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Primary Care Optometry News, March 2013
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Eye movement behavior and certain spatial properties that have adapted to vision loss may be evidence of the plasticity of the visual system, even late in...More
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Primary Care Optometry News, March 2013
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Research advances in the area of wavefront aberrometry have yielded new understanding of visual optics, the branch of optics concentrated on the role of...More
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Primary Care Optometry News, December 2012
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Patients with age-related macular degeneration found prescribed optical low vision devices to be useful, and they used the devices consistently over a...More
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Primary Care Optometry News, December 2012
Adil Daudi, JD
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On Sept. 24, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius issued a joint letter on...More
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Primary Care Optometry News, October 2012
Alfred A. Rosenbloom Jr., OD, MA, DOS, FAAO
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Aging is a universal phenomenon involving significant sensory, motor and cognitive changes in response to our advancing years. However, we do not all age...More
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Primary Care Optometry News, June 2012
Richard J. Shuldiner, OD, FAAO
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The article, “Today’s primary care OD can provide low vision care more easily” (March 2012, page 16), by Scott A. Edmonds, OD, FAAO,...More
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Primary Care Optometry News, June 2012
Alfred A. Rosenbloom Jr., OD, MA, DOS, FAAO
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Attitudes of professionals and of the general public toward the elderly are very similar. In 1969, Dr. Robert Butler coined the term “ageism”...More
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Primary Care Optometry News, March 2012
Scott A. Edmonds, OD, FAAO
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Low vision care has undergone a dramatic change over the past 10 years. These changes have opened the door for more of this care to move out of the...More
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Primary Care Optometry News, March 2011
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Results from two studies presented at Academy 2010 in San Francisco showed the benefits of reading additions in pre-presbyopes with low vision and the...More
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November 23, 2010
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SAN FRANCISCO - Reading addition benefits young adults and children with reduced accommodation and reduced near viewing distance due to low vision, a...More
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