The Eye Care Blog

Genentech Inc. has applied for U.S. (FDA) approval to market its drug Lucentis for the treatment of wet, age-related macular degeneration, the leading causes of blindness in the elderly.

Dr. Mark Gorovoy, an eye surgeon from south Fort Myers in Florida, is radically changing the way corneal transplants are being done around the world, while cutting down on healing time and reducing the risk of future visual injuries.

Survey by IntraLase Corp. (Nasdaq:ILSE) shows many U.S. adults with defective eyesight are worried about seeing in an Emergency. Vision care preparedness goes beyond extra pair of glasses and contacts to permanent corrective options using enhanced LASIK procedures.

Lasik Vision Institute, Florida eye surgery company, allegedly misrepresented the cost of corrective laser eye surgery in newspaper ads.

LASIK eye surgery has become hugely popular in the last decade as a surefire way to get rid of glasses. However by middle age (soon after 40) most people (including LASIK treated patients) develops presbyopia, the inability to read or see things up close. In middle ages, even LASIK treated patients have to go looking […]