Optometry News

Cataracts are the leading cause of blindness in adults older than age 50 worldwide.

As cornea specialists, we talk a lot about how to get timely referrals of keratoconus patients from optometrists and ophthalmologists who don’t perform cross-linking. But it is also important to recognize our role in transitioning the patient back to the referring doctor. To me, there are three key elements of a successful handoff.

Physicians treating Medicare patients are staring down the barrel of five consecutive years of cuts to their reimbursement rates.

A long time ago, my kids taught me that the importance of pain depends upon whether you are the one giving it or the one receiving it.

Flash photos typically produce a red reflection in people’s eyes, but sometimes that reflection can appear white or gray, which is known as leukocoria.

ORLANDO — In this Healio Video Perspective from Vision Expo East, David Kading, OD, FAAO, discusses the current and future applications of AI in eye care, particularly contact lenses.

ATHENS, Greece — For patients who cannot lie flat, it is important to learn how to perform phacoemulsification in the upright position, according to a speaker.

ATHENS, Greece — One-year data of high-fluence accelerated epithelium-off corneal cross-linking for keratoconus showed efficacy comparable to cross-linking with the Dresden protocol, according to a speaker at the ESCRS winter meeting.

Cyclopentolate 1% and tropicamide 1% had similar efficacies for cycloplegic refraction in youth and adults without strabismus, according to a study.