There has never been a better time to have cataract surgery than NOW. The replacement lens implants now available can help you to: Each of the three advanced multifocal replacement lenses currently ...

We have been discussing various lens-based procedures for the correction of presbyopia. Last month I outlined the details of the blended vision lens implant approach, which relies heavily on the ...

Support local journalism. An unlimited digital subscription to floridatoday.com is just $1 for 6 months. Click here and subscribe today. A cataract develops when the natural lens inside the eye ...

There once was a time when Karen Walker would never stray far from her reading glasses. "I had 'cheaters' glasses everywhere," she said. "Probably a dozen. I wouldn't leave the house without a spare." ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- It's a procedure that everyone, if they live long enough, will need eventually. For 55-year-old Kate Reiss, the future is now after her visit to the Medical University of South ...

Corneal refractive surgery has been performed on millions of patients to decrease their spectacle dependence. Most of these patients have high expectations of visual function—but as these patients age ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Cheryl Henry remembers putting on her first pair of glasses in second grade and getting a whole new view of her family’s Iowa farm. “Mom,” she recalls saying, “did you know you can ...

Inside the eye, we have a lens, known as the crystalline lens. This is a clear structure when we are born but it continues to produce cells as we grow older. This is part of the normal process of ...

PARIS — Multifocal lenses are not an advisable option in glaucoma patients, according to one surgeon speaking at the French Society of Ophthalmology meeting. “This topic is extremely interesting ...

Mr. Clint Wolf didn't quite get the facts straight in his article, “Seeing world with new eyes,” which has led to some public misconceptions. First of all, Dr. Townshend is not performing a new ...

A retired Kutztown University music professor who wore bifocals to play the piano and trifocals for nearly everything else read music without any glasses days after a surgeon replaced his clouded ...