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		<title>VISUAL clinical trials seeking patients for enrollment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 06:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investigators are now enrolling patients into two VISUAL Clinical Trials, Phase III double-masked, placebo-controlled clinical trials evaluating the safety and efficacy of the investigational use of a biologic compound in patients with non-infectious intermediate, posterior, or pan-uveitis. The study drug is currently U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved in the United States for treating other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromaoa.org&#038;blog=7939388&#038;post=3974&#038;subd=newsfromaoa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Location, location, location: analysis is essential when starting a practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 15:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Chad Fleming, O.D., AOA Practice Advancement Committee I remember the day I started second-grade. It was the day I rode my bike to school for the first time, and it was the day I think my mom cried from when I left until I came home. Starting anything new brings with it many mixed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromaoa.org&#038;blog=7939388&#038;post=4042&#038;subd=newsfromaoa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An optometrist’s guide to Sjögren’s syndrome</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 14:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert E. Prouty, O.D. Dry eye syndrome is commonly seen in optometric practices. Nearly 10% of the U.S. population has signs or symptoms of dry eye. A wide range of treatment options are available. However, dry eye has varied causes and severities. As a result, it can be difficult to classify after an initial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromaoa.org&#038;blog=7939388&#038;post=4037&#038;subd=newsfromaoa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan Optometric Association rejects vision plan effort to limit full-scope optometric care</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 12:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By an overwhelming 6 to 1 margin, the Michigan Optometric Association (MOA) voted on May 9 to reject a plan backed by vision plans and their representatives seeking to gain control over how optometric care will be delivered in the state health insurance exchange now being created. Instead, MOA doctors support moving toward integrating vision and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromaoa.org&#038;blog=7939388&#038;post=4004&#038;subd=newsfromaoa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering SCCO professor emeritus Dr. Walter Chase</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 19:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walter Chase, O.D., professor emeritus at the Southern California College of Optometry (SCCO) passed away Feb. 27, 2011, after a lengthy struggle with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. Dr. Chase served as a faculty member from 1966 to 2004 and was a gifted teacher; his primary interests were ocular motility and optics of the eye. In addition, he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromaoa.org&#038;blog=7939388&#038;post=3888&#038;subd=newsfromaoa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AHAF campaign encourages comprehensive eye exams</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 20:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of May’s Healthy Vision Month, the American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF) vision programs—Macular Degeneration Research and National Glaucoma Research—kicked off its “See a Better Tomorrow” campaign, during which patients are encouraged to schedule a comprehensive eye exam and learn ways to protect against vision loss. The foundation’s website, www.ahaf.org/SeeABetterTomorrow, refers visitors to the AOA’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromaoa.org&#038;blog=7939388&#038;post=3886&#038;subd=newsfromaoa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conference workshops heading to ICO</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 19:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Optometry professionals and students from around the world are being offered an exciting opportunity to attend clinical workshops at the Illinois College of Optometry (ICO) as part of Advancing Optometry Worldwide, the World Council of Optometry’s conference. Delegates will receive free transport to ICO on the second day of the conference, taking place in Chicago [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromaoa.org&#038;blog=7939388&#038;post=3882&#038;subd=newsfromaoa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SCO announces $9.4 million building project to add new academic facility to campus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Southern College of Optometry (SCO) announced a $9.4 million building project that will provide its students with new classroom facilities and state-of-the-art instructional space on campus. The new building in midtown will be the college’s most ambitious undertaking since the construction of The Eye Center, the college’s public clinical facility, in 2002. “One of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromaoa.org&#038;blog=7939388&#038;post=3816&#038;subd=newsfromaoa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Multiple factors affect practice valuation process</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Quintero, O.D., Practice Advancement Committee There is no single commonly accepted method for valuing an optometric practice. No two practices are exactly alike. There are relative and extremely variable economic conditions within a community and the amount and type of local competition that affect the value of a practice. The location, decor, tenure, quality [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromaoa.org&#038;blog=7939388&#038;post=3798&#038;subd=newsfromaoa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PBA to host ‘Focus on Eye Health’ national summit</title>
		<link>http://newsfromaoa.org/2012/04/19/pba-to-host-focus-on-eye-health-national-summit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prevent Blindness America will host “Focus on Eye Health: A National Summit” in Washington, D.C., on June 20 to serve as a key launching pad for newly revised public health data on vision and eye health.  The event will provide updates of two very significant public health reports from PBA – “Vision Problems in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfromaoa.org&#038;blog=7939388&#038;post=3790&#038;subd=newsfromaoa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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