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Parent Safety Alert! Teenagers May be Purchasing Eye Sight Damaging Laser Products Over the Internet The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found some unscrupulous Internet stores are selling laser products that are overpowered and can potentially cause eye damage and blindness if used in an improper manner. Some lasers approved as medical devices only [...]
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The National Eye Institute has completed a study last year (October 2008) on the treatment of convergence insufficiency and believes it has found a more effective eatment method. Convergence Insufficiency occurs when the eyes have trouble staying turned in and staying aligned for near tasks such as reading,computers games, and near crafts. This condition is [...]
Categories: Cataracts, Eye Diseases, Eye Nutrition, Eye Vitamins, Fort Collins Eye Doctor, Fort Collins Optometrist, glaucoma, Macular Degeneration
The leading causes of blindness in the U.S are diabetic related eye complications, glaucoma, and macular degeneration. Cataracts are generally listed as the number one cause but this is somewhat misleading. Cataracts effect in excess of 20 million people but most cataracts are treatable with modern surgical techniques and artificial lens implants. The complication rate [...]
Categories: Eye Diseases, Fort Collins Eye Doctor, Fort Collins Optometrist, Macular Degeneration
The National Eye Institute does love it’s acronyms. CATT is one of the more recent ones-the comparison of AMD Treatments Trials. Translated that means there is going to be a study on the two drugs already being widely used to treat macular degeneration, one of the top leading causes of blindness. Lucentis was actually approved [...]