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• Press Release: 12/25/24. The ROYAL COLLEGE of OPHTHALMOLOGISTS. Relative foveal dark adaptation: a potential method for assessing macular health.
 Kane JS, Gaspich M, Avery G, Pichardo H, Kane SA. email: sak6@cumc.columbia.edu
  
Conclusion: This method of dark adaptation is intuitive, repeated, and relatively unaffected by testing conditions. Testing times are requiring only an iPhone screen positioned at reading distance. Relative foveal dark adaptation may be a useful tool to assess macular health. Eye; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-024-03201-2 (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-024-03201-2)
   

• Press Release: 12/28/2021, IMAGINE VISION TESTIN G WHILE KIDS PLAY FUN iPAD GAMES.
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​Appearing in the Royal College of Ophthalmologist's Nature/Eye Journal in open access (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41433-021-01862-x.pdf) is the article, "Screening Children using a Mobile Graphic Device", authored by Steven A. Kane, Mark Gaspich, Julia Kane, Sarah A. Weitzman, and Albert Hofeldt from Columbia University and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mt. Sinai.  According to Pediatric Ophthalmologist, Steven A. Kane, MD, PhD, brightness sense balance, acuity, and color vision can be measured in children as young as 3 years old solely through playing a fun and easy game on a mobile device. The DiagnosticGame app detects "Lazy Eye" by two methods, visual acuity, and brightness sense balance. This is the first report of measuring brightness sense balance in children.

• An App that can save your child from amblyopia (Lazy Eye, The Future of PersonL Health, ​USA Today

• Press Release 5/5/2020: Apple app Tests Vision Remotely at Home on iPad/iPhone.  Reintroducting Brightness-sense to measure vision loss in Glaucoma.

• Press Release 12/27/2018: Apple app Detects Lazy-Eye in School Children.  “Automated Brightness Sense Screening for Amblyopia” by Dr. Steven Kane presented at American Academy of Pediatric 2018 Meeting.

• AMA Optics’ RAM helps select appropriate IOL. See The case for using a presbyopia-correcting IOL in only one eye: Ocular Surgery NewsU.S. Edition, April 25, 2018by Bret L. Fisher, MD

• VoyageMIA MAGAZINE interview: MEET ALBERT HOFELDT OF AMA OPTICS

• Press Release: Conquering Amblyopia with a New App on Apple Store