Healthcare

“What color is this?” "Red." “What color is this?” “Green.” “I thought you said you were red-green colorblind?!” I’ve had this exchange of questions more times than I can count, which thanks to optometry school is at...

I was always curious as to why so many optometrists have Master of Public Health (MPH) degrees. I used to wonder, what does public health have to do with optometry? I've come to learn that the answer is probably more obvious than you may...

I remember that in middle school we learned the School House Rock song “I’m Just a Bill” which illustrated how a bill gets passed through Congress. I finally got to see much of the process in action, minus a talking and singing...

Unilateral pricing policy (UPP) of contact lenses has made recent headlines. Why is UPP good for optometry, and why should students bother to understand its importance to the profession? UPP is a policy implemented by many contact lens...

On July 1st, 2013, AOSA and Salus University, home to the Pennsylvania College of Optometry, marked the beginning of a new dimension to public health in optometric education by offering five $10,000 scholarships to optometry students...