Outcomes of LASIK have continued to improve thanks to advances in technology and medical management.

The International Vision Expo and Conference East will celebrate its 25th year March 16-20 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York City.

Add this pair of items to the list of bad matches: laptop computers and patients' medical information.

Results from a study seem to dispel the myth that comfort and physiology may affect patients who are initiating contact lens wear.

Piggyback contact lenses are an effective and underutilized modality that has gotten an undeserved "bad rap" as an option for keratoconus patients.

For most of his adult life, Maurice Geldert, OD, was not a religious man.

Findings from a meta-analysis indicate that values from previous research on the minimum oxygen transmission (Dk/t) needed to avoid overnight lens-induced corneal swelling are gross underestimations.

An age-adjusted retinal nerve fiber layer thickness normative database for a proprietary ocular coherence tomography device gives clinicians a tool for assessing glaucoma risk from a patient's first visit.

Most meetings have a footprint, something that they can be identified with.

Recent commercial advances in contact lens optics have centered primarily on presbyopia correction, but the control of myopia progression with novel CL designs potentially represents an even bigger consumer market.

A multi-purpose solution for disinfecting contact lenses, based on a proprietary combination of alexidine dihydrochloride and polyquaternium-1 provided robust disinfection with a variety of soft contact lenses.

Knowing when and how to prescribe vision enhancement in patients with neovascular or wet age-related macular degeneration is the key to achieving the greatest possible visual improvements in the impaired population.

Biotrue and two other solutions with similar polyhexamethylene biguanide formulations did not alter corneal barrier function as compared with balanced salt solution and phosphate buffered saline controls.

Be prepared to describe your practice's goals during vendor meetings.

Pooled results from two prospective, multicenter, double-masked, placebo-controlled studies show a multimodal anti-allergy product, bepotastine besilate ophthalmic solution 1.5%, provides rapid and long-lasting clinically significant improvement in allergen-induced ocular itching.

Adding electronic medical records to a practice is a huge undertaking.

Though a busy man, Andrew Jones, OD, wouldn't give up dirt bike racing if you handed him a flourishing optometry practice for free.

If you were to ask 100 people, "Where's a great place to go for a family vacation?" it is a safe bet that the majority of them would reply, "Disney!"

Olopatadine hydrochloride ophthalmic solution 0.2%, a combination mast cell stabilizer and antihistamine, effectively relieves the itching associated with allergic conjunctivitis with once-daily dosing.

Results of an in vitro study of the potentially adverse effects of different topical glaucoma medications and preservatives showed that the preservatives polyquad and sofZia had much less toxicity when used in place of benzalkonium chloride in prostaglandin analog formulations.