Retina news: What's hot (and not)

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Mohammad Rafieetary, OD, FAAO, offers a sneak peek at the latest (and fake!) news in retina.

During SECO 2022, Mohammad Rafieetary, OD, FAAO, consultative optometric physician at the Charles Retina Institute in Germantown, Tennessee, offers Optometry Times®' Alex Delaney-Gesing a sneak peek at the latest news in retina— including for diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) —as well as common "fake news" circualting in medicine as a whole.

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