Did you know? For many years it has been controversial whether having cataract surgery could accelerate the development of advanced macular degeneration. Some patients have cataract surgery, and not long after, develop worsening of their macular degeneration. Patients, of course, will often blame the cataract surgery. (I have at least [...]

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Did you know? Latisse® is the new prescription medicine for growing longer, thicker eyelashes. Patients are already coming to my office and asking for it. The aesthetician in my office has been using it for a number of weeks and already reports a noticeable difference in her eyelashes.
Latisse® was developed [...]

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Did you know? Botox® has been a mainstay in non-surgical facial enhancement for over a decade, and has proven safe and effective. Every year we find more ways to use it (for example, to raise the corners of a downturned mouth, or soften the lines around the mouth). In the [...]

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Joshua Silver, a British physicist, aims to make eyeglasses more readily available for poor people around the world. He has developed eyeglasses which can be adjusted by inflating or deflating a fluid filled lens. When the lens is properly adjusted, the adjusting syringe is removed and the glasses are ready [...]

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Brian Dunning is the host of one of my favorite podcasts, called Skeptoid.
Since not everyone listens to podcasts, Brian produced a video which encapsulates 
what you need to know to think critically. This ability is crucial to evaluating medical 
and nutritional claims, as well as claims you hear everyday in the media [...]

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Did you know? Singer Stevie Wonder was born prematurely, and developed an eye condition called retinopathy of prematurity, which left him blind. Eyes of pre-term babies do not have fully developed vascular systems. Sometimes the blood vessels will develop abnormally, leading to scarring and possible blindness. This condition was much [...]

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Did you know that cataracts are NOT removed with a laser? Ophthalmologists use many types of lasers for dozens of indications, but removing cataracts is not one of them! The state of the art in cataract removal today is called phacoemulsification, which uses a tiny probe to dissolve the cloudy [...]

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