From dry eye to GLP-1s, this year's conference brought a variety of insights from key experts in optometry.
|Articles|June 23, 2017
Treating and diagnosing myopia
Andrew Morgenstern, OD, FAAO, sits down to talk myopia in children and adults, how to treat it, and how to go prevent it at the American Optometric Association’s Optometry’s Meeting in Washington, DC.
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Andrew Morgenstern, OD, FAAO, sits down to talk myopia in children and adults, how to treat it, and how to go prevent it at the American Optometric Association’s Optometry’s Meeting in Washington, DC.
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