Bringing prediabetic patients back to normoglycemia may lower the risk of microvascular disease, including retinopathy, years later, research claims.

Each year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's ICD-10 Coordination Committee works with stakeholders to revise and update the code set. The new ICD-10 codes go into effect on Oct. 1.

Honoring optometric staff this Paraoptometric Week, which drives recognition of paraoptometry as a profession that hinges on the strength of paraoptometric members as well as the support of doctors of optometry and other care providers.

E-cigarette use—vaping—once touted as a safer alternative to cigarettes, is now under scrutiny after several deaths, while a leading company received a federal reprimand. Find out what optometry needs to know when counseling patients.

What would you do if a patient arrived for an appointment at your optometric practice with a service animal? What if the animal is there for emotional support? A new ethics case study addresses potential legal and ethical issues.

The only formal observance dedicated to honor optometric practice staff is Sept. 17-21.

The AOA applauds an FDA-proposed rule that would require cigarette packaging to include new warnings, color graphics depicting the negative health consequences of smoking, including blindness.

Binocular rivalry considered in identifying non-verbal, neural marker for autism.

September is Life Insurance Awareness Month, reminding people to plan for the unthinkable. AOAExcel® offers that peace of mind through group term and individual term life insurance for AOA members.

Optometry Cares®—The AOA Foundation awarded 17 Healthy Eyes Healthy Children grants, totaling $77,500, to initiatives bolstering awareness and access to children’s eye care services.