Image Credit: Getty Images Micaela Gobeille OD, MS, FAAO, Dipl AAO LV, lists smartphone technologies designed to improve quality of life for individuals with visual impairment and outlines strategies ...
Semaglutide use is associated with a significantly lower risk for thyroid eye disease-related diagnoses at 5 years in patients with type 2 diabetes and thyrotoxicosis. Patients with autoimmune ...
Image Credit: Getty Images This commentary, from an AOA Federal Relations & Advocacy representative, explores recent legislative initiatives on the optometric scope of practice and the regulation of ...
Image Credit: Getty Images David A. Damari, OD, FCOVD, FAAO, addresses some of the misconceptions both clinicians and patients have concerning dyslexia and affirms the optometrist’s role in treating ...
In the Preferred Practice Pattern, the American Academy of Ophthalmology recommends adults to undergo regular comprehensive medical eye evaluation even in the absence of disease. The American Academy ...
Combining an ultrasonic atomization of traditional Chinese medicinal herbs with artificial tears improves outcomes in dry eye disease compared with artificial tears alone. Chinese herbal medicine ...
Investigators compared visual outcomes and complication rates between observation and medical treatment in children with mild pars planitis. Not all pediatric patients diagnosed with pars planitis (PP ...
The specific location of visual field defects dictates how patients with glaucoma or ocular hypertension experience daily visual difficulties and vision-related quality of life. Patients with central ...
Nightly administration of a gel containing combined ivermectin 0.3% plus metronidazole 0.5% eradicates Demodex and improves tear film functioning in meibomian gland dysfunction. Researchers evaluated ...
Credit: Getty Images Andrew D. Pucker, OD, PhD, identifies mechanisms of action behind various myopia control spectacles and highlights their potential to provide myopia control solutions that are ...
Image Credit: Getty Images Jonathan Chen, OD, FAAO, FSLS, urges clinicians not to abandon myopia management in their adult patients, and outlines special considerations for using ortho-k, multifocal ...
Barbara Galati/Medical Images USA Is it dry eye or neurotrophic keratitis? Winston Posvar, OD, and Andrew Pucker, OD, explain how clinical tests can help you catch this rare, but severe disease. A ...