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, ...

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 ...

MILAN, Italy — A femtosecond laser system enables fewer exclusion criteria for cataract surgery and a rapid increase in patient volume, according to one surgeon. “We acquired the laser in December ...

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.

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 ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Cataract surgery is done more than any other operation in America — a million and a half times a year. The latest innovation is laser cataract surgery. Dr. Andrew Moyes of Moyes Eye ...

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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- My mom, Narcy Santos, is turning 83 in a couple of weeks, but for about 20 years she has been having eye trouble. Like countless others, for 60 years she was nearsighted ...