Each year, about 3 million Americans go under the knife to have cataracts removed. But a Baltimore-based ophthalmologist will soon be wielding a computer mouse as he performs cataract surgery. Dr.

After conquering the areas of refractive surgery and corneal grafting, the femtosecond laser has entered the realm of cataract surgery. It holds the promise of being a second revolution in cataract ...

Lawrence resident Donald Ogburn lies still as a laser is lowered onto his right eye for cataract-removal surgery at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. As he got ready for cataract surgery on a recent day, ...

As proponents of laser cataract surgery, we read the story, “Making the decision to transition to laser cataract surgery,” in the July 10, 2013, issue of Ocular Surgery News with great interest, but ...

For many, cataract surgery is a fact of aging the same as gray hair or wrinkles. As the eye ages, often its usually clear lens grows cloudy. By age 80, more than half of Americans either have a ...

Last year, 70-year-old Phyllis Jackson thought something was wrong with her glasses prescription. Her eye doctor said the problem was cataracts – clouding that occurs in the lens of the eye. Typically ...

Patients often ask about having their cataract surgery performed with a laser. Until recently, this technology was not available in Central Mass. First, let’s discuss what a cataract is and how this ...

Cataract surgery is the most commonly performed surgical procedure in the world. There are approximately 19 million cataract surgeries performed annually, 3 million of which are performed in the U.S.

Bernard Meyers is almost blind in his right eye, making it critical to for him to have a fully functioning left eye. When his eyesight deteriorated to the point when he could no longer read the ...

NORWALK -- When Ophthalmic Consultants of Connecticut (OCC) introduced state-of-the-art laser eye surgery to New England in 2011, they became the first surgeons in the region to perform bladeless ...

CHEYENNE — Local patients seeking laser-assisted cataract surgery will no longer have to commute down south to Colorado after the first laser-assisted cataract surgeries began in Cheyenne last week at ...

From cutting-edge vision correction (including LASIK) to next-generation cataract surgery, here’s your insider guide to ...