Optometry

NEW ORLEANS — The World Council of Optometry has teamed up with WHO to support SPECS 2030, a global effort to increase access to refractive error services.

LAS VEGAS — CooperVision announced at Vision Expo West that it has opened applications for its ninth-annual Best Practices and student scholarship honorees, which celebrates exceptional optometry practices and students across the country.

LAS VEGAS — Neurolens announced the release of N3, a virtual reality experience that educates patients on binocular alignment and measures the parameters necessary for creating spectacle lenses to correct misalignments.

The nonprofit organization Optometry Giving Sight has launched its 2023 World Sight Day Challenge, with this year’s theme, “Giving Together, Seeing Forever,” celebrating the collective optometry community caring for those in need.

Patients who underwent YAG laser capsulotomy after cataract surgery were satisfied with the convenience and timeliness of having the procedure done at their local optometrist’s office, according to an American Optometric Association survey.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis today vetoed Senate Bill 230, which would have prohibited a doctor of optometry from using the term “optometric physician” and made it a felony to do so.

Haag-Streit USA has launched the Reliance Optometry Workplace, a cost-effective optometry exam lane solution, the company announced in a press release.

The World Council of Optometry announced that the theme of its World Optometry Week celebration, March 19 to 25, is: “Expanding optometry’s role ... The time is now!”

The Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions announced that it will develop a new college of optometry and name Adam Hickenbotham, OD, MPH, PhD, as founding dean.

Donors who gifted more than $100,000 to Optometry Giving Sight were recognized at the nonprofit organization’s first Beacon of Light dinner at Vision Expo West, according to an Optometry Giving Sight press release.