Ophthalmologists are medical doctors who specialize in treating the eyes. Optometrists have less training and specialized education, but now provide most primary eye care in the United States, ...

Minnesota is well known for setting high standards in health care with world-class institutions establishing key quality benchmarks for medical standards that are followed globally. This tradition of ...

According to May 2020 numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are 36,690 working optometrists across the country. BLS does not keep ophthalmologist employment data separate from other ...

Groups representing optometrists and ophthalmologists have been butting heads in state legislatures for years over the scope of optometrists’ practice. Vermont is home to the most recent skirmish.

Minnesota optometrists are seeking legislative approval to prescribe oral antiviral medications and administer injections around the eye. Ophthalmologists oppose the expansion, citing patient safety ...

Overall access to ophthalmologists improved from 2014 to 2024, according to a research letter published in JAMA Ophthalmology ...

This past November, a patient asked optometrist Kaitlin Soracco to remove a bulge of skin on her eyelid. Such skin tags can be excised right there in the office using procedures Soracco studied and ...