ON THE NET

Places to point your patients for the latest glaucoma information.

Glaucoma Foundation

Visitors to the Glaucoma Foundation's Web site can link to Young and Under Pressure (YUP). YUP is an e-mail support group for young people suffering from glaucoma. It has been so successful that the Foundation recently expanded the program by adding YUP_Parents, which is for family members of young people with glaucoma.

Visit www.glaucoma-foundation.org.

Glaucoma Research Foundation

At the Glaucoma Research Foundation (GRF) Web site, your patients have access to a 30-page booklet, Understanding and Living with Glaucoma. Your patients can view the booklet online by going to GRF's home page and clicking the link "Booklets and Fact Sheets."

Visit www.glaucoma.org.

Wills Eye

Each Wednesday, the Glaucoma Service and Foundation at Wills Eye Hospital holds chat sessions so glaucoma patients can interact with a glaucoma specialist. Richard Wilson, M.D., who developed the sessions, moderates them each week. The sessions are summarized and posted on the site each Thursday.

Visit www.wills-glaucoma.org.

AAO

The American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) has teamed with Medem to provide your patients with glaucoma information. Your patients can view the AAO's glaucoma information by typing the word glaucoma into the search box on the upper-left corner of Medem's home page.

Visit www.medem.com.

If you've discovered a Web site or service that's been useful to you in practice or at home, we'd like to know about it. E-mail your comments to John Osborn at osbornjs@boucher1.com, or call him at (215) 643-8055.