December 15, 2004

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Make Your Specialty Your Success

Learn from the marketing techniques your colleagues have used in their contact lens, children’s vision and low vision practices.

Ocular Drug Preview: Spotlight on Emerging Pharmaceuticals

New drugs are on the way. Here's a preview of some therapies that may soon be in the limelight.

Put Office Interruptions On Hold

Make your practice efficient by streamlining communication and workflow.

Fifth Annual Presbyopia Report: Your Role in Fall Prevention

Falls among older patients are a serious public health problem. Can improved vision decrease the risk?

Comanagement Guide to Phakic IOLs

With the recent FDA approval of the Verisyse phakic IOL, you can offer refractive procedures to your high myopes. Here's what you'll need to know before you get started.

Departments

Chairside

If Only We Could Bill for Weather

Clinical Quandaries

You Can Follow Benign Nevi

As long as you take regular fundus photographs and watch for changes.

Cornea and Contact Lens Q & A

Managing Post-Herpetic Neuralgia

Treatment of post-herpetic neuralgia may depend on two or more factors.

Diagnostic Quiz

Is This Blur Tied To Glaucoma?

Eye Splotched After Car Wash Botch

Bumpy Eyelid Troubles Child

Meetings and Conferences

Calendar

News Review

Can Heavy Computer Use Cause Glaucoma?

Stop GP Lens Wear Earlier Pre-LASIK

A new study says lens discontinuation could be up to six weeks instead of three.

Herbal Medicines and Nutritional Supplements May Cause Ocular Side Effects

Petition Opposes Proposed N.C. School of Optometry

National Vision Closed 55 Wal-Mart Vision Centers in 2004

Drug Labels Are Too Hard to Read, Study Says

Unhappy LASIK Patients Still Recommend It

Outlook

It's Not All About The Baby Boomers

Looking Forward, looking back---but overlooking the here and now.

Product Review

Retina Quiz

Did Prior Lesion Cause Vision Loss?

And, what are the suspicious findings seen in the dilated exam of the right eye? By MARK T. DUNBAR, O.D.

‘Your Eye Looks Funny, Karate Kid’

Is pediatric patient’s eye turn the first sign of an inherited retinal disease?

Therapeutic Review

When Steroids Don’t Always Work

Not all red eye presentations respond to corticosteroids.