Meet our star of 20/20 Magazine’s Pro to Pro. I am thrilled to announce that Linda Conlin, our very own 20/20 Magazine Pro to Pro Managing Editor, has won Vision Monday’s Most Influential Women in Optical award. Linda won in the mentor category because she inspires all of us in the optical industry. She has dedicated her career to educating ECPs. As a writer of educational articles in 20/20 Magazine and Review of Optometric Business as well as Women in Optometry, her articles and CE courses consistently rank among the most viewed. Congratulations, Linda!
Tears are best known as an expression of emotion, both happy and sad, but as a fluid secreted by the body, tears contain specific proteins that can be early indicators, or biomarkers, of systemic disease in other body parts. Researchers have found biomarkers in tears for diabetes, cancer, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s diseases. A study published earlier this year by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), Tears as the Next Diagnostic Biofluid: A Comparative Study between Ocular Fluid and Blood, compared proteins found in blood plasma with those found in tears.