A one-page, five-question questionnaire, called the DEQ-5, accurately identifies patients with Sjögren's syndrome and other patient populations with dry eye.

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Healthy vision is vital for success in life, and it all begins with regular vision screenings during childhood-or it should. The level of inadequate vision care for children in the United States is significant.

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) can be an effective diagnostic tool that enables optometrists to examine the retina layer by layer. It also can offer quantitative data about the retinal nerve fiber layer. Some doctors believe that the biggest advantage of OCT is what it reveals about the vitreomacular interface.

Increasing market share for your practice includes an honest assessment of the benefits your practice brings to prospective patients. Consider their needs and preferences carefully to help you devise a value proposition that will make your practice their top choice.

Treating both the medical and vision complaints of existing patients, in separate visits, is a low-cost strategy that generates significant additional income and meets patients' needs for comprehensive eye care.

Results of a survey conducted by Transitions Optical reveal that women are significantly more likely than men to experience various eye conditions and vision problems and more likely to identify certain health and environmental factors as negatively affecting vision.

Teens with blindness or low vision face a greater number of hurdles as they transition to adult life. Making a successful transition can require not only academic training but also vocational, social, and personal development.

Bausch & Lomb (B&L) launched the Center for Patient Insights to increase access to unbiased industry information, trends, market research and insights for eye-care professionals (ECPs) across the country.

Prevent Blindness America is leading the effort to secure federal funding for programs that prevent blindness and preserve sight.

Bausch & Lomb Vision Care (B&L) is reintroducing its ReNu line of eye-care products to consumers and eye-care practitioners in an effort to both meet customers' needs and rejuvenate its product line.

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The FDA Dermatologic and Ophthalmic Drugs Advisory Committee has recommended the approval of bepotastine besilate ophthalmic solution 1.5% (Bepreve, ISTA Pharmaceuticals) for treating ocular itching associated with allergic conjunctivitis.

New spectral-domain optical coherence tomography technology allows visualization of the junction of the inner and outer segments of the photoreceptors. Assessment of the photoreceptor integrity line in eyes with and without disorders of the outer retina indicates it is a useful biomarker for photoreceptor impairment.

Besifloxacin ophthalmic suspension 0.6% (Besivance, Bausch & Lomb) was approved recently by the FDA for the treatment of bacterial conjunctivitis. Besifloxacin suspension is able to fight bacteria that are growing resistant to older anti-infectives.

Every online purchase of any new pair of Maui Jim sunglasses from www.mauijim.com through July 31 will result in the donation of a pair of new Maui Jim sunglasses to Unite for Sight, a non-profit group that has as its goal improving eye health and eliminating preventable blindness among severely impoverished people.

Switching patients to 1-day disposable contact lenses (CLs) may improve lens-wearing comfort for those who have seasonal allergic conjunctivitis, according to CooperVision.

A new device (TearLab Osmolarity System, TearLab Corp.) that measures the osmolarity of tears to aid in the diagnosis of dry eye disease has been given FDA 501(k) clearance and also has received a silver 2009 Medical Design Excellence Award (MDEA).

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Many optometrists are eager to open a new practice but want a partner. The groundwork for joining forces with someone includes doing your homework and not rushing the process.