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TFOS Part 4: Nutrition and ocular surface health

TFOS Part 4: Nutrition and ocular surface health

Dr Azadeh Tavakoli and Sarah Farrant continue the TFOS summary series with an insight into nutrition and ocular surface health...

Effective strategies for myopia management

Effective strategies for myopia management

Fiona Anderson and Tina Arbon Black consider the challenges faced by practitioners when prescribing myopia management...

The impact of harmful substances on eye health

The impact of harmful substances on eye health

In the first of a short new series looking at the impact of lifestyles on eye health, we invited Dr Sunni Patel to evaluate how harmful substances can impact the eye...

Optometric practice: The natural home of dry eye (3) & Diagnostic tear tests (2)

Optometric practice: The natural home of dry eye (3) & Diagnostic tear tests (2)

This third article by Andrew Price discusses ocular surface staining agents, slit-lamp signs, their relevance and how to make an accurate dry eye diagnosis...

Communication and accessibility in optical practice

Communication and accessibility in optical practice

Maryna Hura discusses the potential communication barriers for patients with learning disabilities and patients on the autism spectrum...

Metastatic tumours to the eye

Metastatic tumours to the eye

Madison Woods, Harrison Fellheimer, Thomas Catapano and Dr Carol L Shields outline the eye care professional’s role in identifying and referring ocular tumours...

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