Optics News

LONDON — People with recurring eye disorders may be encouraged to seek attention from their local optician rather than from a hospital in the future, according to plans announced by the United Kingdom’s Health Ministry.

A “strong association” between early spectacle wear in myopia and posterior subcapsular opacity, but not nuclear opacity, was found in a large population-based study. This suggests that myopia may precede posterior subcapsular opacity, but its relationship with nuclear opacity is less clear, the study authors said.

As the population of patients with age-related macular degeneration is expected to double within the next decade, low-vision care may become a useful addition to ophthalmic practices.

Refractive surgeons seeking to reduce the amount of astigmatism induced by surgery and improve their surgical outcomes can do so by employing mathematical formulas designed to determine the amount of astigmatism induced by surgery in a single patient or in multiple patients, said Jack T. Holladay, MD, MSEE, FACS.

A computerized inventory management system can eliminate headaches and keep your optical shop’s bottom line from looking like a rollercoaster, according to successful optical shop managers.

Whether it is time to increase services by adding an optical shop or tweaking an existing shop to improve your bottom line, there are measures than can be taken to evaluate current operations and find room for improvement, experts say.

For clinicians and researchers to offer patients the best visual outcomes with today’s advanced refractive procedures, they must first attain a clear understanding of the mechanisms behind the optics of the eye.

LONDON — The fellow eye of patients with amblyopia may react differently depending on when the patient developed the amblyopia, John Sloper, FRCS, FRCOphth, told attendees here at the Moorfields Bicentenary scientific meeting.

A video game that uses 3-D glasses and a computer may help physicians detect amblyopia, said Jim O’Neill, MD.

SAN DIEGO — A newly formed company will combine the eyeglass business of Carl Zeiss and Sola, according to a press release. The deal is worth about $1.1 billion, Sola said in the release.