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Eye experts stress importance of consumer research before undergoing LASIK.

In continuing coverage from previous editions of First Look, California's Alameda Times-Star reports that while the majority of patients who under… Continue

Canada's Gazette reported that "[e]lderly motorists with cataracts are 2.5 times more likely to cause a car crash than seniors whose eyesight is not impaired," according to a study presented on Monday at the International Conference on Low Vision. Cynthia Owsley, Ph.D., of Alabama's University o… Continue

In continuing coverage from previous editions of First Look, New York's Newsday reported that "[i]n an effort to use his surgery as a teaching exercise," New York Gov. David A. Paterson (D) "brought a camera crew along with him last weekend when he had a cataract removed from his eye, he said in a television interview" last week. During an appearance on the CNN American Morning show, the governor "talk… Continue

The Australian reported that Australian researchers are working on a "bionic eye." Currently, the leader in the field "is the well-endowed Doheny Eye Institute at the University of Southern California, and its spin-off company Second Sight Medical Products Inc." In "February, Second Sight received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to conduct a three-year trial of its Argus II Retinal Prosthesis Syste… Continue

Columnist explains strabismus, lazy eye. In a column in the U.K.'s Manchester Evening News, a reader wrote that his three-year-old child's "left eye turns in, especially when he is tired or looking at books. Does he need to see an optician?" Optician Martyn Allen explained that "[a] squint (or strabismus) is when one of the eyes does not point in the direction of the object it… Continue