1999 Issue Archive
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January 1999
Features
- Rx Blunders that Raise Red Flags in the Optical Lab
- Taking Automated Refractometry Beyond the Bells and Whistles
- 62 Vital Links for Web-Savvy Surfing
- Growing a Winner in the Bluegrass State
- 10 Lessons for All Time from the Start-ups of the ‘90s
- The Causes and Consequences of High Blood Pressure
- Misdiagnosed Glaucoma Confirmed as Morning Glory Disc
- OnLine CE: How to Recognize Six Common Causes Of Contact Lens Intolerance
Departments
- Calendar
- Chairside
- Comanagement Q&A
- Cornea & Contact Lens Q&A
- Digital Grand Rounds
- Editor's Page
- Glaucoma Grand Rounds
- Letters & E-Mail
- Malpractice Quiz
- News Review
- Product Review
- Retina Quiz
- Technology
- Therapeutic Forum
February 1999
Features
- Seeing Photochromics in an Whole New Light
- Play This Tough 18 to Assess Your Efficiency
- Staking a Claim on Eyeglass Alley
- Making Sense of Corneal Topography
- Alternative Medicine Comes Out of the Closet
- Four Ways to Deliver a Healthy Pediatric Practice
- Tough Dry Eye Cases That Don't Go by the Book
- The Far Reaching Effects of Thyroid Disease
- When a ‘Benign’ Growth Causes Visual Field Loss
- OSC: How to Recognize Six Common Causes Of Contact Lens Intolerance
- Chairside
- Comanagement Q&A
- Cornea & Contact Lens Q&A
- Digital Grand Rounds
- Editor's Page
- Glaucoma Grand Rounds
- Letters & E-Mail
- Malpractice Quiz
- News Review
- Product Review
- Retina Quiz
- Technology
- Therapeutic Forum
March 1999
Features
- Online CE: New Treatments to Relieve Ocular Allergies
- 4th Annual Comanagement Report
- What You Should Know About the New Multifocal IOL
- Why the A-Scan Is Your Key To Better Cataract Care
- 9th Annual Case Report Challenge
- The Body and The Eye: Multiple Sclerosis
- Driving Toward Efficiency: Part 2
- Optical Equipment: Get Your Own Lab Without All Your Own Costs
- Ophthalmic Lenses: Give Add-Ons Another Try.
- Practice Profile: A High Roller Who Plays it Solo in Las Vegas
- Contact Lenses: 6 Tricks That Can Make Specialty Fits Work
Departments
- Chairside
- Comanagement Q&A
- Cornea and Contact Lens Q&A
- Digital Grand Rounds
- Editor's Page
- Product Review
- Glaucoma Grand Rounds
- Malpractice Quiz
- Managed Care Update
- Refractive Surgery Update
- Retina Quiz
- Technology
- Therapeutic Forum
- News review
April 1999
Features
- What's the Best Medicine for Ulcerative Keratitis?
- Dry Eye: To Plug or Not to Plug?
- Is the Time Right for Extended Wear?
- Is a Bandage Lens the Answer for Corneal Healing?
- How the Eye Responds to Corneal Damage
- Case Report: Fuch's Confounds Uveitis Diagnosis
- Case Report: Laser Treats Corneal Erosion
- Thar's Gold in Them Thar Files!
- Take a Second Look at Polarized Lenses
- Practice Profile: Two O's Make Their Mixed Marriage Work
- How to get Reimbursed for Retinal Photography
Departments
- Chairside
- Comanagement Q&A
- Cornea and Contact Lens Q&A
- Digital Grand Rounds
- Editor's Page
- Glaucoma Grand Rounds
- Managed Care Update
- Technology
- Therapeutic Forum
- News review
May 1999
Features
- Optometric Study Center: What You Should Look for When LASIK Goes Astray
- National Panel: Salary Survey: Employer's Vise Squeezes O.D.s Three Ways
- Ophthalmic Lenses: Does Your Wholesale Lab Measure Up?
- Practice Profile: Riding a High Tide In the Low Country
- The CVS Epidemic: How You Can Make Computers Easier on the Eyes
- Contact Lenses: Boomers and Bifocals; They're Not Your Father's Rx
- Therapeutic Drugs: Using the Best Weapon Against Bacterial Keratitis
- The Body and The Eye: When Autoimmune Disease Threatens the Retina
- Case Report: Field Loss a Red Flag for Pituitary Adenoma
Departments
- Editor's Page: For Real Doctors Only
- Chairside: Too Much Stuff, Even for Me
- Guest Editorial: Professional Myopia
- Managed Care Update: Alphabet Soup and Diabetics
- Technology Review: Cyber-Snooping
- Law Review: Can Dr. Smith Fire Cheryl?
