March 15, 2025

Features

Diagnostic Skills & Techniques

Ease into Advanced Lab Techniques for Systemic Assessment

Integrating diagnostic testing into clinical practice empowers optometrists to enhance patient care by identifying and managing broader conditions through a comprehensive approach.

Myopia

Four Unanswered Questions in Myopia Management

As the condition evolves and grows, we help navigate the uncertainties you may experience.

How to Meet the Growing Demand for Myopia Management

As prevalence continues to rise, optometrists have a chance to advance their professional growth while making a lasting impact on their community.

Pharmaceuticals

Guidelines on Responsible Prescribing of Controlled Substances for Ocular Pain

Balancing pain relief and prudent precaution is a critical component of optometric practice.

GLP-1/GIP Receptor Agonists and Diabetic Retinopathy: What ODs Should Know

Learn how to discuss with patients the outcomes of the various trials surrounding these popular drugs’ effects on this condition.

Systemic Disease

From HEDS to ZEDS: Managing Herpetic Eye Disease

These landmark studies are changing the way optometrists approach this condition with oral antiviral therapy. Here’s how.

Departments

Advanced Procedures

Lipid Liftoff

Radiofrequency removal of xanthelasma is an effective therapy.

Chairside

Erase This from Your Vocabulary

It’s the scariest word in optometry.

Clinical Quandaries

A Touch of Gray

A genetic disorder might be the cause of this color change.

Diagnostic Quiz

Massive Trouble

A patient undergoing treatments for brain tumor presented with retinal changes. What is it and what’s the connection?

Ocular Surface Review

Blepharitis and Dry Eye: One and the Same?

We address the root cause of these conditions.

Outlook

A Weighty Problem

Semaglutide’s success at treating obesity and diabetes may put millions of people at risk for NAION. Is optometry up to the task?

Retina Quiz

Folding Under Pressure

Imaging found lesions that led to these undulations.

The Essentials

Papillary Problem

Identifying vitreopapillary traction can save a patient from an emergency department referral, as it may mimic more dangerous and life-threatening optic nerve edema or suspected papilledema.