Macular Degeneration Awareness Week 2010 runs from Monday 24 – Sunday 30 May and this year’s theme is “How’s your macula?” Macular Degeneration (MD) is the leading cause of blindness in Australia, affecting central vision. MD is primarily age related and most frequently... 

Golf Monthly is proud to be teaming up with Ultralase to offer you the chance to win life-changing laser eye treatment worth up to £4,790 so that you can maximise your golfing performance. Now Ultralase, together with Golf Monthly, is offering you the chance to win life-changing laser eye treatment... 

The monthly seminars, which are organized by Hamilton, Kovoor and Dr. Olivia Lee, another fellow at the center, are free to the public and offer free screening consultations for vision correction surgery. To accommodate the wide range of ages of those attending, from college students to the local community,... 

The governor Manchin signed a number of bills today on issues ranging from abortion to education. A bill involving laser eye surgery allows optometrists to do three different types of surgeries that treat glaucoma. The bill sparked a debate between ophthalmologist and optometrists. State Senator Ed Bowman... 

The following letter was submitted by FDAWeb.com’s editor (FDA Watchdog) questioning the FDA’s ability to provide “reasonable” assurance of safety and effectiveness for FDA Approved LASIK Devices. Because of this letter, Dean A. Kantis, founder of www.LifeAfterLasik.com (Hurt... 

When you meet people at a first time you notice their eyes. You see their eyes’ color, size and movements. That’s why there are a reason to make your eyes beautiful. Recently, many methods have emerged to change eye color and some of them change the eye color permanently. There are artificial... 

To improve vision naturally, there are a number of things that you can do. Interestingly, some of the old ideas that were thought to be untrue are now being looked at again. One is the stress of too much close work. At one time, it was not unusual to hear parents tell their children to move back from... 

SAN FRANCISCO — A Veterans Administration probe that found eight veterans suffered potentially preventable vision loss while under the care of optometrists at a Northern California VA facility is prompting medical groups to call for a state investigation. The groups sent a petition Wednesday to the... 

A foreign body is something such as an eyelash, sawdust, sand, or dirt can that gets into the eyes. The main symptom is irritation or pain. If anything is stuck in your eye for more than a period of a couple of hours, you must immediately cease all attempts to remove it yourself. Keep in mind that the... 

PEORIA – What began as a practice of one doctor has become a center serving more than 60,000 patients a year from a 100-mile radius. Eye Center in Illinois was the brainchild of the late Dr. George Wyman. “My father bought the practice in 1945 out of an estate, and he practiced largely solo...