All COVID-19 Articles
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1.8KResearch ReviewImpact of COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Lifestyle on Myopia
December 1, 2022 By Dwight Akerman, OD, MBA, FAAO, FBCLA, FIACLE The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global COVID-19 pandemic in...
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1.3KClinicalThe 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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4.9KClinicalHow 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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2.3KLatest Myopia NewsVTI’s NaturalVue Sustains Business for ECPs During Pandemic
June 7, 2021 ATLANTA – U.S.-based medical device company and producer of the NaturalVue (etafilcon A) Multifocal 1 Day Contact Lenses, Visioneering Technologies,...
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4.0KResearch ReviewProgression of Myopia in School-Aged Children After COVID-19 Home Confinement
February 1, 2021 By Dwight Akerman, OD, MBA, FAAO Home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a significant myopic shift...
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3.7KPatient CommunicationE-Learning: How to Help Students and Parents
November 1, 2020 By Nathan Bonilla-Warford, OD, FAAO, FCOVD, FIAOMC If your practice is anything like mine, you have seen an increase...
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7.1KProducts & ServicesResponsible and Safe Myopia Management During a Pandemic
Sponsored content Oct. 15, 2020 By Richard Hom, OD, PhD The traditional delivery of eye care, like myopia management, has changed because...
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4.5KPublic HealthCOVIDOPIA 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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3.7KResearch ReviewIncreasing Screen Time During the Coronavirus Pandemic Could Accelerate Childhood Myopia
September 1, 2020 By Dwight Akerman, OD, MBA, FAAO Medical researchers reviewed the impact of increased digital device usage arising from COVID-19...
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7.4KClinicalMyopia Management in the Era of COVID-19
June 1, 2020 By Melanie Frogozo, OD In late 2019 a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and its associated disease COVID-19, emerged in China...
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3.5KPractice ManagementCaring for the Apprehensive Patient
Sponsored content May 25, 2020 By Roxanne Achong-Coan, OD, FAAO, FIAOMC, FSLS Starting a myopia management regimen is often stressful for children...
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3.6KPractice ManagementAnticipate Patient Loyalty in the COVID-19 Environment
May 11, 2020 By Nicholas Despotidis, OD, FAAO, FCOVD, FAAOMC For myopia management, the COVID-19 pandemic presents some significant challenges. The first...
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3.9KPatient CommunicationMaintaining Myopia Management with ‘Kindness and Understanding’ During this Pandemic
May 5, 2020 By Robert Burke When Sheila Morrison, OD, MS, FSLS, begins treating a child newly diagnosed with myopia, she expects...
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4.6KLatest Myopia NewsSingapore Health Tech Company Plano Gives All Singaporean Families the Premium Version of Its Eye Health App for Free
May 4, 2020 Singapore – Local health tech company Plano Pte Ltd today announced that all Singaporean families will be given the...
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5.6KPractice Management
Post Shutdown, a Pediatric Practice Prepares to Reopen
April 27, 2020 By Robert Burke Carlee Young, OD, FAAO, hopes soon to be doing what many ODs around the country are...
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8.8KProducts & ServicesPrioritize Your Eyes in the Time of COVID-19
Sponsored content April 21, 2020 By Carol Alexander, OD, FAAO Head, North America Professional Relations, Johnson & Johnson Vision It’s hard to...
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2.3KLatest Myopia NewsLatest Wave of Survey Results Show Most Planning for Reopening, but Not All
April 20, 2020 Nearly 92 percent of eye care professionals (ECPs) said that they do plan to reopen according to the results...
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11.5KImplementationSafely Seeing Patients in the Face of COVID-19
April 20, 2020 By Robert Burke When COVID-19 forced the closing in March of the Pennsylvania practice where he works, James Deom,...
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9.8KPractice ManagementA Practice Works to Outlast COVID-19
April 13, 2020 By Robert Burke It takes a lot of smarts and strength to build a practice that can last 28...
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2.0KLatest Myopia NewsFifth Wave of Survey Finds Many ODs are Rescheduling Patients for May, June
April 9, 2020 In the fifth wave of the Jobson Optical Research coronavirus survey, most respondents said that they are making efforts...
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2.3KLatest Myopia NewsMyopia Management During the COVID-19 Crisis
April 9, 2020 Euclid Systems Corp. will cover “Communicating with Concerned Parents During the COVID-19 Crisis” in a Facebook Live presentation on...
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16.7KClinicalGrappling with Children’s Screen Time During the COVID-19 Outbreak
April 6, 2020 By Joshua Foreman, PhD Mohamed Dirani, PhD, MBA, GAICD Thanveer Ali, BSocSci (Hons) The COVID-19 pandemic continues to create...
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3.2KLatest Myopia NewsInterest in Telemedicine and Preparing Now for Reopening Among Key Findings of New Survey
April 1, 2020 As of March 31, governors in 30 states and the mayor of Washington, D.C., had issued stay-at-home orders. While...
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5.7KEditor’s PerspectiveIs Myopia a Pandemic?
April 1, 2020 By Dwight Akerman, OD, MBA, FAAO Chief Medical Editor, Review of Myopia Management Many experts have written that the...