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OD’s Personal Experience with Amniotic Tissue Donation
When Lindsay Klumpp, OD, attended a BioTissue dinner presentation early in 2024, she had no idea she would soon become a tissue donor herself....
Theme for 2025 World Optometry Week Announced
The World Council of Optometry (WCO) announced the theme for World Optometry Week 2025—Eyes to the Future: Optometry Improving Global Wellness.
WCO’s World Optometry Week...
What’s Next for You in 2025?
It's that time of year! Whether you formalize them as goals or resolutions or keep them as thoughts—where do you hope to improve your...
CooperVision Launches Bright Fellows Student Recognition Program
CooperVision has introduced its Bright Fellows recognition program to help motivate third- and fourth-year optometry students to take full advantage of a wide range...
LifeLink® Tissue Bank Aligns with BioTissue’s Sharing Miracles to Promote Regenerative...
LifeLink Tissue Bank, a globally recognized non-profit leader in providing life-enhancing tissue allografts, made possible by the generosity of tissue donors and their families,...
Prevent Blindness Declares November as Diabetes-Related Eye Disease Awareness Month
Prevent Blindness has designated November as Diabetes-related Eye Disease Awareness Month. The initiative is aimed to let eye care professionals know how they can...
Dr. Michele Andrews and Dr. Jacquie Bowen: Doctors Share Myopia Management...
Jacquie Bowen, OD, FAAO, who will become president of the American Optometric Association at the next Optometry's Meeting in June 2025 in Minneapolis; and Michele...
Children in the Bronx Receive Free Eye Exams and Glasses Thanks...
In the U.S., one in four students has an undiagnosed vision issue. To overcome this, LensCrafters optometrists and team members recently came together to...
American Optometric Association Celebrates Paraoptometric Appreciation Month
The American Optometric Association (AOA) has begun preparing the industry for September’s Paraoptometric Appreciation Month, the only formal observance dedicated to honoring the practice staff that...
Optometry Giving Sight Kicks Off 2024 World Sight Day Challenge
To support its mission to eradicate uncorrected refractive error through the growth and expansion of optometry around the world, Optometry Giving Sight (OGS) has...
