Avoid Sports-Related Eye Injuries With Protective Eyewear
Just over half of the roughly 15 million high school students in the U.S. participate in a sport. Unfortunately, many will suffer sports-related eye injuries: More than 40,000 such injuries occur each year, and younger athletes make up a large percentage of them. Sports-related eye injuries run the gamut, from corneal abrasions to more serious […]
New Cataract Replacement Lens Raises the Standard IOL To a Higher Level
It happens gradually—a steady loss of clarity as images blur and colors fade, as if you’re looking through a dirty window. This is the visual world of a person with advanced cataracts, a slow motion descent into blindness that eventually disrupts even the most routine activities of life. But this kind of impaired vision can […]
Don’t Let a Toy-Related Eye Injury Spoil Your Christmas!
Among words like “joyful,” “magical” and “heartwarming” used to describe a young family’s Christmas morning, there may be one other appropriate description— “pandemonium.” As the whirlwind of wrapping paper shredding and delighted squeals subsides, it’s altogether tempting to shoo the kids out to play with their new toys while the adults recuperate with a cup […]