The ophthalmology community, and that of pediatric ophthalmology in particular, lost a shining star when Arthur L. Rosenbaum, MD, passed away on June 22, 2010, at the age of 69, after a long and difficult illness. Dr Rosenbaum was the Brindell and Milton Gottlieb Professor of Pediatric Ophthalmology, Vice Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology, and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Ophthalmo...

Purpose: To evaluate postoperative outcomes between pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) and posterior episcleral buckle procedure (PEBP) in myopic eyes with retinal detachment (RD) and macular hole (MH). Design: Retrospective nonrandomized comparative interventional trial. Participants and Intervention: The study included 30 phakic, highly myopic eyes (from 19–30 negative diopters) of 30 patients with ...

1 Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA 2Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis Research Institute (TAARI), David Braley Research Institute, Hamilton General Hospital Campus, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada 3 Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, C...

B oard certification has been widely accepted as a means of improving the quality of medical and dental care. Yet, certification of most practicing orthodontists has historically remained elusive at best. Traditional certification percentages of American Association of Orthodontists (AAO) members before 2005 did not exceed 25% and was only between 13% and 17% in the late 1970s. In 2005, to moti...

The Diagnosis and classification of periodontal diseases has remained a dilemma since long. Two distinct concepts have been used to define diseases: Essentialism and Nominalism. Essentialistic concept implies the real existence of disease whereas; nominalistic concept states that the names of diseases are the convenient way of stating concisely the endpoint of a diagnostic process. It generally...

introduction: the prevalence of hearing loss in neonates is 2-5 out of every 1,000 live births. global health committee, american academy of otolaryngology, and american academy of pediatrics have recommended that hearing loss in infants be identified, and treated when possible, prior to 6 months of age. this study was designed with the aim to screen the hearing of neonates in mashhad, iran. me...

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery has published numerous conference proceedings and supplements on dermal injectables and soft-tissue dermal fillers, including botulinum toxin,1,2 semipermanent and permanent dermal and subdermal fillers,3,4 temporary dermal and soft-tissue fillers,5 and multimodality combination injectables for facial rejuvenation.6 Although these supplements were authored by ...

The Sydney–AAO Multi-object Integral field spectrograph (SAMI) Galaxy Survey is an ongoing project to obtain spatially resolved spectroscopic observations of ∼3400 galaxies by mid-2016. To date, a total of ∼1000 galaxies have been observed, making the SAMI Galaxy Survey the largest integral field survey in existence. In July 2014 the early data release for the SAMI galaxy Survey occurred, with ...

[1] Trends in the satellite-derived Antarctic sea ice concentrations (1979–2002) show pronounced increase (decrease) in the central Pacific sector (Bellingshausen/ western Weddell sector) by 4–10% per decade. Confidence levels for these regional trends exceed 95%. Positive polarities of the Antarctic Oscillation (AAO) lead to more (less) ice in the eastern Ross/Amundsen sector (Bellingshausen/n...

The American Board of Orthodontics (ABO) has historically requested the chairs and the directors of accredited orthodontic programs to submit questions for the Phase II written examination. For the last decade, most programs have required their senior residents to complete the ABO Phase II examination for residency outcome assessment and to initiate the orthodontist’s pathway to board certifica...