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Jeffrey Anshel, OD, FAAO Ocular Nutrition Society Encinitas, CA Melissa Barnett, OD, FAAO, FSLS UC Davis Medical Center Sacramento, CA Sherry J. Bass, OD, FAAO SUNY College of Optometry New [...]

Contact lens wearers who suffer from dry eye have an especially difficult experience. A contact lens is a highly designed and biocompatible medical device, yet it disrupts the normal pre-corneal [...]

Silicone Hydrogels and the Rosacea Patient KS, a 33-year-old female, presented to the University of Iowa with complaints of severe burning and discomfort for the last eight months. Over the [...]

I consider myself a bibliophile. I've had a lifelong love of books and am proud to have passed that love on to both my children. I recently completed Robin Cook's [...]

Ocular allergy is one of the most common ocular surface diseases seen in a primary eyecare practice. Allergic conjunctivitis (AC) often exists concurrently with rhinitis and asthma/and patients with allergic [...]

We've started a series of articles on the ocular effects of systemic disease. The first article in this series is an excellent summary by Dr. Michael Ohlson in which he [...]

In this month's issue, we focus on cataract surgery co-management. It's a topic especially close to my heart because I ran an optometric co-management center for a few years. It [...]

Diabetes is one of the most common systemic diseases in the world. We all see patients with diabetes in our practices on a daily basis. Many of them express an [...]

Spring brings renewal. Green returns to the trees, and flowers grow. For optometrists it means the return of ocular allergy season. The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America estimates that [...]

Recently, I had a patient return to my office shortly after his yearly exam. This gentleman has advanced glaucoma, and after my initial diagnosis, he has undergone several surgical procedures [...]

My son, a recent graduate of the University of Alabama's film school, does freelance video work. It is a cool way to pay his bills, and a fella has to [...]

Like a lot of folks, I suffer from seasonal allergies. This time of year I am much more bothered by the constant, unrelenting runny nose accompanying my seasonal allergy attacks. [...]

I readily admit I am from another time, before cell phones and laptops. But not video games. I wore Pong out back in the day. Still, I think I have [...]

This issue is our annual allergy issue. I've often joked that in the spring, a young man's thoughts turns to love, while an old optometrist's thoughts turns to ocular allergy. [...]

I get to write a lot with this gig. While I take pride (and responsibility) for everything I've written, October's issue contained an article I'm especially proud of. 'The High [...]

Corporate-affiliated optometrists with Walmart and Sam's Club have formed an association called Energeyes to facilitate networking, collaboration, and education for the benefit of their corporate-affiliated optometric colleagues. The potential number [...]

I spent the first 10 years of my adult life working as an itinerant coal miner, like my father and grandfather before me. It wasn't until a good woman, who [...]

When I wrote about my learning curve with cataract surgery a few months back, I mentioned the need to deal with any ocular surface matters before cataract evaluation. A compromised [...]

In this issue is an excellent article by Dr. Zach McCarty that discusses Meaningful Use and the need for optometrists to comply with the mandatory EHR guidelines by 2014. In [...]

I recently bought a new truck. It's nothing fancy, a bare-bones pickup truck. I looked far and wide, did extensive research, haggled with different dealerships, and narrowed the selection to [...]

The other day I was driving along, enjoying a beautiful, warm Southern winter day, when a plumber whizzed by in his dirty white van. The truck-side advertising showed a dripping [...]

In my years in this profession, I've seen a lot of changes--besides those to my hairline and waistline. I've seen us go from a drugless profession to one in which [...]

Howdy. My name is Ernie. That's how I've introduced myself to my patients, my students, business acquaintances, and total strangers for as long as I can remember. Somewhere else in [...]