Rachel Coulter, OD, FAAO, and Erin Jenewein, OD, FAAO, recently gave a presentation at the American Academy of Optometry's Academy 2014 meeting in Denver, CO, on recognizing ocular disease in children.

Glen Steele, OD, FAAO, recently gave a presentation at the American Academy of Optometry's Academy 2014 in Denver, CO, on the questions to ask and tests to conduct when considering vision therapy for a patient.

During the American Academy of Optometry's Academy 2014, physicians and researchers peered into the future of treatments for presbyopia.

Bill Townsend, OD, FAAO, recently gave a presentation at the American Academy of Optometry's Academy 2014 in Denver, CO, titled "Good drugs, bad reactions."

During the American Academy of Optometry's Academy 2014, concussion experts discussed the need for-and progress toward-user-friendly diagnostic tools for protecting athletes of all ages, and the key role of visual testing therein.

During the American Academy of Optometry's Academy 2014, panelists outlined the promise and potential pitfalls of cannabinoid-based therapies.

Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the Georgia Optometric Association’s annual fall meeting in Athens, GA. It is a pilgrimage I try to make each year to renew old acquaintances as well as get those required continuing education hours all ODs work for to keep our license current.

Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, found that all three of the Google Glass wearers tested had blind spots in the upper right quadrant of the visual field, according to a study published in JAMA.

Denver-Before we head out to Denver for the American Academy of Optometry 2014 meeting, we asked our friends at Denver.com for some recommendations for the best spots to eat near the Colorado Convention Center. Writers Courtney Gibb and John Helkenn hand picked a list for Optometry Times with a little something for everybody that has us hungry already.

Alcon recently joined the Think About Your Eyes national public awareness campaign presented by The Vision Council and the American Optometric Association aimed at educating consumers on the benefits of vision health.

Haag-Streit Surgical recently announced it added several new features to its intraoperative OCT system, iOCT.

Johnson & Johnson recently announced the initial launch of 1-Day Acuvue Define contact lenses with Lacreon technology, a lens that will accentuate the eye’s natural beauty while helping to support eye health, according to the company.

Your patients may have seen wife of rapper T.I. and reality star Tameka “Tiny” Harris appear on Good Morning America this week to reveal she had undergone surgery to permanently change her brown eyes to “ice gray,” sparking a national conversation about the safety of such a procedure.

Bausch + Lomb recently announced that its next generation sub-micron gel formulation of loteprednol etabonate was statistically superior to placebo in eliminating inflammation and pain following cataract surgery by study Day 8, the primary endpoints in the first Phase 3, multi-center, double-masked, vehicle-controlled, parallel-group study.

A recent study published in the Journal of Glaucoma found that there was no detected increase in glaucoma risk with current, recent, or past use of systemic fluoroquinolones, but did find a minimal statistically significant increased risk with distant use.

A recent study published in JAMA Ophthalmology found that current use of moxifloxacin (Avelox, Bayer) or ciprofloxacin (Cipro, Bayer) appears to increase the risk for uveitis.

For any treatment to be successful, early detection is key. For that reason, genetic testing may play a role in determining the frequency of follow-up in patients who are determined to have high-risk alleles.

I grew up in a small town called Mesquite, TX, right on the edge of Dallas, a small suburb. Texas weather is very temperamental (no pun intended), so there are days when it’s really cool. Real cool to me is about 50°F. [Laughs] Oh man, it’s cold outside, and then the next day it’s 80°F. I’m used to living in that range. And St. Louis, we have a winter here…but something about last year’s. It never went away.

I'm sure all of us have had days like this, or months like this, or even years like this, what I like to call, “Patients say the darndest things." See if any of these encounters sound familiar.

Abbott recently announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for two new products used in laser cataract surgery, the Cataract Operating System 3 (cOS3) and the Liquid Optics Interface 12, both for the company’s Catalys Precision Laser System.