The Cooper Companies, Inc. recently completed its acquisition of Sauflon Pharmaceuticals Limited in a transaction valued at approximately $1.2 billion, expanding CooperVision’s range of contact lens offerings.

Optometry Giving Sight invites the global eye care community to take part in the seventh annual World Sight Day Challenge throughout September and October 2014. World Sight Day is Thursday, October 9.

The World Council of Optometry (WCO) recently launched two new membership categories: individual and corporate membership.

Topcon Medical Systems recently introduced a wireless review station that can be used with the TRC-NW300 and TRC-NW8 non-mydriatic capture systems running IMAGEnet 5.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 501(k) clearance to Quantel Medical’s Optimus Fusion integrated laser platform.

Gulden Ophthalmics recently introduced Rowe OCT Model Eye, a solid-state tissue phantom that is used by clamping it to an instrument and initiating an OCT test.

Bascom Palmer Eye Institute has created a helpful checklist for parents, detailing signs and symptoms of pediatric vision problems to watch for.

The general feeling is that the eyeglass patient is much more profitable to a practice then the contact lens patient. Let’s look at this misconception in some detail.

Approaching dry eye from a systemic standpoint can potentially benefit patients in the long term and improve the quality of care we provide. Here are a few key considerations that should be made when assessing dry eye as a potential systemic symptom.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Eylea (aflibercept, Regeneron) injection for the treatment of diabetic macular edema (DME).

Representatives of the Union of America Eye Care Providers recently met with the Department of Justice’s Healthcare Anti-Trust Division to argue the organization’s position that the vision care plan industry’s policies have an anti-competitive affect on the vision care industry.

Our profession has had to fight for the privilege of caring for our patients with ocular disease. With optometry as a legislated profession, these battles have occurred in every state and, as a result, optometric practice acts vary widely. Ophthalmology does not have to endure such travails. Ophthalmologists can do pretty much whatever is in their purview, as is their right.

We all need it. Beyond this simple statement is a mile of commercial controversy with some prominent optometrists declaring that we must choose eye supplements containing all three carotenoids, including the two isomers of zeaxanthin-namely zeaxanthin (Z) and mesozeaxanthin (MZ). On face value, this seems reasonable. But has it been scientifically proven? No.

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is on track to begin publicly releasing information on industry-physician financial relationship through its new National Physician Payment Transparency Program: Open Payments website (go.cms.gov/openpayments) on Sept. 30.

Children across the country will be heading back to school over the next month, so make sure your patients are making a comprehensive eye exam a part of their children’s back-to-school routine.

To help give children a great start on a successful school year, Prevent Blindness offers free information and programs on the importance of healthy vision.

Attaining a higher level of education and spending more years in school have been linked to a greater prevalence and severity of myopia, according to a study recently published in Ophthalmology.

“You are the worst Yelper ever!” Have you ever wanted to reply to a user review with those words? I’m sure you have. Well, I do, and it feels great! It often is the most helpful and appropriate response you could make.