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In January, the New Hampshire Senate received SB 440, a bill that would expand optometry’s scope of practice in the state to include minor eye surgeries, including several using lasers.The ...

Just as personal technology has changed dramatically since then, advances in optometric procedures, technologies, medications, and education have improved how we can care for our patients.

Ophthalmologists opposing this much-needed update to the state’s optometric scope of practice laws argue that optometrists aren’t sufficiently trained to perform the procedures being proposed.

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The Vermont office contacted 21 optometry schools requesting details about how their students were educated on advanced procedures. None of them responded.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- A battle between optometrists and ophthalmologists over the kinds of eye surgery that can be performed in Oklahoma played out in the state Legislature on Wednesday.<br><br ...

Optometry is a technical and complicated academic discipline that requires a professional doctorate in addition to a bachelor ...

A battle between optometrists and ophthalmologists over the kinds of eye surgery that can be performed in Oklahoma played out in the state Legislature on Wednesday. The House and Senate ...