A large amount of eyedrops users have difficulty in instillation, often touching the tip of the bottle into the eye, which can lead to contamination of the product in the bottle. There is also excessive instillation of droplets, which generates waste and may cause poisoning. The use of the Eyedrop® facial supporter reduced the touch of the tip of the eyedrop bottle on the ocular tissues, making instillation easier […].

The article reports that medical undergraduates in the college studied showed great lack of knowledge about the primary open-angle glaucoma, a disease that, if not diagnosed and treated properly, can lead to irreversible blindness […].

We would like to stress the importance of adequate examination through direct ophthalmoscopy in the screening and management of patients with hypertension and diabetes; as mentioned in the article Retinopathy in patients with hypertension and/or diabetes in a family health unit, this test gives general practitioners more control over the clinical course of their patients and leads to more accurate referrals of patients to ophthalmologists(1) […].

We have read with great enthusiasm the recently published article entitled ”Use of intravitreal bevacizumab or triamcinolone acetonide as a preoperative adjunct to vitrectomy for vitreous haemorrhage in diabetics” by Ferraz et al.1. We congratulate the authors for their lightening study. In that well-designed study, Ferraz and coworkers tried to evaluate the effect of preoperative intravitreal bevacizumab (IVB) or triamcinolone (IVT) on the rate of early postvitrectomy hemorrhage in proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR). They concluded that intravitreal injection of bevacizumab […]