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		<title>SVS conducts free vision evaluations for Junior Olympians</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The AOA Sports Vision Section (SVS) conducted free vision evaluations Aug. 1-2 for 200 of the athletes competing in the 2010 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) Junior Olympic Games in Hampton Roads, Va., thanks to a generous sponsorship grant from Vistakon®, Division of Johnson &#38; Johnson Vision Care, Inc. The program, co-chaired by Steven Hitzeman, O.D., [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromaoa.org&amp;blog=7939388&amp;post=1225&amp;subd=newsfromaoa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteers needed for eye care mission in Jamaica</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter your profession — eye care provider, student, lawyer, construction worker, or anything at all, a humanitarian project just may be what the doctor ordered.  Registration is open for Great Shape! Inc.’s newest project, iCare.  Last year, volunteers fit an 80-year-old woman with a pair of glasses for the first time. Tears rolled down [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromaoa.org&amp;blog=7939388&amp;post=1223&amp;subd=newsfromaoa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AOA Takes Push for Health Care Law’s New Children’s Vision Benefit to HHS Secretary</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outreach to Federal Agencies Follows Optometry’s Successful Inclusion and Patient Access Gains   Although the new national health care reform law &#8211; most commonly referred to as the Affordable Care Act &#8211; was approved by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in late March, the Washington, D.C. battles over health care reform are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromaoa.org&amp;blog=7939388&amp;post=1183&amp;subd=newsfromaoa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AOA Coding Resources available</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following resources are available to AOA members through the AOA’s Clinical and Practice Advancement Group: AOA.org/Coding features a ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ section for members-only, providing questions asked by AOA members and the answers provided by AOA volunteers and staff. AskTheCodingExperts@AOA.org offers AOA members the opportunity to e-mail their coding question and have it answered [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromaoa.org&amp;blog=7939388&amp;post=1215&amp;subd=newsfromaoa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SC Mission 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From left, Mike Wood, O.D., and Jackie Rivers, executive director of the South Carolina Optometric Physicians Association, observe Chip Robertson, vice president of Robertson Optical Laboratories, as he fits a participant for eyeglasses at SC Mission 2010. This was the first year that vision screenings and eyeglass fittings were provided.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromaoa.org&amp;blog=7939388&amp;post=1212&amp;subd=newsfromaoa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Survey shows patients prefer health care plan packages</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are among life’s perfect matches? With life more hectic and complicated than ever, a new WellPoint survey asks Americans about pairings—those that work, those that don’t, and the things they’d like to combine into one package to simplify their lives. When it comes to combining the many services in their lives, Americans expressed a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromaoa.org&amp;blog=7939388&amp;post=1173&amp;subd=newsfromaoa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AOA, FDA warn of dangers of circle lenses in NYT article</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  A front-page New York Times article last month reported on the dangers facing “circle lens” wearers. “Lady Gaga’s wider-than-life eyes were most likely generated by a computer, but teenagers and young women nationwide have been copying them with special contact lenses imported from Asia. Known as circle lenses, these are colored contacts&#8230;that make the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromaoa.org&amp;blog=7939388&amp;post=1163&amp;subd=newsfromaoa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AOA, AAO release joint statement on circle lenses</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The AOA Contact Lens and Cornea Section and American Academy of Optometry Section on Cornea, Contact Lenses and Refractive Technologies released a statment regarding their concerns over cosmetic “circle” contact lenses. Following are excerpts from the statement: “&#8230;Contact lenses are considered safe for the correction of vision when appropriately fitted by licensed eye care providers. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromaoa.org&amp;blog=7939388&amp;post=1161&amp;subd=newsfromaoa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recognize the value of staff during Paraoptometric Recognition Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The AOA Paraoptometric Section (PS), with the support of the AOA, has designated Sept. 12-18, 2010, as Paraoptometric Recognition Week. Now in its eighth year, the recognition week is designed to honor paraoptometrics for their dedication to the patients they serve and to the profession of optometry. During Paraoptometric Recognition Week many optometric professionals will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromaoa.org&amp;blog=7939388&amp;post=1158&amp;subd=newsfromaoa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ACCORD study finds therapies slow diabetic eye disease progression</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In high-risk adults with type 2 diabetes, researchers have found that two therapies may slow the progression of diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease that is the leading cause of vision loss in working-age Americans. Intensive blood sugar control reduced the progression of diabetic retinopathy compared with standard blood sugar control, and combination lipid therapy with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromaoa.org&amp;blog=7939388&amp;post=1146&amp;subd=newsfromaoa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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