University Eye Hospital Jules-Gonin, Switzerland, and colleagues