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Experts update legislators on dry eye disease at congressional briefing
July 31, 2018 - Healio
The Alliance for Eye and Vision Research and the Tear Film and Ocular Surface Society attended a congressional briefing and conducted a “test your tears” dry eye screening in recognition of July as Dry Eye Awareness Month.
The Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (AEVR) and the Tear Film and Ocular Surface Society (TFOS) were joined at the briefing by the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Academy of Optometry, the American Optometric Association, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Prevent Blindness and Research to Prevent Blindness.
According to a report on AEVR’s website, the TFOS Dry Eye Workshop II (TFOS DEWS II) —which was published in July 2017 in The Ocular Surface journal — and its impact on clinical practice and research was the focus of the congressional briefing. TFOS DEWS II, as previously reported, updated the definition, classification and diagnosis of dry eye; evaluated its epidemiology, pathophysiology, mechanism and impact; addressed the management and therapy of the disease; and developed new clinical trial design recommendations to better assess pharmaceutical interventions.
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