Modo has introduced a range of retro-inspired styles with a modern touch. The company?s creative team went back to its roots to design a line of frames that embody the brand?s simplicity and sophisitication and then added a mix of modern detailing.

The Mark Nason Eyewear spring/summer 2012 collection by Viva International Group features classic rock ?n? roll elements combined with signature embellishments reminiscent of the brand?s couture leather boot designs, such as the dragon, crosses and detailed roses.

PixelOptics will discontinue the atLast! Line of enhanced multifocal lenses, due to winter flood damage at the company?s primary manufacturing site in Thailand, the company announced.

Eyemaginations has launched an eye-care app, called LUMA Vision Simulator, for use on the iPad. The new app aims to help doctors present complex information on common eye diseases to their patients in an engaging, easy?to?understand manner

EMRlogic Systems and Kowa Optimed have officially released activEHR 2012, a new electronic medical record (EMR) platform that has Kowa's imaging software embedded in it.

Transitions Optical Inc. has introduced an online resource to serve as an guide to meeting the needs of today?s growing minority populations. The site explains the reasons to focus on culturally diverse patients and provides a step-by-step guide to success, including tools and education offered through the Transitions Cultural Connections program

Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, DC, ruled in March to allow Aspex patent infringement litigation against Marchon Eyewear, Revolution Eyewear, and others in Miami, Fla.,

The next time you go to a baseball game and hear some invective about the umpire and his vision, consider how Burton Worrell, OD, of San Jose, CA, has tried to make the world a better place for baseball, one umpire and baseball player at a time.

Optometry Times, the leading source of optometric news, has established a presence on Twitter at https://twitter.com/#!/OptometryTimes and Facebook at www.facebook.com/#!/OptometryTimes.

As aides to eye-care professionals, paraoptometrics can use their clinical expertise to prevent patients from committing a myriad of contact-lens wearer "crimes," including wearing the same pair of disposable contact lenses for months at a time, rewetting lenses in their mouths, or growing a bacteria colony in their lens cases.

An evolution in glaucoma therapy is underway, shifting from a reliance solely on medication and surgery, to a greater understanding of disease pathology and risk factors in the conversion of ocular hypertension to glaucoma.

A well-designed National Institutes of Health trail has found that the use of steroids in the treatment of bacterial keratitis did not affect vision and raised no safety concerns.

Bausch + Lomb has signed an agreement to acquire ISTA Pharmaceuticals for about $500 million, the companies jointly announced March 26.

Studies have confirmed that good nutrition may have both preventive and therapeutic benefits for the eyes and body, but for ocular health specifically the advantages seem more likely to occur when eating wisely is a lifelong habit rather than a response to a disease.

The connection between pregnancy and the eyes may not be obvious, but several ocular changes, such as dry eyes or declines in IOP, can occur during pregnancy.

A recent analysis of three clinical trials has provided further evidence that a supplement of pure vitamin A combined with an omega-3 rich fatty acid diet can slow vision loss in adults with the common forms of retinitis pigmentosa.

Telemedicine offers a number of patient benefits, and the exchange of clinical information enhances the delivery of patient care.

The availability of effective treatment for exudative age-related macular degeneration has placed an onus on optometrists to be more aggressive in following AMD patients in order to provide timely referral when anti-VEGF treatment becomes indicated.

Since 1993, Dr. Weiberg, who practices optometry full time at The Eclectic Eye in Memphis, has patrolled the streets of Memphis as a volunteer officer.

Recent results from analyses performed by investigators in the Steroids for Corneal Ulcers Trial focusing on patients with Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection showed that, just as in overall study population, adjunctive corticosteroid use did not affect treatment outcomes or safety.