July 15, 2011

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Contact Lenses

Offering Online Ordering

The success of growing your contact lens practice may depend on your ability to address your patients’ need for convenience.

Dry Eye

The Global Consensus: MGD in 2011

The recently published report is the current and definitive summary of meibomian gland dysfunction.

Glaucoma

The Dark Side of the Nerve

A glaucoma suspect presents with neurodegenerative disease. What’s the link between glaucoma and Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s? And can we use one to predict the other?

Practice Management

Offering Online Ordering

The success of growing your contact lens practice may depend on your ability to address your patients’ need for convenience.

Vision Therapy

When Stress Strains Vision

As our eyes face a new breadth of ocular stressors, it is imperative for eye care practitioners to understand and properly diagnose ocular effects related to stress.

Departments

Chairside

I Was Framed!

Warning: This column contains references to the “good old days” when things were cheap. Even worse, I mention that dirty word: glasses.

Clinical Quandaries

Don’t Ignore a ‘Black Eye’

If you suspect domestic violence, you need to do something about it. Fortunately, there are many ways you can at least try to help.

Coding Connection

Coding for MGD and OSD

Meibomian and ocular surface disease coding isn’t hard, but take care with treatment.

Cornea and Contact Lens Q & A

Treatment Options Run Dry?

Goggles or scleral lenses could be the way to go when traditional treatments just aren’t cutting it.

Diagnostic Quiz

Looking for Closure?

A 57-year-old presents with pain, photophobia and lacrimation in her right eye.

Letters to the Editor

Here's what our readers have to say.

News Review

Treating ‘Face Blindness’

Virtual Cane is a Reality

One day, the device could replace the more cumbersome white cane altogether.

Wild West Show Gets Too Wild

Family vacation takes unexpected turn when optometrist John Ellis gets shot at Wild West show.

Eyes on the Ball

Blue eyes are bad for baseball batters.

Picture Perfect

First photos of rod photoreceptors will aid diagnosis and treatment.

In the News

Here's a glimpse of what's happening in the profession.

Pa. Bill Could Limit O.D.s

Legislation would redefine ophthalmic surgery—and freeze the scope of O.D.s in Pa.

Outlook

Efficacy Aside

Will the CATT study convince you it’s best to substitute less-expensive Avastin for Lucentis?

Product Review

A look at the latest products and services in the optometry industry.

Retina Quiz

Patient Needs a New Hobby

This patient presented with gradually reduced visual acuity. Could a very risky activity from his past be to blame?

Review of Systems

Excess Weight and Obesity: Part 2

Several ophthalmic conditions and diseases are linked to excess weight, some of them sight-threatening.

Therapeutic Review

My ‘Stealthy’ Situation

Here’s a personal account of how I lost some visual acuity to a stealthy sight thief.