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Research has revealed the positive safety and efficacy profile of autologous serum eye drops (ASEDs) and their ability to Improve the signs and symptoms of ocular surface manifestations. (1-2) Autologous [...]

A successful optometry practice requires a dedicated, passionate team and effective leadership. Here's how to land ideal candidates and foster a positive office environment to keep them there long-term. A [...]

We share our annual income survey this month, and there's a lot in the data to be enthused about. The average income reported by the 422 optometrists who participated came [...]

Soon after its FDA approval in 1998, LASIK became the most popular surgery among patients looking for a permanent means of correcting refractive error--easily eclipsing PRK as the procedure of [...]

First developed in the 1990s as a new method for refractive surgery, the femtosecond laser did not gain tremendous notoriety until researchers determined that it could be used to cut [...]

The number of customizable gas permeable (GP) lenses is expanding, thanks to improved manufacturing technologies and expanded and innovative parameter and material options. While the existing patient base for GP [...]

Optometrist Alan Bellamy who runs two independent practices in the Midlands has a low cost solution to the problem of how to let patients see how good they look in [...]

Nearly nine out of 10 GPs believe that optometrists should be allowed to prescribe ocular therapeutic drugs. However, opinions among Britain's ophthalmologists are more divided, with just over half in [...]

Women ODs have taken a number of steps during the economic recession to enhance their professional services and/or profitability, with two-thirds of the more than 200 women who responded reporting [...]

A 59-year-old white male presented to the office in early September 2010 for a second opinion regarding his blurred vision at both distance and near. The patient presented to another [...]

What if you could measure refractive error with your cell phone? A research team at MIT has come up with a quick, simple and extremely cheap way to do just [...]

We're privileged to answer many hundreds of questions and offer our perspective on a wide range of issues on optometric practice. Here are some of the pearls we've picked up [...]

With her strong interest in geriatric patients, Dr. Claire Pizzimenti was at first reluctant when a school nurse asked her six years ago to help with school vision screenings. On [...]

It was by pure happenstance that Mary VanHoy, OD, FCOVD, FCSO, became involved in vision therapy. She and her husband, Donald VanHoy, OD, graduated from Indiana University (IU) School of [...]

I was educated with SOAP. And, yes, my mouth was the recipient in my early years. My mother told me that one day, when I was about nine years old, [...]

In the exam room, Charlene Henderson, OD, and Tracy MacIntyre, OD, are confident about their routines. They've spent the past 14 and 12 years, respectively, fine-tuning their clinical skills in [...]

Q I have a patient with 3.00D of cylinder who is just about ready for cataract surgery. When do I talk to the patient about the possibility of a toric [...]

Some people are lucky enough to identify their goals early in life and make steady progress toward achieving them. But these two women show that even if it takes a [...]