Health literacy and contact lens patients: How doctors of optometry can help
Contact lens patients aren’t picking up what eye care providers are putting down, suggests a new CDC report that recommends examining effective provider-patient communications.
AOA and AOSA give one-two punch in strenuously supporting reauthorization of Higher Education Act
Key congressional leaders urged to remove crushing school debt accumulated by optometry school graduates.
Mixing systemic and ocular pediatric medications
Millions of children are being medicated for behavior management. In a changing health care landscape, the role of doctors of optometry in their patients’ diagnoses and treatment is expanding.
New Arkansas scope law is safe, ballot issue averted
Arkansas optometrists, and their patients, win again as hard-fought efforts avert a referendum for a November 2020 ballot.
Contact Lens Rule revisions aren’t enough, AOA addresses deficiencies
With formal comments to the FTC’s supplementary rulemaking submitted, the AOA expressed concerns that proposed revisions to the Contact Lens Rule still don’t go far enough to address glaring concerns.
The wonderful healing properties of amniotic membranes
For nearly a century, amniotic membranes have been a highly effective treatment option for non-healing, chronic wounds. But only recently has eye care embraced the modality for its natural anti-inflammatory, anti-scarring properties. Here’s why amniotic [...]