- Comanagement Q&A: Laser-Pointer Injuries
- Cornea & Contact Lens Q&A: Post-LASIK Fits
- Glaucoma Grand Rounds: Field Loss Hints Malignancy
- Refractive Surgery Update: New Options for Presbyopia
- Retina Quiz: Trusting the Initial Clinical Impression
- Therapeutic Forum: Cidofovir for Conjunctivitis
- Digital Grand Rounds: Spontaneous 'Gushing'
- News Review
- Product Review
June 1999
Features
- 4th Annual Managed Care Survival Kit
- How to Live With or Without the Beast of Managed Care
- How to Win a Third-party Audit
- How to Give Third-Party Plans The Ax
- Calculate Your Chair Costs In These 5 Easy Steps
- Practice Profile: Vision Plans Don't Bind this Hands-On Approach
- Research Report: What's on the Cutting Edge Of Eye Research
- Contact Lenses: Three New Ways of Looking At Presbyopic Prospects
- The CVS Epidemic: How to Ease the Symptoms Of Dry Eye in Computer Users
- The Body and the Eye: Heart Disease: Where You Fit In Facing the Threat
- Case Report: Solving the Diagnostic Puzzle Of Congenital Nystagmus
- Editor's Page: An Ax Only Swings One Way
- Chairside: From the Halls of Watsamatta U?
- Technology Review: More Wallop for Windows
- Law Review: At Will Employees, Part II
- Comanagement Q&A: Don't Hesitate to Communicate
- Cornea & Contact Lens Q&A: The Difficulties of Diabetes
- Glaucoma Grand Rounds: Lesion Compounds Diagnosis
- Retina Quiz: More than Abrasion To 'Cloudy' Vision?
- Therapeutic Forum: Continuing Role for Beta Blockers
- Digital Grand Rounds: Systemic Symptoms, Ocular Complaint
- News Review
- Product Review
July 1999
Features- 5th Annual Glaucoma Report
- Neuroprotection: The Next Wave In Glaucoma Management?
- Optometric Study Center: Controversies in Glaucoma Care
- Practice Management: How to Rediscover the Person in the Patient
- Contact Lenses: Are You Missing These Telltale Signs of Non-Compliance?
- Diagnostic Instruments: How to Take the Doubt Out of Blood Pressure Screening
- The CVS Epidemic, Part III: How You Can Resolve The Pain And Strain of Computers
- The Body and the Eye: How to Detect, Treat and Contain Infectious Diseases
- Case Report: Irritated Eyes Reveal Rare Thyroid Dysfunction
Departments
- Editor's Page: Board Certification: Think Outside the Box
- Chairside: Golf: It's What Makes Optometry So Grand
- Managed Care Update: Narrowed Payment For Narrow Angles?
- Medicare Q&A: Different Testing at Different Offices
- Technology Review: Making Your Move to the Internet
- Law Review: What Business Structure Suits You
- Cornea & Contact Lens Q&A: LASIK on a Graft?
- Glaucoma Grand Rounds: Post-op Hyphema Leads to IOP Rise
- Refractive Surgery Update: Beyond Topography-Guided Ablation
- Retina Quiz: Vessels, Plaque Key Diagnosis
- Therapeutic Forum: Bleb Infection After Trabeculectomy
- Digital Grand Rounds: 'Bags' Under Eyes, Point to Diagnosis
- News Review
- Product Review
August 1999
Features22nd Annual Instrument Report
- Contact Lenses: Small Steps to Big Rewards On Your Multifocal Fits
- The CVS Epidemic, Part IV: You Have the Cure, So Let Your Patients Know It
- Corneal Atlas, Part I: How to Fight Back When Infections Attack
- Computers & Technology: How to Get Your PCs To Talk to Each Other
- Practice Profile Series: A Private-Pay Renaissance In a Managed Care Metropolis
Departments
- Editor's Page: CVS: Optometry's Sleeper Subspecialty
- Chairside: Summer Advice: More Than Just Sunscreen
- Managed Care Update: Doctors and the State Of the Unions
- Technology Review: Making Your Move To the Internet: Part II
- Comanagement Q&A: Screen More Patients For Glaucoma
- Cornea & Contact Lens Q&A: What Lenses Are OK After RK?
