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• Changing patterns of global childhood blindness should be reassessed: Experts

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Dec 8 (ANI): A team of eye specialists from India, Malawi, and Tanzania have revealed that patterns of childhood blindness have been changing and there is a need to reassess the strategies for recognition and treatment of the disease in developing countries.According to Paul Courtright (Kilimanjaro Centre ...
  19 hours ago

• Now High Definition Technology For Eyesight

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 581
  Ophthalmic surgeons in the United Kingdom have begun a unique procedure, with which patients are now being retrofitted with a highly innovative artificial lens that provides the users with the benefits of high definition vision. The all new artificial lens is made entirely from silicone, which known to quite light ...
  2 days ago

• Reasons why health plans are called ‘dishonest’

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 144
  Nearly a third (30%) of respondents believe the recent demonization of health - insurance companies is due to the fact that few people understand the mechanism of health insurance . Robert Palmer, CEO, Dean Health Plan, believes the biggest reason insurers are seen as dishonest “is because politicians are ...
  4 days ago

• Eyes to get high definition artifical lens

  
  Gadget News and Reviews — Authority: 165
  Surgeons have managed to work on a new kind of artifical lens that can be implanted into the eyes using a standard procedure for cataracts, where these new artifical lens will offer high definition capability as they can be fine-tuned for focus a few days after the operation. that translates to vision that is sharper ...
  5 days ago

• Vision Harvest 2009: Free Cataract Surgery Program Reveals a Health Care System in Crisis

  
  The LASIK Blog — Authority: 119
  As I stated in my previous blog post, November 25 was the inaugural Vision Harvest free cataract surgery day at River Drive Surgery Center.  Twenty patients without insurance,or the means to pay, were provided free cataract surgery.  I promised to post interviews of many of these patients the day after their ...
  1 week ago

• Vision Harvest 2009 a Resounding Success: 20 Free Cataract Surgeries Performed

  
  The LASIK Blog — Authority: 119
  Wednesday, November 25 was the inaugural Vision Harvest free cataract surgery day at River Drive Surgery Center.  Twenty patients without insurance, or the means to pay, were provided free cataract surgery. These patients had some of the largest cataracts I have ever seen, something one might expect in a third ...
  1 week ago

• Nothing Worse Than A Blind Turkey

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 154
  Brother could you spare us a dime, we need $2,600 for our pet turkey to have it’s cataracts removed. Lyndsey Medeiros and her hubby adopted cataract debilitated Jerry and his mate from a Rhode Island farm a little while back  but sadly Jerry’s blurry vision prevents him from living a normal turkey lifestyle. The ...
  1 week ago

• Widespread Eye Conditions To Be Concerned Of

  
  $ucce$$-Team — Authority: 154
  Seeing a competent vision healthcare specialist is vital to pinpointing and executing the most reasonable course of therapy. Frequently, eye flaws can be treated or controlled in some ways. Together with nutrition and corrective eyewear, there are also surgical alternatives that may help to partially or totally bring ...
  1 week ago

• New N.F. hotel opening soon

  
  Niagara Falls Blog — Authority: 140
  From Buffalo Business First : With a nod to an elegant past, the Hotel Giacomo will welcome its first guests just before the Thanksgiving holiday week. By all accounts, the hotel’s opening is a significant moment in Niagara Falls history. It represents the rebirth of an architectural icon that dominates the ...
  1 week ago

• Cataract Laser Surgery, The Real Truth

  
  Sunglasses, They Make You Look Great! — Authority: 132
  cataract surgery There is a familiar misconception that primary cataract surgery is implemented using a laser. Nothing could be further from the truth. The latest and most successful procedure used to execute cataract surgery uses an ultrasound and a topical anesthetic, which promotes fast recovery. Lasers, ...
  1 week ago

• AMD Patients can benefit from cataract surgery and steroids

  
  Anabolic Steroids Blog - iSteroids . com — Authority: 142
  According to a study reported by this month’s Ophthalmology , the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (Academy) for evaluating benefits of cataract surgery for patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) at all stages of the disease, the steroid triamcinolone could prove beneficial ...
  1 week ago

• 11 Companies for Surgery Centers and Hospitals to Know

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 144
  Here is a list of 11 companies for surgery centers and hospitals to know. VMG Health — VMG Health provides valuation and financial advising services to the healthcare sector. The company’s core practice areas include business valuation, professional services valuation, transaction advisory services and joint ...
  1 week ago

• Vision through updates.

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 144
  Cataracts occur when the eye’s natural lens becomes cloudy with age. Cataracts don’t harm the eye but can progressively impair vision. Cloudy lenses can be removed and replaced with artificial lenses designed to correct a range of vision problems. With a variety of new replacement lenses on the market, it’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Light adjustable lenses. “… photosensitive silicone material, which when exposed to a low intensity beam of light, allows the surgeon to precisely change the power …”

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 131
  Calhoun Vision Inc, with offices located in Pasadena, California, has reported that it is developing “… light-adjustable materials technology in the field of ophthalmology.” More from a Release dated November 23, sourced from Calhoun Vision: … Using proprietary light adjustable ...
  2 weeks ago

• Great Response to Vision Harvest "Free Cataract Surgery" Program

  
  The LASIK Blog — Authority: 119
  SInce Fox New Yorks coverage last week of our Vision Harvest program we have heard from many in need of cataract surgery .  These patients are without health insurance and have no means to pay for this vision restoring procedure.  Many of their stories are heart breaking.  I am so looking forward to November ...
  2 weeks ago

• Premium IOL’s is it worth it

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 144
  Traveling over multiple Midwestern states, I ask surgeons what works for them in their practice, or what is a new problem for them today.  In the market, one common factor continually popping up from today’s surgeon is “ marketing ”. Many of the surgeons said that their patients sell the new IOL ’s for them ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cataract Removal

  
  Soulful Thoughts of Rachel — Authority: 121
  Tomorrow I will be accompanying my yaya (nanny) to the hospital for removal of cataract. It is her first time to have an operation. She is putting up a brave front but I know deep inside that she is scared. I keep reassuring her that everything will be fine. My husband and I will be [...]
  2 weeks ago

• AMA Optics Announces New Brightness Acuity Meter Documents Disabling Glare from Cataract

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 163
  AMA Optics announces a new Glare Tester for identification of those suffering from disabling environmental glare.source : www.topix.com
  2 weeks ago

• Mikes Operation And Other Things

  
  Outside - Looking In — Authority: 113
  I might as well start with the other things. The weather was so awful over the weekend, rain was falling in absolute sheets and the wind was howling. Our old sun room must know that it is going and was getting its own back on us. I was doing the daily Trivial Pursuit online and then remembered something I ...
  2 weeks ago

• Vision Harvest 2009 Featured on Fox Good Day New York

  
  The LASIK Blog — Authority: 119
  Dr. Sapna Parikh featured our Vision Harvest 2009 program this morning on Fox "Good Day New York" .  On November 25, 2009, doctors at the River DriveSurgery and Laser Center of Elmwood Park, New Jersey, will perform FREEcataract surgery during Vision Harvest 2009, for those that are uninsured andcan’t afford to ...
  3 weeks ago

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