Cataracts Articles & Stories

The Association between Cataracts and Smoking

It's widely known that cigarette smoking is a major risk factor for a variety of diseases. Now, scientists have found evidence linking smoking to an increased risk of age-related cataract, the main cause of blindness and vision loss in the world. Read More

Cataract Surgery Helps Reduce Hip Fracture Risk

Older people with a diagnosis of cataracts face a lower risk of hip fracture following cataract surgery. The large study, appearing in JAMA, suggests that the vision-improving surgery may reduce the occurrence of injury-related falls. Read More

Older Americans See Debilitating Eyesight Problems Begin to Decline

Senior citizens are now reporting fewer eyesight problems than their counterparts from a generation ago, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study. Improved techniques for cataracts surgery and a reduction in macular degeneration incidence may be the main forces behind this change. Read More

Choosing Between Traditional and Custom Lasik

Lasik eyesight-correction surgery, a phenomenal breakthrough when it was first approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration in 1995, has recently been trumped big-time by the innovation known as wavefront Lasik technology, which is some 25 times more precise than its older cousin. The... Read More

LASIK Treatment Can Induce Cornea Clouding

While laser eye surgery typically results in miraculously restored vision, there are some cases in which the very center of the cornea clouds up and actually worsens vision. That’s the bad news, according to a recent study done by a pair of Los Angeles ophthalmologis... Read More

Lasik Helps U.S. Retain Pilots, Astronauts

The natural human aging process is in a constant war with the U.S. military and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Aging has always degraded the vision of Air Force pilots, Navy divers and NASA astronauts - and this has made it difficult for the respective services to retain t... Read More

Sutureless Cornea Transplant Surgery

“I could barely see, like when I would get up in the morning everything was so foggy. The first thing that was in my mind was that, wow, maybe I’m going blind,” says Dyeane Dunn. Dyeane Dunn’s corneas were damaged. She would need a cornea transplant to replace the diseased tissue. Doctors wer... Read More

Cataracts and Statins

Cataracts are a common problem as we age. In people over the age of 75, two-thirds have the most common type of cataract. There are at least 300 to 400, 000 new visually disabling cataracts annually in the U.S. So preventing them would be key; but we really don’t have a good handle on how to ... Read More