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Obama’s health care reform bill may now include what has been dubbed the Bo-tax, a 5% surcharge on all elective cosmetic procedures, in order to offset the cost of health care reform. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons argues that the Bo-tax may have been designed to tax the upper echelon of society who has… Read More

The frequency of myopia among Asians and other is on the rise and appears to increase with education. A study was conducted in Singapore in 1992 to investigate the prevalence of nearsightedness (known as myopia) as one’s education increased. The findings were astonishing: Just over 15% of male subjects with little education were myopic compared… Read More

About 40,000 corneal transplants are performed each year, making it the most frequently performed transplant surgery in the world. Fewer donor corneas are available because more and more people are having laser vision correction surgery like LASIK, which makes their corneas unsuitable for transplants. Because of this shrinking pool of donors, scientists at the University… Read More

With all the feasting that goes on around Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s, I thought I’d write about the nutrition you’ll be getting and which nutrients can enhance the health of your eyes. In the 1990s, the National Eye Institute conducted a major study that examined eye health and nutrition. This extensive study concluded that… Read More

…and it’s pretty disheartening, I know. But, fear not! You may still have vision correction options available to you. If you were told you can’t have LASIK, your doctor may have mentioned that you should consider PRK. PRK, or photo refractive keratectomy, is LASIK’s ancestor that is still widely performed today. The outcomes of LASIK… Read More

No, I’m not talking about how you envision your future with a new baby. That’s for another blog! I mean your eyes may actually change during your pregnancy. If you’re reading this article, you know that hormones can wreak havoc on everything from you ankles on up to your complexion. And hormones can change your… Read More

A study published in Ophthalmology examined the relationship between health, socioeconomic status, employment status, marital status, and participation in organizations and how they correlated with vision in adults. The almost-10,000 subjects were born in 1958 and were all assessed when they were either 44 or 45. The study found that those with vision impairments at… Read More

A study conducted by Synovate Inc. asked contact lens wearers about how they wear and care for their contacts. Startlingly, 70% of wearers said that they had worn their contact lenses while swimming. Additionally, 40% of wearers surveyed said that they did not wash their hands before putting in their contacts. Forty percent also said… Read More

When counseling patients as to whether they are good candidates for LASIK or not, I’m often asked about the effect the surgery may have on their night-vision. With older LASIK technologies, night vision was sometimes adversely affected. Recently, though, a fantastic study came out of the military. The LASIK eye surgeons who perform the vision… Read More

No, “blind artist” is not an oxymoron. In fact, there are organizations that cater specifically to blind visual artists. Researchers from Harvard recently studied the brain activity of a Turkish artist who has been blind since birth. They were looking to see what happened to his visual cortex, the part of the brain that is… Read More