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  1. Only Lawyers Now Can Argue Before Supreme Court

    Mon, 1 Jul 2013

    Guam was working on his paralegal certification when he petitioned the Supreme Court last year to hear his case involving cataract surgery gone wrong. When the court agreed to take the case, Levin asked to be his own lawyer at the urging of a supervisor at

  2. Annual Women in Pain Conference Focuses on Relationships

    Wed, 12 Sep 2012

    according 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

  3. A Mother's Love, Still Strong at 104

    Thu, 14 Jun 2012

    She 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

  4. Conn. Veteran Wins Nearly $1M After Botched Cataract Surgery

    Wed, 29 Jun 2011

    A 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

  5. Fla. Grandfather Reclaims His Identity After 17 Years

    Thu, 3 Feb 2011

    that 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

  6. 25 Years in Myopia: Surgical Advances Improve Vision

    Thu, 31 Dec 2009

    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

News

  1. Cataract Surgery Doesn't Worsen Macular Degeneration: Study

    Mon, 9 Nov 2009

    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

  2. Saving Baby's Sight: 8 Month Old Diagnosed With Cataracts

    Mon, 26 Oct 2009

    surgery 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

  3. More Retinal Detachment Seen With Higher Income Status

    Tue, 29 Sep 2009

    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

  4. Gene Found for Age-Related Cataract

    Fri, 31 Jul 2009

    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

  5. Beta-Blockers Tied to Higher Cataract Risk

    Thu, 23 Jul 2009

    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

  6. Study Reiterates Eye Risks Linked to Flomax

    Tue, 19 May 2009

    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

  7. Cataract Surgery Doesn't Worsen AMD

    Thu, 5 Feb 2009

    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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Videos

  1. Signs Of Cataract Surgery Complications?

    Tue, 18 Aug 2009

    Dr. Greenstein answers the question: 'Signs Of Cataract Surgery Complications?'

  2. How Is Recovery After Cataract Surgery ?

    Tue, 18 Aug 2009

    Dr. Greenstein answers the question: 'How Is Recovery After Cataract Surgery ?'

  3. Toms Shoes Founder on Small Business and Charity

    Fri, 9 Sep 2011

    save or restore some insight. I mean this is really 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

    Cataract Surgery found at 5:35

    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
  4. Efficacy of Knee Replacement Implants Questioned

    Mon, 5 Mar 2012

    patients. It does extremely well. On the order 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 safe

    Cataract Surgery found at 0:28

    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
  5. Oops! Woman Shuts Eye With Super Glue

    Fri, 8 Oct 2010

    A 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

    Cataract Surgery found at 0:05

    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
  6. What Is A Cataract And How Common Is It?

    Tue, 18 Aug 2009

    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.

    Cataract Surgery found at 0:32

    the point where blindness occurs. And -- nearly three million Americans have cataract surgery . To cure this problem each year.
  7. Can I Try Out Monovision Contacts?

    Tue, 18 Aug 2009

    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

    Cataract Surgery found at 0:15

    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
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Photos

  1. PHOTO: Richard McMullen, assistant professor of veterinary ophthalmology at North Carolina State University, and second year resident Julie Hempstead, perform cataract surgery on C'sar, the African ...

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