Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In January, the New Hampshire Senate received SB 440, a bill that would expand optometry’s scope of practice in ...

Imagine finding a small bump on your eyelid and asking the optometrist you’ve seen for the last decade to check it out. You’re told it’s benign and removal is relatively simple. Your relief doesn’t ...

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- A battle between optometrists and ophthalmologists over the kinds of eye surgery that can be performed in Oklahoma played out in the state Legislature on Wednesday. The House and ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - A proposal put forth by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulations seeks to allow optometrists to perform “low-risk” optometric procedures. This legislature ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Many Illinois doctors are arguing that the state’s optometrists shouldn’t be allowed to perform procedures that are surgical in nature. The Department of Financial and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Proposed legislation in Wyoming would allow certain noninvasive procedures within the optometry scope of ...

This past November, a patient asked optometrist Kaitlin Soracco to remove a bulge of skin on her eyelid. Such skin tags can be excised right there in the office using procedures Soracco studied and ...

Imagine you live in a rural Arkansas community with limited access to health care. While there aren't any medical specialists based in your county (or even the surrounding counties), your town does ...