unemployment and uninsured rates; inadequate educational systems, transportation and community resources; few optometrists who largely practice in retail settings and no ophthalmologists specializing in glaucoma,” Rhodes said. “We have developed and tested a novel ...
“In Kentucky and Louisiana, where scope of practice laws are broad enough for optometrists to treat patients — while these laws haven’t been spelled out — ODs can order medicine for hypertension, diabetes and...
administered systemically to treat a broad range of bacterial infections, may cause double vision (diplopia) in some patients. Researchers at the Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU), launched the first investigation of this problem after the Nat...
The American Academy of Ophthalmology, headquartered in San Francisco, is the world's largest association of eye physicians and surgeons — Eye M.D.s— with more than 32,000 members worldwide. Eye health care is provided by the three "O's" – ophthalmologists, optome...
NeurEYE research team leads AI-supported dementia detection programme with Scottish optometrists Hattie Hayes January 23rd 2025 Article Predictive software will use retinal imaging to identify patient risk for Alzheimer and other neurodegenerative diseases ...