The Eye Care Blog

They’re amber-tinted contact lenses, made for athletes by Nike. They are growing in popularity among area baseball players, both amateurs and professionals.

IntraLase Corp. has received approval from Taiwan to sell the company’s femtosecond laser in that country, the company said Tuesday.

As to recognize Cataract Awareness Month in August, Eye M.D.s want to debunk the myths about cataracts and remind people they don’t have to live with vision loss from cataracts.

Doctors diagnosed in the Mt. Jewett child was bilateral sporadic retinoblastoma, a condition that caused cancerous tumors in both his eyes. If they had been left untreated or the condition was caught too late, however, specialists believe that Collin could have lost his eyes and likely would have died from the disease by his [...]

A 40-member medical team from Australia, including 22 Viet kieu (Overseas Vietnamese), has arrived in Viet Nam to perform free eye operations for poor disadvantaged rural people.

Ousman Njie, a one-year-old boy, is in dire need of assistance to go for medical eye treatment in Dakar, Senegal.

Patients on drugs to treat prostate enlargement should inform their eye surgeon about the medications before eye surgery, several U.S. groups advise.

IntraLase Corp. (Nasdaq:ILSE) announced today that patients requiring corneal transplant surgery resulting from the recentoutbreak of Fusarium Keratitis eye infection can take advantage of the benefits of corneal transplantation with the advanced IntraLase(R) FSLaser free of charge.

More than 70 Ghanaians, who are distressed by glaucoma and cataract, had received free surgery from a team of ophthalmologists on board the ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital, which landed at the Kotoka International Airport on July 31, 2006, reported the Ghana News Agency Thursday.

Eye surgeons of the HCM City Sponsorship Association for Poor Patients operated on 80 people with cataracts in Cambodia’s Svay Rieng Province August 12-14.