All Entries Tagged With: "cataract"
Who Is at Risk for Cataracts?
Aug 22 2011: Who Is at Risk for Cataracts? By age 75, about 70 percent of people will have cataracts. With age, our eye’s lens slowly becomes less flexible, less transparent and thicker. Then areas of the lens become cloudy as protein in the lens begins to clump together.
Dave Allamby | Aug 22, 2011 | Comments 0
New lens to restore reading vision for people age 45+
A new lens to help reading vision has received approval from the American Food & Drug Administration (FDA), according to manufacturers Bausch & Lomb, based at Rochester in New York state. These lenses are inserted inside the eye during a procedure very similar to that used for cataract surgery. The natural lens is removed and [...]
Dave Allamby | Jul 08, 2008 | Comments 0

