Comanagement News

Johnson & Johnson looks to its planned acquisition of Abbott Medical Optics as instrumental in improving patients’ eye health experience and nourishing the partnership between optometry and ophthalmology.

It seems like just yesterday when there was a phone booth on every street corner. Of course if it wasn’t a phone booth, it was a mailbox.

The recipient of the most extensive face transplant ever performed is experiencing a successful recovery at the 1-year anniversary of the surgery, according to NYU Langone Medical Center.

“Always have a kind, compassionate heart,” when discussing obesity and its associated comorbidities with a patient, Kimberly K. Reed, OD, FAAO, recommended. “There is such a long, deeply entrenched history of stigmatizing the condition that overweight patients rarely encounter health care professionals, or many people in their life, without ridicule.

As optometrists, we see ourselves in the business of helping people see better, and while that is very true, we do so much more. We are in the business of making people look better and feel better.

Standard epithelium-off corneal collagen cross-linking halts ectasia progression in patients with advanced keratoconus, according to a study in the Journal of Refractive Surgery.

Philadelphia has been a hot bed of political activity and important social issues this summer. Our “founding brothers” would be so proud.

Health care “reform” has brought about some positive, some interesting and some very challenging circumstances for doctors practicing medicine.

Satisfaction in LASIK patients 5 years after surgery remained high, according to a study in the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.

Researchers determined that epithelium-on corneal collagen crosslinking is a satisfactory treatment for patients with advanced keratoconus, according to a study in the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.