Darrell E. White

At SkyVision, we have found that generic cyclosporine A 0.05% in a lipid emulsion is not a prescription that can be written and forgotten.

Dry eye continues to be a hot spot when it comes to new diagnostic and therapeutic modalities.Large established companies and small startups alike continue to develop new products and bring them to market. To be sure, some of the new offerings are less new and more “me too.” I mean, how many more different options do we really need in the cyclosporine A space? I would be perfectly

Boy, I know that there are some really terrible jobs in the extended health care universe, but it sure seems like one of them has to be the pharmaceutical sales representative.You know, the sales reps who are customer-facing foot soldiers and spend their workdays in the space between the folks who make medicine and medical devices and the people who prescribe and use them.

Welcome to the annual anti-inflammatory version of The Dry Eye.You are probably wondering what the heck there is to say about the anti-inflammatory world, especially after my epic multi-column/blog post rant earlier this year. Frankly, so am I. Consequently, this could very well be one of my shorter columns. I mean, short of just saying we are all waiting for the reproxalap Prescription Drug User

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

Once upon a time, dry eye disease was simple.Like a desert, an eye with dry eye disease (DED) simply had too little water to get the job done. It makes me chuckle when I see modern medications that have little or nothing to do with tear volume evaluated in clinical trials named after famous deserts.

As the son and grandson of English teachers, I am always on the lookout for the most accurate vocabulary available prior to embarking on any serious discussion.This holds true whether I am wearing either my writer’s cap at the keyboard or “choir” cap at a podium. Can’t help myself. After decades of “discussions” around the dinner table or sitting in family

With the singular exception of punctal or canalicular occlusion, when we are talking about in-office dry eye disease treatments, we are talking about treating meibomian gland dysfunction and evaporative dry eye. For decades, meibomian gland dysfunction treatment began and ended with warm compresses and baby shampoo scrubs. Medical advice consisted of insisting that your patient use Johnson’s baby

What do you see in your mind’s eye when you write that first prescription for your new symptomatic patient with dry eye disease? Me? I look up above the slit lamp and see a 50-foot wall with hundreds of medieval archers ready to rain destruction on us if I sign that script. Not to mention the multitude of horrors that await us in the prior authorization dungeons should we make it past the castle

I came across a video of the host of the HBO “Last Week Tonight” talk show skewering both the critics of real science and the quacks who spread pseudoscience.