Public Health
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194BHVI’s Myopia Calculator Updated with New Options and Progression Curves
January 17, 2022 By Nathan Dobbie, Head of Change and Communication, Brien Holden Vision Institute The latest evidence, as well as user...
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1.0KMyopia Onset and Progression in Young Adults: ‘It Happens’
sponsored content January 17, 2022 By Mark Bullimore, MCOptom, PhD, FAAO We know a lot about parental history and myopia, but what...
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379GMAC’s Social Media Campaign Broadened My Reach Educating Patients and Parents
January 17, 2022 By Rupa Wong, MD I receive so many questions daily from parents, even other physicians, who are worried about...
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217The 2021 Year in Review for Myopia Management
sponsored content January 3, 2022 By Neal Wolff, Vice President and Head of Marketing, Vylmua This year, awareness and understanding of myopia...
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463Treating Both Pediatric Dry Eye and Progressive Myopia
January 3, 2022 By Judith Flanagan, PhD, Brien Holden Vision Institute Reduced prevalence of dry eye in children, fewer subjective symptoms, and...
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300Prescribing Orthokeratology for Adult Patients
sponsored content December 15, 2021 By Andrew D. Pucker, OD, PhD, FAAO Attracting adult orthokeratology patients simply starts by making them aware...
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730Experiencing SightGlass Vision’s Spectacle Lenses
December 15, 2021 By Joe Rappon, OD, MS, FAAO, and Kylvin Ho, OD, FIAOMC As children continue to develop myopia at earlier...
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1.2KEnvironmental Influences on Myopia Development
sponsored content December 15, 2021 By Noel A. Brennan, MScOptom, PhD, and Mark A. Bullimore, MCOptom, PhD Outdoors, sunlight, near work, education,...
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1.2KDangers of High Myopia
sponsored content November 15, 2021 By Craig Brawley, OD, FAAO; Kevin Chan, OD, MS, FAAO; Millicent Knight, OD, FAAO, FAARM, FNAP; Pamela...
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1.9KGrowth Curves of Myopia-Related Parameters to Monitor Chinese Children
November 1, 2021 By Dean Psarakis, B.Optom, Senior Research Optometrist, Brien Holden Vision Institute With increasing rates of myopia worldwide, particularly within...
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954Is Myopia Prevalence Related to Outdoor Green Space?
November 1, 2021 By Dwight Akerman, OD, MBA, FAAO, FBCLA There is substantial evidence indicating that environmental factors, including time outdoors and...
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1.0KMyopia Management in the Philippines: An International Perspective
November 1, 2021 By Carmen Abesamis-Dichoso, OD, MAT, FIACLE, FPCO, FAAO As it was then a novel idea, eye care practitioners and...
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2.0KMy U.K. Experience with Myopia Management
November 1, 2021 By Nick Dash, BScHons (Bio), BScHons (Optom), MCOptom, Dip. SVA Myopia is more than diopters. It is more than...
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1.7KHow Has COVID-19 Changed the Epidemiology of Myopia?
October 15, 2021 By Joshua Foreman, PhD; Mohamed Dirani, PhD, MBA, GAICD; and Arief Tjitra Salim, BEng Almost two years since the pandemic...
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989The Myopia App Study
September 1, 2021 By Dwight Akerman, OD, MBA, FAAO, FBCLA Smartphone use is a relatively new behavior among youth. It became increasingly...
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2.3KEverything ECPs Need to Know About Myopia Management and Where to Get It
sponsored content August 16, 2021 By Carla Mack, OD, MBA, FAAO, FBCLA; Kelly Vaupel, MS; R. Alan Landers, OD, MS, FAAO The...
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1.7KWhat a Parental Control App is Teaching Us About Eye Health Care Service Utilization
July 15, 2021 By Joshua Foreman, PhD; Arief Tjitra Salim, BEng; Dilara Koca, MPH; and Mohamed Dirani, PhD, MBA, GAICD The planoApp...
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1.6KA Not-So-Distant Mirror: Myopia in China
sponsored content December 15, 2020 By Maria Liu, OD, PhD, FAAO, Associate Professor of Clinical Optometry UC Berkeley, School of Optometry With...
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1.7KA ‘Prevention and Control’ Implementation Plan for Myopia Management in China
Due to the drastic increase in both the prevalence and severity of myopia in China, on August 30, 2018, eight national departments...
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3.0KCOVIDOPIA or COVIDNOPIA: Myopia Progression During COVID-19
October 15, 2020 By Thomas Aller, OD, FBCLA Collaborator, BHVI This was supposed to be the year of vision or optometry’s year,...
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4.3KWhy Do So Few People Know about the Potential Pathology Related to Myopia?
Sponsored Content August 17, 2020 By Daniel Press, OD, FCOVD As eye care professionals, when you see one patient with complications that...
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4.9KA Wake-up Call to the Long-term Threat of Myopia
Myopia progression is irreversible, so when this treatment window closes, the higher risk of vision loss remains for life.
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6.1KThe Vision Care Sector’s Call to Action
Myopia is not just a ‘vision anomaly’ that is simply treated with glasses.
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Millicent Knight, OD, FAAO, FAARM, FNAP
Millicent Knight, OD, FAAO, FAARM, FNAP3.9KGiving Myopia A Louder Voice
This is an exciting time for myopia management.
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6.9KThe Global Myopia Awareness Coalition: What It Is and Why It Matters
Tens of millions of myopic children around the world need our help.
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2.5KMyopia: The Time to Act is Now
Many do not understand the significance of myopia to potential ocular health issues.
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2.3KUnderstanding the Characteristics of People at Greater Risk
Research has uncovered some characteristics of people at greater risk.
