Archive for May 2025

It is a common experience, one that many of us are familiar with–you step out on a cold day, and you can’t see through your glasses anymore. The key element that causes the fogging is the temperature change. With the rapid temperature change, condensation forms on the lenses. Looking through the condensation is literally looking…

Curcumin is a biologically active ingredient in turmeric, and is thus a common part of the South Asian diet. In the December 2024 issue of JAMA Ophthalmology, Dr. Amer Alsoudi and colleagues published a study about people taking curcuma-based nutritional supplements and macular degeneration. In this study, patients taking curcuma-based nutritional supplements were found to…

In the December 2024 edition of the journal Ophthalmology, Dr. Bita Momenaei and colleagues published a study regarding retinal detachment and retinal tears after cataract surgery. They specifically focused on patients who had previously had treated retinal tears. About 5% of the eyes had another retinal tear within 1 year after cataract surgery. While retinal…

In the December 2024 edition of the Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery, Dr. Scott Massa and colleagues published a study about dropless cataract surgery prophylaxis. This is what my practice currently offers to many of our patients; an attempt to place medications on the eye at the time of surgery to decrease the need…