- Glaucoma Grand Rounds: IOP Rise Associated With Stress
- Retina Quiz: Retinal Lesion in a Spy's Eye
- Therapeutic Forum: Toxin Treatment for Chronic Lid Spasm
- Digital Grand Rounds: The Boy with the Non-Stop Tears
- News Review
- Product Review
September 1999
Features
- Our Children's Vision Crisis
- Cover Story: Our Myopic View of Children's Vision and the Rx for It
- Contact Lenses: 9 Indications For Kids And Contact Lenses
- Optometric Study Center: How to Diagnose Vision Problems in Preschoolers
- Dispensary Management: The 8 Principles Of Perfect Eyewear
- Practice Profile: Practice on the Fast Track Doesn't Leave Patients Behind
- Diagnostic Instruments: A Better Way To Do BIO
- Corneal Atlas: Inflammations: How to Tame The Angry Eye
- Case Report: Dilated Exam Reveals Choroidal Tumor
Departments
- Editor's Page: Our Children are Waiting
- Chairside: Find the Artiste Within
- Managed Care Update: Fall Legislative Preview
- Technology Review: Taking it to the Max?
- Law Review: A Bankruptcy Primer For O.D.s
- Comanagement Q&A: How to Manage a Patient with Intacs
- Cornea & Contact Lens Q&A: Treating Herpes in HIV Patients
- Glaucoma Grand Rounds: Normal Tension Glaucoma
- Refractive Surgery Update: 8 Things to Consider When Comanaging
- Retina Quiz: Is HIV to Blame for This Condition?
- Therapeutic Forum: Cyclosporin May Treat Dry Eye
- Digital Grand Rounds: Poor Vision and Pigment Streaks
- News Review
- Product Review
October 1999
Features- 5th Annual Refractive Surgery Report
- Is Your Comanagement All That It Can Be?
- Give your refractive surgery practice this check-up.
- Cover Story: Here Come the Hyperopes
- Ophthalmic Lenses: Can You Pass This Optics Exam?
- Therapeutics: 10 Myths and Misperceptions About Therapeutic Drugs
- Corneal Atlas: Part III: From Abrasions to Burns, How to Manage Corneal Injuries
- Case Report: Retinopathy Arises From Sickle Cell Trait
- Contact Lenses: Get Over the 'Specialty' Thing With Soft Toric Lenses
- Staff Management: How to Make 'Change' A Not-So-Dirty Word
Departments
- Editor's Page: Shifting Gears
- Chairside: I'm Not Darwin
- Managed Care Update: Keep Track of Plans
- Technology Review: The Health-Care Chain
- Law Review: Workplace Harassment
- Comanagement Q&A: Put Out the Fire of Iritis
- Cornea & Contact Lens Q&A: A Problem After LASIK
- Retina Quiz: Mountain Climber's Dilemma
- Therapeutic Forum: Traumatic Hyphema
- Digital Grand Rounds: Common Symptom, Surprising Result
- News Review
- Product Review
November 1999
Features
- OnLine CE: How to Diagnose and Manage Headaches
- Contact Lenses: The 7 Secrets Of RGP Success
- Corneal Atlas Part IV: How to Detect and Deal With Dystrophies and Degenerations
- Case Report: Noncompliance Compounds Glaucomatous Vision Loss
- Ophthalmic Lenses: What's Your Favorite PAL?
- Retirement Planning: There's Just One Way Out: What's Your Exit Plan?
Departments
- Editor's Page: Is This the Real Deal?
- Chairside: You Are What You Drive
- Managed Care Update: Is That 'Vision' or 'Medical'?
- Technology Review: 11th-Hour Y2K Fix
- Comanagement Q&A: Phakic IOLs
- Contact Lens Q&A: Hope for Corneal Transplant Patients
- Glaucoma Grand Rounds: High IOP in LASIK Candidate
- Retina Quiz: Diffuse Ocular Inflammation
- Therapeutic Forum: Stomp Out the 'Sands of Sahara'
- Diagnostic Quiz: Itching, Redness Pose Quandary
- News Review
- Product News
December 1999
Features
- Irvin Borish: The Most Influential Optometrist of Our Time
- Most Influential Optometrists Of the 20th Century
- 13th Annual Income Survey: Income at Y2K is A-OK
- How the Techno-Revolution Will Change Your Practice
Departments
- Editor's Page: So Many Contributions, so Little Recognition
- Chairside: Season's Greetings from an Optometric Assistant
- Comanagement Q&A: Problems with Corneal Transplants
- Cornea and Contact Lens Q&A: Is There Life After LASIK?
- Glaucoma Grand Rounds: Trauma at Age 5 Leads to Elevated IOP at Age 75
- Retina Quiz: Asymptomatic Patient Exhibits Unilateral Subretinal Nodules
- Diagnostic Quiz: Symptoms and Fundus Findings Signal Serious Pathology
- News Review
- Product Review