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Why you shouldn't flush your contact lenses down the drain | Health

Tiny pieces of plastic are everywhere, and no group of people might be more familiar with this reality than contact lens wearers.

Survey assesses accessibility to eye clinic for people with low vision

NEW ORLEANS — A survey assessing accessibility to an eye clinic for people with visual impairment showed that there is still a need for improvement in terms of building design.

Johns Hopkins University: Eye Doctors Who Get Even Small Payments from Drug Companies More Likely to Prescribe Name-Brand Eyedrops | India Education | Latest Education News | Global Educational News

Little perks push docs to give brand name eyedrops

Eye doctors are more likely to prescribe brand name eyedrops after small perks from drug companies, research finds.

Financial incentives from pharma companies can influence how vision care practitioners prescribe branded eyedrops

In a lookback study of prescribing patterns among thousands of American ophthalmologists and optometrists, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers concluded that eye doctors who receive even small financial incentives from pharmaceutical companies, such as free food, sponsored travel to attend meetings or consulting fees, are up to twice as likely to prescribe the companies' brand name eyedrops for glaucoma instead of cheaper generic versions.