Smoking and Eyes
Smoking, Vaping and Your Eyes Template Press Release
Customizable press release on “Smoking, Vaping and Your Eyes: What You Need to Know.”
Customizable social media posts on smoking, vaping and your eyes.
Great American Smokeout Content Messaging Resources
Use the content around the Great American Smokeout for your practice website, patient newsletters/emails, or on your social media channels to promote the observance, or smoking cessation year-round.
Great American Smokeout Website/Resources
The Great American Smokeout is an annual intervention event on the third Thursday of November by the American Cancer Society.
Fact Sheet: Vaping, Smoking & Your Eyes
This fact sheet details how smoking can be a major eye irritant and can cause vision loss.
AOA and AFOS: ‘Cut through the noise’ and empower licensed doctors of optometry to provide greater access to care to veterans
Eye care is the third-most requested health service by veterans at the VA—and doctors of optometry provide the majority of that care. Yet, as the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) considers new national standards of practice for more than 50 health professions at its facilities, optometrists are making a winning case for expanding their role at an understaffed VA and are galvanizing against baseless attacks from organized medicine, ophthalmology and a few unbending legislators.
3 coding questions cracked
Does Medicare allow you to bill fundus photos and an optical coherence tomography on the same day for two different diagnoses? The answer to this question, and more, from the AOA’s experts.
Born to serve: Active duty paraoptometric professionals provide critical care
September is Paraoptometric Appreciation Month, celebrating optometric practice staff around the country. Two paraoptometric professionals who provide eye care as active-duty veterans in the United States Armed Forces share their stories.