Optometry

LAS VEGAS – While certain requirements of health care reform may make practicing optometry more expensive and take time away from patient care, there are good points, Tim Petito, OD, FAAO, said here at Vision Expo West.

Treehouse Eyes, a new company dedicated to managing myopia, announced it is collaborating with eight additional primary care practices across the country.

The National Poll on Healthy Aging revealed significant demographic and socioeconomic differences in self-reported eye examination rates in adults 50 to 80 years old.

Analysis of data from an annual state-based survey found that adults with vision impairment were 3.5 times more likely to report functional limitations related to subjective cognitive decline, according to a report published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Increasing weekly outdoor activity can reduce the risk of myopia onset and myopic shift, according to a meta-analysis of clinical studies.

Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston rejected signatures in support of a referendum on a recently passed law allowing optometrists in the state to perform certain surgical procedures.

The Alliance for Eye and Vision Research and the Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society joined with others in the vision community to recognize July as Dry Eye Awareness Month and the two groups also participated in related a congressional briefing.

The recent Ocular Surgery News cover story, “Optometric integration and scope of practice still disputed,” in the May 25, 2019, issue leads only to the conclusion that organized ophthalmology’s unbecoming opposition to the rapidly advancing, patient-centered wave of optometric scope expansion is now a defining obsession for the profession. Although it’s understandable when those most fearful of change try to cling to the past for their own sense of comfort and security, optometry and the American Optometric Association are focused on the future of health care and our essential and expanding role in it, and we are succeeding in our nationwide effort to expand access to the highest quality and most advanced care.

In this video, Karla Zadnik, OD, PhD, dean and the Glenn A. Fry Professor of Optometry and Physiological Optics at The Ohio State University College of Optometry, discusses multidisciplinary approaches to myopia control.

In this video, Karla Zadnik, OD, PhD, dean and the Glenn A. Fry Professor of Optometry and Physiological Optics at The Ohio State University College of Optometry, discusses the importance of educating parents about myopia risks.