March 15, 2006

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Features

Case Report

Young, Healthy Patient Sees Gray Spots and Loses Vision

This female patient was diagnosed with acute retinal pigment epitheliitis, which resolved without treatment.

Ophthalmic Lenses

The Truth Behind Spectacle Remakes

How to prevent them, how to plan for them, and why your office needs a written policy to manage them.

Patient Care

Does Unilateral Keratoconus Exist?

And if it does, is LASIK permissible on the 'normal' eye? Research suggests it isn't.

Pediatrics

Help Children to Ditch the Itch

Spring is almost here. So are ocular allergies. Treating children, once problematic, is now much easier to handle.

Practice Management

A Game Plan for Better Office Design

This architect reveals surprising ideas to improve your office layout and, ultimately, your practice.

Departments

Chairside

Privacy and Private Parts

Uncle Sam gave us HIPAA. Now he wants to spy into our computers. So, if I look at www.bikini.com to study anatomy, is that HIPAA-protected?

Clinical Quandaries

Get to Know Your Pharmacist

To get the service you want, first understand what these busy health professionals really do. Know your pharmacist and you'll go far.

Cornea and Contact Lens Q & A

Lens-Induced Stem Cell Deficit

This can occur as the result of mechanical trauma or inflammatory changes.

Diagnostic Quiz

These Lids Are a Drag

Meetings and Conferences

News Review

In the News

Florida O.D. Sues M.D. for Malpractice

N.C. Kids' Vision Law Under Attack

Eleven school boards are suing the stated. This, amid O.D.-related controversy.

Supreme Court Denies Hearing on Tennessee Law Regulating Optometric Practices and Retail Stores

Drusen Components Cause Wet AMD

Oklahoma Kills Bill to Cut ‘Surgical’ Procedures

Optometrist Puts Practice Up for Sale ... on eBay

Outlook

Sweating the Small Stuff

Sometimes, the most basic things in life prove to be the greatest challenges.

Product Review

Retina Quiz

Raised Lesion Occupies Arcade

Is this suspicious finding related to the patient's history of breast and bladder cancer, or does it represent something different?

Therapeutic Review

Just an Eyedrop? Think Again

The following column illustrates the importance of always remembering the potency of ophthalmic pharmaceuticals.