May 15, 2018

Features

Dry Eye

All About Osmolarity

This biomarker can be a significant help for dry eye testing and monitoring.

Four Steps to a Simple—and Effective—Dry Eye Screening

Don’t be intimidated by the complexity of the science. This is a service any OD can perform.

Managing Dry Eye for the Long Haul

Specific actions and lifestyle changes can optimize the treatment of this chronic disease and provide lasting relief.

Mixed DED: A Chimera in Your Chair

What is it and how can you diagnose and manage patients who have it?

Sjögren’s, Dry Eye and You

Ocular symptoms can precede systemic ones by a decade. Here’s how you can spot it early and manage its symptoms.

Glaucoma

Glaucoma: A Primary Care Crusade

Investing your knowledge and energy is all it takes to get your practice glaucoma-ready.

Optometric Study Center

Managing Uveitis With Steroids and Biologic Agents

The latest developments for this condition are based on underlying immunologic mechanisms. Here’s what that means for your practice.

Systemic Disease

Systemic Disease Rising to the Surface

Keep an eye out for findings that might implicate these conditions during your anterior segment examination.

Departments

Chairside

Leisure, OD-style

Come on, doc. It’s springtime! Time to have some fun.

Clinical Quandaries

A Calculated Risk

Not every patient will succeed with presbyopic IOLs, but judicious patient selection and education can help you improve their chances.

Coding Connection

Documenting for the Long Haul

You’ve got to get it right the first time when coding for long-term medication use.

Cornea and Contact Lens Q & A

Concentrate on Povidone-iodine

Its standard of care has been in place for decades, but a lower concentration could provide steady results with less toxicity.

Diagnostic Quiz

Through the Grapevine

Outlook

That’s News to Me

Late-breaking reports on research, general interest stories and product launches, on our website every day.

Retina Quiz

Tel Me What You See

A patient’s fundus shows signs of an underlying disease.

Review of Systems

The Dusky Side of Hypertension

Although uncommon, pheochromocytoma may present with ophthalmic signs.

The Essentials

Allergies: A Glitch in the Matrix

Pollen, dust and dander are harmless. But the body treats them as threats. Why?

Through My Eyes

Optometry’s Well: Far From Dry

We are only treating 2% to 9% of all patients with DED. How can we improve those numbers?

Urgent Care

What Lies Beneath

Thickness is a bad thing when it signifies this underdiagnosed condition.