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SLT has few serious complications, but hyphema, corneal edema, and cystoid macular edema are more common in patients with high myopia.

Newmedica Worcester, which provides NHS and private ophthalmology services, is urging all eyecare providers to publish waiting times for both initial and follow-up appointments to help glaucoma ...

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The suicide of a 26-year-old Pennsylvania police officer over the aftereffects of the popular eye surgery LASIK was not an isolated incident, with others saying the procedure left them with ...

“It’s a good thing you came in now,” a nurse told me before preparing my right eye for numbing drops, an injection and the first of two laser procedures to reattach my right retina.

I have also read about using a laser to break up large floaters into smaller (and presumably easier-to-ignore) pieces, but I have no personal experience with this. In addition, the literature is ...

The eye does not have a way to remove floaters, so you will have them as long as you live unless you do something about it.

ANSWER: “Floaters” are bits of cellular debris in the vitreous humor, which is the gel-filled space in between the lens and the retina. Sudden appearance of floaters can represent serious eye disease, ...

Supplementing with vitamin C and the amino acid proline may make floaters less apparent by helping to rebuild collagen in the vitreous humor. That's why Dr. Abel recommends taking 2,000 mg of each ...