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Why Defining Ocular Sarcoidosis Could Be Helpful to Doctors and Patients

Doctors often describe sarcoidosis as a diagnosis of exclusion.


Author Kara Mason | Publish Date February 15, 2024
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Patient Care    Advancement    Autoimmune disease    Uveitis & Ocular Immunology

Sight-Saving Care Inspires Gift of Hope

Caleb Hebel was in his mid-30s, the prime of his life, with two active children and one on the way, when his mysterious ailment started. “I was go, go, go,” he recalls. “I played hockey, golf, and lifted weights. Our kids were involved in sports, so we were always going places.” On top of that, he was the chief financial officer of a real estate development company and principal of a family business.


Author Toni Lapp | Publish Date December 02, 2022
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Study Links Maternal Asthma to Blinding Eye Disease in Premature Infants

news outletHCP Live
Publish DateJuly 26, 2024

Maternal asthma could increase the likelihood of a blinding eye disease in premature infants, according to a new study by investigator led by Zafar Gill, MD, a vitreoretinal diseases and surgery fellow in the Department of Ophthalmology. 

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Ophthalmology Times

Ophthalmology researchers develop framework to reduce spin in scientific reporting

news outletOphthalmology Times
Publish DateJuly 22, 2024

Riaz Qureshi, PhD, an assistant professor of ophthalmology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, recently published a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine that features an international team of researchers that has established a framework providing guidance to authors, peer reviewers, and editors to rectify spin of harms in systematic review.

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Cosmos Magazine

Spin doctors: medical researchers take aim at misleading papers

news outletCosmos Magazine
Publish DateJuly 22, 2024

An international group of medical researchers led by Riaz Qureshi, PhD, assistant professor of ophthalmology, is calling for a better understanding of “spin” in research papers.

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A Colorado doctor is fighting the FDA to allow men who have sex with men to donate their corneas

news outletCPR
Publish DateJuly 19, 2024

“I think their position is ridiculous and negligent,” said Dr. Michael Puente, a pediatric ophthalmologist at the University of Colorado and Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora. “It’s ridiculous that a policy still exists with no scientific evidence to support it.”

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