The members of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery are getting a little more aggressive in certain areas of their refractive surgery practices, but are playing it safe in others, according to the latest survey of the organization's membership.

The Food and Drug Administration announced that it approved the Implantable Miniature Telescope to improve vision in some patients with end-stage age-related macular degeneration.

The Food and Drug Admin-istration has approved Lucentis (rani- bizumab injection, Genentech/Roche) for the treatment of macular edema following retinal vein occlusion.

At this year's meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the members of the International Workshop on Meibomian Gland Dysfunction gave attendees a preliminary glimpse of their comprehensive report on the meibomian gland and its disorders.

Much as clinicians will often take a new idea or a newly approved technology and "run with it," devising and testing uses that weren't initially apparent, researchers in eye diseases are expanding the uses and potential of a host of different concepts.