Spread the word about eye health in May

Maryland doctors of optometry gain new autonomy, prescribing authority, and procedures and management privileges with scope of practice expansion.

May 2 is National Life Insurance Day, an observance that reminds Americans how proper planning now buys peace of mind in the future. Protect your loved ones with life insurance through AOAExcel®.

See what kind of system you shlould design and order once you determine a patient to be a good candidate to drive with bioptic telescope system.

The CDC estimates that 1 in 59 children are diagnosed with autism by age 8. Optometry can play an essential role in helping these children to a better place.

AOA offers new resource, which helped carry the message to policymakers and physicians during AOA on Capitol Hill 2019.

The AOA is standing by a Feb. 14 article on its website, aoa.org, which reported on several citations filed by the California Board of Optometry in 2018 against the national optical chain Stanton Optical.

Doctors of optometry must often be like journalists, documenting the who, what and when before determining the how. This holds true when prescribing and fitting a bioptic telescope systems (BTS) for driving.

As many as 1 in 5 contact lens wearers dispose of their lenses down the sink or toilet, contributing an estimated 6-10 metric tons of plastic lenses to U.S. wastewater each year.

The 45-day window of review has opened for doctors of optometry to inspect and dispute their 2018 payments from the health care industry. Data must be disputed by May 15 to appear in June.