Prescription Medications Can Increase Your risk Of Complications During Cataract Surgery Some prescription medications can increase your risk of complications during cataract surgery. Prescriptions for an enlarged prostate are a known risk factor for Floppy Iris Syndrome. Floppy Iris Syndrome can lead to a number of different problems after cataract surgery. The iris (the colored eye [...]
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Childrens Eyes Need UV Protection to Prevent Blinddness
Categories: Cataracts, Childrens Eye Care, Fort Collins Eye Doctor, Fort Collins Optometrist, Macular Degeneration
Do your child a favor when they visit their optometrist for back to school eye exam this year. Discuss sunwear protection with the eye doctor. Lifetime doses of UV radiation from the sun are associated with nuclear sclerosis. This is a type of cataract where the lens yellows then turns brown similar to plastic left [...]
Counterfeit Flu Drugs Online
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The U.K. Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson recently warned against buying flu drugs over the Internet expressing concern about potentially dangerous counterfeit drugs.US Customs agents have intercepted a shipment of Tamiflu entering the United States that was vitamin C capsules packaged as Tamiflu.and had been sold over the Internet. The World Health Organization believes [...]
FDA Asleep at the Wheel on Ozurdex Eye Drug?
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The FDA has approved the new drug Ozurdex from Allergan to treat macular edema that results from a retinal vein occlusion. The treatment of retinal vein occlusions has few options and has been controversial in the past. Careful reading of the information posted by Allergan to date leads one to wonder why the drug is [...]
Genetic Eye Disease Testing Aids Optometrists
Categories: Eye Diseases, Fort Collins Eye Doctor, Fort Collins Optometrist, Vision Insurance, Vision Service Plan -VSP
Research on eye genes that cause or predispose individual to eye disease is a fast growing area which will probably find it’s way into your eye doctors office in the next 5-10 years. Most genetic tests are not perfect in the sense they are not diagnostic of an eye disease, but they frequently tell optometrists [...]
Cataract Prevention at NASA
Categories: Cataracts, Eye Diseases, Eye Nutrition, Eye Symptoms, Eye Vitamins, Fort Collins Eye Doctor, Fort Collins Optometrist, Vision Insurance, Vision Service Plan -VSP
NASA and the National Eye Institute have been working together to develop a non-invasive method to measure very early development of cataracts and monitor any progression. This is important to astronauts receiving higher daily dose of radiation, especially on a long mission such as the future Mars flight, but there are great potential applications for [...]