Optometrists need to take on a greater role in helping patients identify and control hypertension

The American healthcare system is failing eye care

Advances in femtosecond laser assisted cataract surgery (FLACS) providing better results, fewer complications, and higher rates of patient satisfaction.

So, what are your patients saying and sharing about you on Twitter these days?

You’ve probably heard the term “hive mentality” before. Many times its meaning does not carry a positive connotation.

Contact lens retail site Hubble launched last Tuesday, offering contact lens wearers daily disposable contact lenses at a lower price and planning to drive patients into OD offices for exams.

Can we talk a few minutes about ultra-widefield imaging (UWF) without another kind of UWF (ultra-widespread fighting) breaking out?

In honor of Halloween, you’re getting an updated batch of staff horror stories.

Dr. Scott Schachter discusses four updates to demodex blepharitis, from diagnosis to management

Here are a couple of tips our practice uses to celebrate the Halloween fun safely and successfully.

Stick to your usual prescribing habits is the advice given by contact lens experts in the wake of the recent recall of peroxide lens care system Peroxiclear by Bausch + Lomb.

An artificial retinal prosthesis allows patient with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) to locate objects, detect movement, and improve orientation and mobility skills.

I am again reminding you that optometry has a renewed purpose in the management of our cataract and refractive patients.

In the past when you thought of Jennifer Aniston, the girl-next-door character Rachel from Friends would come to mind.

A 37-year-old male came to my office for the first time in 2014 for a diabetes eye examination at the insistence of his primary-care provider (PCP).

Roth spots are hemorrhages in the retina with white centers. They occur in a wide variety of systemic conditions that are associated with retinal hemorrhages.

I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. My dad worked in the tech industry; he’s an electrical engineer by training.

The possibility that a given garden-variety case of viral conjunctivitis is a burgeoning epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (EKC) is enough to intimidate any physician.

Dress for success. We’ve heard this tired old cliché for years. Most offices have a written dress code for staff, but does that dress code also apply to the doctors?