LKC Technologies recently debuted RETeval, a handheld diabetic retinopathy (DR) screening device that enables any healthcare provider to screen for and detect sight-threatening DR.

The third annual Focus on Eye Health National Summit is scheduled for June 18, 2014, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

You see them year after year in your chair: persistent cylindrical dandruff (CD), red lid margins, and eyelash distention. You've prescribed lid scrubs with baby shampoo, warm compresses, and even steroid/antibiotic combo drops, but nothing seems to resolve the condition. If this is the case, it's likely you are dealing with demodex blepharitis.

Converse Eyewear, John Varvatos, and Blackfin all introduce new collections. Coburn releases a new polishing compound, Digi-Sheen Pro.

So here we are, facing another bleak, dreary January. I really hate January. One of the reasons I hate January is New Year’s resolutions. Why do we spend time at the dawn of each new year coming up with a list of things wrong with us?

The measurement and management of intraocular pressure (IOP) in patients with glaucoma is critical. Even with the onslaught of new technologies to monitor progression and make earlier diagnoses, IOP remains a crucial data point in the optometric examination.

We have talked about dropouts in contact lens practice since we started fitting lenses. Jason Nichols, OD, said 16% of contact lens wearers permanently drop out of lens wear each year.1 Many others quote 15-30% of lens wearers drop out each year.

Prevent Blindness and other eye health organizations have declared January as National Glaucoma Awareness Month. Prevent Blindness seeks to educate the public on the second leading cause of blindness, following cataracts, by providing free resources via online or by mail through its Glaucoma Learning Center.

AOAExcel, a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Optometric Association, has recently partnered with Healthcare Professional Funding (HPF) to offer financial solutions for ODs.

ABB Optical Group will offer two new custom soft contact lens product lines. Customers can now order the full line of SynergEyes Inc. products and BioColors from Orion Vision Group.»

The NBEO has made both an obvious and a very courageous decision to embrace its certification as board certification in general optometry. Obvious in that more than 10,000 ODs already represent themselves to be board certified by the NBEO to the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) and subsequently to the health plans that rely on CAQH for credentialing. And it was courageous, as I’m certain the NBEO faced opposition to its action.

To help eyecare professionals encourage their patients to make eye health a priority, AllAboutVision.com has released a 2014 checklist to offer to your patients to ensure ocular health.

Many patients may assume their solution of choice will do the job and that, perhaps, the differences represented on the shelf are minimal. But we know that contact lens solutions are complex formulations of biocides, buffering agents, and surfactants, and that the balance between these agents must be nearly perfect.

I know it is human nature to ignore our mortality. I also know running a small business like most of us do, we have our eyes on temporal problems: payroll, staff, insurance. All these little fires leave us with no time for other things, and what gets neglected most often is ourselves.

I was born in Melbourne. I lived there for 23 years and did my Bachelor of Optometry at the University of Melbourne. Then I worked in practice for a year, I got married, jumped on a boat with my wife and sailed to England.

QLT Inc. announced that the first patient has been dosed in the company's Phase IIa proof-of-concept trial of QLT091001 in adult subjects with impaired dark adaptation (IDA), a condition that results in decreased ability to recover visual sensitivity in the dark after exposure to bright lights.

Carl Zeiss Vision has announced the achievement of ISO 9001 Quality Management Certification for three Zeiss optical laboratories located in Chester, VA, Hebron, KY, and Clackamas, OR.

The Board of Trustees of the American Optometric Association (AOA) has named Jon Hymes as interim executive director and Renee Brauns as interim deputy executive director.

Eschenbach recently announced a new Sektor D binocular series that features an open-hinge design.

Preoperative evaluation of patients with pseudoexfoliation (PXF) syndrome is essential in preparing for and potentially preventing complications during phacoemulsification. Patients with PXF have been documented to have an accelerated rate of cataracts, both nuclear and subcapsular.