by Ken DeRouchie | Dec 29, 2007 | Articles, Issue 06, Newsletter, Optometry, Practice Areas
Confusion About Eye Care Providers, Training, M.D. Status Survey Highlights Need for Education; Consumer Group Offers Tips, White Paper A survey commissioned by the National Consumers League finds that when it comes to eye care, many consumers – in Oklahoma and across...
by Ken DeRouchie | Dec 29, 2007 | Articles, Featured Optometry, Issue 06, Newsletter, Optometry, Practice Areas
Optometrists Anticipate ‘Boom’ in Eye Diseases as Baby Boomers Turn 60 – Save Your Vision Month Promotes Regular Eye Exams In a year where an estimated 2.8 million baby boomers will celebrate their 60th birthday, age-related eye diseases are becoming increasingly...
by Ken DeRouchie | Dec 29, 2007 | Articles, Featured Optometry, Issue 06, Newsletter, Optometry, Practice Areas
American Optometric Association Urges Americans to Take Proper Contact Lens Precautions to Protect Against ‘Fusarium Keratitis’ Doctors of optometry from the American Optometric Association’s (AOA) Contact Lens and Cornea Section urged contact lens wearers to take...
by Ken DeRouchie | Dec 29, 2007 | Articles, Dentistry, Issue 06, Newsletter, Practice Areas
Oral cancer is the 6th most common cancer in men and the 14th most common cancer in women. In the US, oral cancer will be diagnosed in an estimated 30,000 Americans this year and will cause more than 8,000 deaths. The disease kills approximately one person every hour....
by Ken DeRouchie | Dec 29, 2007 | Articles, Issue 06, Newsletter, Practice Areas, Veterinary
Avian Influenza (AI) — the bird flu — is a disease caused by a virus that infects domestic poultry and wild birds (geese and ducks and shorebirds). Each year, there is a bird flu season just as there is for humans and, as with people, some forms of the flu are worse...
