Optometry

• Perceptual learning may improve visual function in people with central vision loss

• Primary Care Optometry News, March 2013
• 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 »

• New concepts in wavefront aberrometry may help further optimize lens prescriptions

• Primary Care Optometry News, March 2013
• 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 »

• Optical devices have high rate of usage in patients with AMD

• Primary Care Optometry News, December 2012
• Patients with age-related macular degeneration found prescribed optical low vision devices to be useful, and they used the devices consistently over a...More »

• US health, justice officials target EHR fraud in letter 
to health CEOs

• Primary Care Optometry News, December 2012
  Adil Daudi, JD
• 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 »

• Look beyond a patient’s chronological age


• Primary Care Optometry News, October 2012
  Alfred A. Rosenbloom Jr., OD, MA, DOS, FAAO
• 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 »

• Low vision care should be provided by low vision specialists

• Primary Care Optometry News, June 2012
  Richard J. Shuldiner, OD, FAAO
• 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 »

• Look beyond physical limitations when caring for elderly patients

• Primary Care Optometry News, June 2012
  Alfred A. Rosenbloom Jr., OD, MA, DOS, FAAO
• Attitudes of professionals and of the general public toward the elderly are very similar. In 1969, Dr. Robert Butler coined the term “ageism”...More »

• Today's primary care OD can provide low vision care more easily

• Primary Care Optometry News, March 2012
  Scott A. Edmonds, OD, FAAO
• 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 »

• Researcher: Consider reading addition in young people with reduced near vision

• Primary Care Optometry News, March 2011
• 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 »

• Reading additions likely to benefit low vision pre-presbyopes

• November 23, 2010
• 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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