Source: wiley .com

Purpose:  To provide a systematic review of the published studies pertaining to the lifestyle modification, dietary, nutritional and vitamins supplements for preventing occurrence or halting deterioration of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

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Source: visionmonday .com

In a newly released study of career patterns among new optometry school graduates, VSP Vision Care surveyed optometry students during their third year in school along with their first year in practice, and discovered that 72 percent of respondents during their third year in school preferred to start their careers through private practice ownership, but only 15 percent of respondents became an independent eyecare professional practice owner in their first year of practice.

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Source: richmond-dailynews .com

There’s nothing like a visit to the optometrist to make you feel old.
I’m already wearing trifocals – for distance on top, computer in the middle and reading on the bottom. I was afraid I would soon need quadrifocals: distance, computer, texting and reading. But it turns out my long-distance vision is actually improving.

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Source: newsfromaoa .org

After hundreds of AOA doctors and students launched a nationwide grassroots campaign aimed at honoring the service and sacrifice of a respected colleague and fallen American hero, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) officially dedicated the Major Charles Robert Soltes, Jr., O.D. VA Blind Rehabilitation Facility Jan. 25 on the campus of the VA Long Beach Healthcare System in Long Beach, Calif.

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Source: visionhelp.wordpress .com

Many years ago, much earlier in my career, an 18 year-old by the name of Stephanie was referred to me by a colleague for management of convergence insufficiency. She had previously seen an ophthalmologist who prescribed +1.00 reading glasses to help her with close work. My optometric colleague recognized that she had CI, and she experienced what we thought was a successful outcome at the time.

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Source: newsfromaoa .org

Iggie’s Telescope, a new children’s book written and illustrated by Kristopher T. Hubbard, O.D., follows the adventures of Iggie the Eyeball as he works diligently to buy his first telescope.

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Source: newsfromaoa .org

“We are bringing vision correction into the 21st century,” said Ron Blum, O.D., president and CEO of Roanoke, Va.-based PixelOptics, Inc. Dr. Blum believes a new breed of composite lens technology used in his new PixelOptics line of emPower! eyewear – the world’s first electronic focusing eyeglasses – will “revolutionize” presbyopic vision correction over the coming months and similarly advance other fields of vision care over the coming years.

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Source: imedicalapps .com

Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine is regarded as one of the premier textbooks for physicians through to medical students.

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Source: coolest-gadgets .com

The recently concluded CES saw thousands of gadgets, gizmos and even services offered to the masses, and it is virtually impossible to cover all grounds, even if you have a staff count like Engadget. The Mobileye driver safety solution is one nifty gadget that was paraded on the CES showfloor, where this unique solution intends to help drivers avoid and mitigate collisions, while enhancing the overall driver experience.

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Source: osnsupersite .com

With the evolution of biomicroscopy and the ability of the optical coherence tomography platform to consistently and efficiently store, measure and compare useful images, retina specialists should begin considering shifting away from the slit lamp to OCT biomicroscopy, a speaker here said.

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Source: mddionline .com

Medicine today is “very much siloed,” observes Daniel Kraft, MD in a TEDMED presentation. Typically, a hospital has separate departments for oncology, ophthalmology, hematology, urology, neurology, and so forth. This departmentalized structure inhibits dissemination of information across disciplines. In addition, medicine is somewhat insulated from the rapid clip of technological change seen in the consumer space.

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Source: connecttristates .com

Forty-million Americans wear contact lenses.

In the not so distant future, contacts may do a lot more than just help you see.

What if the lenses could look inside of you to diagnose, monitor and even treat disease? Sound far-fetched? Well, it may not be too far away.

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Source: college-optometrists .org

With smokers doubling their chance of some sight problems, optometrists and opticians are being encouraged to play an important role in one of the UK’s longest standing and most successful health campaigns.

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Source: medicalnewstoday .com

Researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have found that vitamin D reduces the effects of ageing in mouse eyes and improves the vision of older mice significantly. The researchers hope that this might mean that vitamin D supplements could provide a simple and effective way to combat age-related eye diseases, such as macular degeneration (AMD), in people.

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Source: visionmonday .com

For the last month of 2011, the outlook of independent ECPs toward their overall business saw a significant improvement, according to the latest edition of Jobson Optical Research’s Optical Business Barometer (OBB). The Barometer rose 0.3 from November’s index of 3.5, to reach 3.8 in December; its highest reading since March 2011 when the rating was 3.9.

