]> http://www.healthedia.com/tags/cataract-surgery Blog Articles Tagged with 'cataract-surgery' at http://www.healthedia.com en http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/eye-on-vision/922177?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery A recent visitor to our WebMD Vision & Eye Disorder message board posted an inquiry about his mother who had just recently had cataract surgery. I could immediately sense the worry in his posting.During the post-op clinic visit the woman could see ve... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/eye-on-vision/922177?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:43:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/patients-doctor/919648?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Everyone is hurting from the global financial crisis. I think this is actually a great opportunity for Indian healthcare. US companies and US health insurance players are going to need to tighten their purse strings - and they are now going to be for... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/patients-doctor/919648?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:40:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/eye-on-vision/919106?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Most folks with health eyes who undergo cataract surgery usually sail through the procedure. Within weeks the patient enjoys crisp, colorful vision that they haven't experienced in years.However, some folks have a more rocky course. One big boulder a... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/eye-on-vision/919106?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:16:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/eye-on-vision/918477?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Ever heard the phrase 'ghost surgery'? It can be a very scary topic. Ghost surgery exists whenever an individual performing an operation is not the same person that the patient expected to be wielding the scapel. In some busy practices the patient is... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/eye-on-vision/918477?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:13:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/paging-drgupta/912535?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery By Val WillinghamCNN Medical Producer I come from a family of cataract sufferers. My father had cataract surgery a few years ago. My mother has the beginning of cataracts. So does my husband. Even my dog has a cataract! A cataract is th... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/paging-drgupta/912535?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:10:10 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/paging-drgupta/915029?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery By Val WillinghamCNN Medical Producer I come from a family of cataract sufferers. My father had cataract surgery a few years ago. My mother has the beginning of cataracts. So does my husband. Even my dog has a cataract! A cataract is th... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/paging-drgupta/915029?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:10:10 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-wes/911906?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery The Happy Hospitalist nails it:The appropriate course of action should be a radically new approach to the Medicare entitlement program. We do not have a choice. The political suicide of such an action is however glaring. Our Congress is bogged down i... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-wes/911906?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:16:35 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/kevin-md-medical-weblog/911862?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery The following is a reader take by The Happy Hospitalist.All for one and none for all. That is the state of the current government program called Medicare. The entitlement program that threatens the financial security of our nation. On March 25, 200... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/kevin-md-medical-weblog/911862?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/eye-on-vision/911414?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Photo Credit: Joe LoongChemical engineering researchers at McMaster University have shown that a natural substance found in our bodies can be used as a natural moisturizing agent in contact lenses. This is a step up from the current wave of self-mois... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/eye-on-vision/911414?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:30:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/eye-on-vision/909979?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Sometimes what starts out as one eye operation turns out to be four...sometimes six.With all respect to my dermatology colleagues, performing an eye operation is not like having a wart frozen. There, that's done. You're cured! Eye surgeons frequentl... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/eye-on-vision/909979?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:24:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/eye-on-vision/901358?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery We are beginning to learn more and more about the major health care crunch that is expected to develop in America. Sure, most of us will live longer, healthier lives. The over-85 age group is the fastest growing USA demographic. This 'good news' will... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/eye-on-vision/901358?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Thu, 08 May 2008 14:42:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/901166?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery PEAK Surgical, Inc. from Palo Alto, CA hates the bovie cutter/coagulator. The company cannot stand the 1920's technology behind the bovie, and how its thermal function destroys healthy patient tissue around the cut. What do we hate about the bovie? W... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/901166?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Wed, 07 May 2008 14:07:53 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/eye-on-vision/898265?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Nearly two million cataract surgeries are performed every year across America, yet most of us still know very little about this very common eye disorder. Age-related cataract is the leading cause of vision loss worldwide.The prevalence of cataract do... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/eye-on-vision/898265?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:11:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/purple-medical-blog/897353?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery HOW THEY USE ULTRASOUND AND A VACUUM CLEANER TO DO CATARACT SURGERY WATCH A VIDEO OF HIGH TECH CATARACT EYE SURGERYOphthalmologists use a vacuum cleaner in cataract surgery. Or at least the ophthalmologist uses a vacuum device that sucks up the piece... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/purple-medical-blog/897353?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:05:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-dello-russo/893808?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery As reported in the December edition of Ophthalmology Times and by Dr. Talamo of Boston, patients now have choices in the type of lens implant that they can choose to replace their clowded lens (cataract). They used to have no choice. Surgeons had on... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-dello-russo/893808?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:00:18 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-dello-russo/890993?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery One of the most discussed topics at the Eyeworld meeting in Mexico (February 2008) was presented by Drs. D. Koch, H. Wu, T. O Brien and Robert Osher who explained that cataract surgeons now have greater choices when performing a cataract surgery. T... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-dello-russo/890993?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:01:28 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/eye-on-vision/878759?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Cataract removal is the most commonly performed conventional surgical procedure performed in America. Medicare alone reimburses for over 2 million operations yearly.Removing the lens from an expensive camera renders it useless - the same goes for the... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/eye-on-vision/878759?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:07:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/kevin-md-medical-weblog/872867?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery If they only could:* About 71 percent said they would likely or definitely speak to a neighbor who is a secretary at an MRI clinic if it meant getting moved up a list instead of waiting three months* Some 30 percent would give their surgeon tickets t... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/kevin-md-medical-weblog/872867?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:29:49 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/doctor-weighs-in/871002?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Brian KlepperOne of the most fascinating and moving experiences at the Aspen Health Forum Given the quality of the content there, this is saying something. The audience was rapt was a talk by Neen Hunt, Executive Director of the Lasker Founda... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/doctor-weighs-in/871002?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:00:14 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/doctor-weighs-in/871144?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Brian KlepperOne of the most fascinating and moving experiences at the Aspen Health Forum Given the quality of the content there, this is saying something. The audience was rapt was a talk by Neen Hunt, Executive Director of the Lasker Founda... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/doctor-weighs-in/871144?rsstype=tag&tag=cataract-surgery Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:00:14 -0400