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Annual Women in Pain Conference Focuses on Relationshipsaccording to the National Institutes for Health. Now, Williamson cares for her 87-year-old mother, who is due for cataract surgery this month, but also has a pain condition called spinal stenosis, which puts pressure on her nerves. She said the role
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A Mother's Love, Still Strong at 104She needs a walker to get around, but she doesn't wear a hearing aid. She doesn't even need glasses after having cataract surgery a few years ago. Apart from vitamins, she takes only one pill a day, a mild blood-pressure medication. When people
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Conn. Veteran Wins Nearly $1M After Botched Cataract SurgeryA 60-year-old Army veteran has won $925,000 in a settlement with the Department of Veterans' Affairs following a botched cataract operation . Jose Goncalves was blinded in his right eye in 2007 when a resident at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in West Haven, Conn., injected too much
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Fla. Grandfather Reclaims His Identity After 17 Yearsthat I owed them." Smith was able to straighten that ordeal out and keep his license. When he received the bill for a cataract surgery he had in Florida on May 21, 2010, he was charged for an ambulance ride in California on the same day. "How can I be
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25 Years in Myopia: Surgical Advances Improve Vision
refractive surgery since then. Today, refractive surgery is one of the most common of all surgical procedures, second only to cataract surgery in the United States. This rapid revolution not only provided a cure for myopia but altered how we think about nearsightedness
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Cataract Surgery Doesn't Worsen Macular Degeneration: Study
MONDAY, Nov. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Cataract surgery doesn't appear to speed the progression controversy among clinicians as to whether cataract surgery is contraindicated in eyes with non-neovascular A major concern has been whether cataract surgery increases the risk of progression
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Saving Baby's Sight: 8 Month Old Diagnosed With Cataractssurgery is often the only option to restore vision. Cataract surgery can be performed on infants as young as four weeks of age according to Dr. Kazlas. In fact, she said, glaucoma after cataract surgery is seen in up to 40 percent of children. "Whether it's
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More Retinal Detachment Seen With Higher Income Status
possible that a combination of small differences in known risk factors, such as myopia [short-sightedness] and previous cataract surgery account for the difference," they wrote. "However, we cannot exclude the possibility that affluence is associated
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Gene Found for Age-Related Cataract
study authors noted. By the time they're 80 years old, more than half of Americans will have a cataract or have had cataract surgery , according to a news release about the study. More information The U.S. National Eye Institute has more about cataract
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Beta-Blockers Tied to Higher Cataract Risk
cataract formation and a need for cataract surgery , according to the report published and a 61 percent higher incidence of cataract surgery among people treated with beta-blockers calcium-channel blockers, and cataract surgery was seen in the study, but no such
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Study Reiterates Eye Risks Linked to Flomax
serious complications should they need cataract surgery , a new Canadian study has found Flomax or other alpha-blockers before cataract surgery had complications during and immediately taken Flomax in the two weeks before cataract surgery had a serious complication, compared
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Cataract Surgery Doesn't Worsen AMD
THURSDAY, Feb. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Cataract surgery doesn't hasten vision loss in people studies that suggested a link between cataract surgery and accelerated AMD progression her team found little evidence that cataract surgery influences AMD progression. The study
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Outpatient Procedures on Rise, CDC Says
were endoscopies of the large intestine (5.8 million) and small intestine (3.5 million) and lens extraction for cataract surgery (3.1 million). The most common diagnosis that led to outpatient surgery was a cataract, with 3 million visits attributed
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Signs Of Cataract Surgery Complications?Dr. Greenstein answers the question: 'Signs Of Cataract Surgery Complications?'
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How Is Recovery After Cataract Surgery ?
Dr. Greenstein answers the question: 'How Is Recovery After Cataract Surgery ?'
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serious stuff we are when you purchase a pair we're either doing cataract surgery on someone who's completely blind or blind in one night. I'm getting prescription glasses maybe to a school child can't afford glasses -
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of being compared to open heart surgery total hip replacement and even cataract surgery so what's really at top performer. We also know that if you correctly. Choose patients and -- -- operated on and a -
Oops! Woman Shuts Eye With Super GlueA Phoenix woman found out the hard way that Super Bowl oh really works our home had cataract surgery few years back. And uses six different drop medications but which reach for one of the tiny bottles she grabbed the super who
hard way that Super Bowl oh really works -- our home had cataract surgery few years back. And uses six different -- drop medications but which -- reach for one of the tiny bottles she grabbed -
What Is A Cataract And How Common Is It?world have blindness secondary to cataracts. In this country. Cut cataract. Is rarely allowed to a progressed to the point where blindness occurs. And nearly three million Americans have cataract surgery . To cure this problem each year.
the point where blindness occurs. And -- nearly three million Americans have cataract surgery . To cure this problem each year. -
Can I Try Out Monovision Contacts?seeing distance in one nice seeing up close. To try it this visual arrangement with a contact lens trial prior to having cataract surgery . We would want to know that the patient is happy with us can tolerate it and doesn't experience any significant lowering
this visual arrangement with a -- contact lens trial prior to having cataract surgery . We would want to know that the patient is happy with us can tolerate it and doesn't experience any significant lowering. With