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Source: visionmonday .com

Transitions Optical, Inc. has named the winners of the 2011 Transitions Partner Labs, Most Valuable Partner (MVP) Lab of the Year award. Aspen Optical of Mesa, Ariz., won in the small/medium lab division, and Pech Optical of Sioux City, Iowa, won for the large lab division. Both were honored during a ceremony at Essilor’s National Sales Meeting in Miami Beach, Fla., on Jan. 5.

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Source: gizmag .com

There certainly wasn't a shortage of smart eyewear at CES this year. Shortly after our encounter with Vuzix SMART Glasses we ran across these formidable looking SmartGoggles from Sensics. The Natalia Immersive SmartGoggles provide an ideal platform from which to deliver a powerful immersive gaming experience and as a result, they take up a considerable amount of space - "SmartHelmet" might be a more accurate description. But the bulkiness is quickly forgotten when you look at the hardware that's packed under the shell of this 360-degree 3D gaming and entertainment video rig.

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Source: bmj .com

Aims
To determine whether prognostic immunological profiles predict the severity of keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS) in patients with Sjögren's syndrome (SS).

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Source: bmj .com

Objective
To evaluate minor salivary glands and labial mucous membrane graft in patients with severe symblepharon and dry eye secondary to Stevens–Johnson syndrome (SJS).


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Source: springerlink .com

To compare the efficacy of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) with mitomycin C (MMC) in preventing pterygium recurrence when used as an adjuvant following pterygium excision with conjunctival autograft. Low-dose MMC combined with conjunctival autograft is an effective treatment for preventing recurrence following pterygium excision, but safety, cost, and availability limit its use in developing countries. There is a paucity of data on the efficacy of 5-FU when used in Africa as an adjuvant to conjunctival autograft following pterygium excision.

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Source: springerlink .com

Dear Editor
We are advisors to TASER International Inc. (TASER), and we thank Dr. Sayegh et al. for their presentation of the eye injury case associated with an incident involving a TASER electronic control device (ECD) [1]. The ECD has largely supplanted pepper spray and batons as it tends to reduce arrest-related injuries by about 2/3 and is now used over 800 times per day [2,3].

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Source: nih .gov

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Traditional ultrasound imaging systems for ophthalmology employ slow, mechanical scanning of a single-element ultrasound transducer. The goal was to demonstrate rapid examination of the anterior and posterior segment with a three-dimensional (3D) commercial ultrasound system incorporating high-resolution linear probe arrays.

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Source: healthaffairs .org

The rising tide of diabetes has an unacceptable human and societal toll. Rates of all major forms of diabetes are increasing at enormous individual and societal cost: 8.3 percent of the US population is afflicted today, and financial costs reached $174 billion for 2007. A major cause of blindness, renal failure, amputation, and cardiovascular disease, diabetes also increases the risk of cancer and dementia and more than doubles individual health care costs.

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Source: liebertpub .com

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of 24-h peak intraocular pressure (IOP) on the progression of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and the 24 h time points that best predict peak pressure.

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Source: iol .co .za

The University of KwaZulu-Natal’s optometry department has been bolstered with a software donation of R600 000 from Digital Optometry.

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Source: ibtimes .com

The newly-discovered eye medications, human embryonic stem cells, have created striking changes in the vision of two legally blind women. After getting injections of the said cells, the two patients experienced some improvements after losing their sight due to a fatal eye disease.


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Source: modernmedicine .com

This year’s Operation Eyesight will find the surgeons, physicians, anesthesiologists, and clinic professionals of Minnesota Eye Consultants donating their time and skills to perform eye surgery, at no cost, to patients from Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN, greater Minnesota, and Wisconsin on Feb. 4 and March 10.

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Source: medicalnewstoday .com

A disease-fighting protein in our teardrops has been tethered to a tiny transistor, enabling UC Irvine scientists to discover exactly how it destroys dangerous bacteria. The research could prove critical to long-term work aimed at diagnosing cancers and other illnesses in their very early stages.

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Source: eurekalert .org

A new gene therapy method developed by University of Florida researchers has the potential to treat a common form of blindness that strikes both youngsters and adults. The technique works by replacing a malfunctioning gene in the eye with a normal working copy that supplies a protein necessary for light-sensitive cells in the eye to function. The findings are published today (Monday, Jan. 23) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences online.

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Source: scoop .co .nz

Tony Han, optometrist from Specsavers Mt Maunganui is about to start trials on a potential treatment for age-related macular degeneration. If the trails are successful, the new treatment could be a breakthrough in managing New Zealand's leading cause of blindness in the over 50's[1].

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