Optometry Job Board

President Benigno Aquino III has appointed his personal optometrist as a member of the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC)’s Optometry Board, Malaca�ang said on Thursday.

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OPTOMETRIST Dr. Vivian Sarabia yesterday took her oath before President Aquino as the newest member of the Board of Optometry of the Professional Regulation Commission.

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FULLERTON The Eye Care Center at Fullerton’s Southern California College of Optometry has a new clinic director.Kathy Frug�-Browder has been appointed to be responsible for the day-to-day functions at the center. Frug�-Browder has more than 20…

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Triangle - Cary, N.C. (July 3, 2010) eyecarecenter has announced that Dr. Kathryn Manton and Dr. Holly Adams have joined the optometry team.

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This month’s Ophthalmology journal includes surprising research from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary on the relation of body weight to the risk for glaucoma. Also, from researchers at the Tokyo Medical and Dental University, comes the first specific map of how the development of myopic maculopathy, an illness that afflicts many severely nearsighted people, predicts which patients will be …

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When he was 11 years old, Charles Brodt’s neighbor, Dr. John Simpson, asked if Brodt would come to work for him, sweeping thefloors of his optometry office after school and on weekends andholidays.

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The recent interest in “circle-tinted” contact lenses being sold on the Internet to obtain an anime-style look popularized by Lady Gaga in her “Bad Romance” music video is of concern to optometrists.

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YORKTOWN, VA. Authorities say a woman has been taken hostage at a York County Walmart. Sgt. Dennis Ivey of the York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office says the Walmart was evacuated early Tuesday afternoon after a man took a woman hostage in the store’s optometry department.

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By G Vinod PETALING JAYA: International University College of Technology Twintech’s (IUCTT) accreditation issue in relation to its Bachelor of Optometry course will be resolved soon. This was the assurance given by its deputy vice-chancellor Zulkiply Omar, who said the university was working closely with the Ministry of Higher Education to look into the matter. Some 156 students studying …

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VIRGINIA BEACH — A car plowed into a building in Va. Beach Wednesday morning. It happened around 11:00 a.m. at a building that houses Independence Family�Medicine and�Eye Specialists Ltd. at 813 Independence Blvd. The vehicle hit the side of the building and went into a waiting room of the doctor’s office. The driver was an optometry patient and she told police her foot slipped, sending her car …

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