Contact Lens Rule bill gains senators’ backing after all-out advocacy campaign
Over 7,400 individual constituent letters were sent via AOA’s Action Center and countless phone calls placed to senators’ offices, in what represents the AOA’s largest advocacy campaign in recent history.
Be prepared: Contact Lens Rule changes take effect Oct. 16, access AOA resources
AOA and optometry’s advocates continue to fight the FTC’s rule changes—act now to support these efforts and have your practice ready for implementation on day one.
1-800 Contacts notifies patients not to wear AquaSoft lenses due to lens defect
The company has recalled its AquaSoft brand of contacts because of a manufacturing defect that may cause eye discomfort and irritation.
Contact Lens Rule Modernization Act introduced in the U.S. Senate
FTC rule set to take effect in October.
‘Recovery to renaissance’: Optometry’s advocates fight to advance profession
The FTC’s Contact Lens Rule, COVID-19 pandemic response and vision plan concerns headline the advocacy priorities that doctors nationwide shared with Congress in a consequential session.
Championing paraoptometrics
The AOA continues to create opportunities for paraoptometrics to be all they can be—readying them for the effects of scope expansion and empowering them as grassroots advocates for the profession of optometry. And for the [...]