This adorable four year-old presented to my office with a history of getting hit with a “rubber band” two days before. Why hadn’t mom brought him in earlier? Because the pediatrician took a look at him with a penlight, put him on some drops, and deemed him to be okay. But mom trusted her instincts [...]
VisiVite.Com, a leading manufacturer of professional formulas for ocular nutrition, today launched a new mobile web site for smart phones. Dr. Paul Krawitz, President and C.E.O. said, “We were surprised to discover that nearly 18% of our visitors were accessing VisiVite.Com from mobile phones. The new VisiVite.Com mobile site makes shopping for eye vitamins fast [...]
Our heroes, one by one, fall back to earth. The Black Sox, Pete Rose, Mark McGuire, Barry Bonds, Joe Paterno, and now, Lance Armstrong. As an avid bicyclist, I always felt I could ride just a little bit faster and a little bit harder when I was wearing my Lance Armstrong U.S. Postal Service bicycle [...]
In the supplement industry, there’s the good, bad and the very ugly. And those of us who provide quality ingredients in labeled amounts fall on only one side of the room. After my 11 years in the industry, I’ve learned that it’s an unfortunate truth that some companies list their ingredients on a fancy printed [...]
My delightful but frail and wheelchair-bound 85 year-old smiling patient, confided to me this morning, unable to contain her glee, that she received a “Driver’s License Without Limitation” at the Department of Motor Vehicle office here on Long Island. The punchline? New York State renewed her license for 8 more years! She said to me, [...]
Yesterday’s Supreme Court Ruling sets back a long-term viable solution for American health care. But not for the reasons you might think. For-profit insurance companies were at the middle of the entire debate, and they shouldn’t have been. Here’s what really happened: 1. Some people couldn’t afford health care because private companies kept raising rates [...]
If you’re a careful shopper, then you wouldn’t spend $2000 on something when something that costs $40 would do just as well. Yet despite a growing mountain of evidence, that’s exactly what’s happening with the two leading treatments for wet macular degeneration. Lucentis costs $2000 per dose. Avastin costs $40 per dose. Both are made [...]
Dry Eye and drinking don’t mix. In a recent study in the prestigious professional journal, Ophthalmology, researchers found that drinking alcohol worsened dry eye. Specifically, they analyzed tear film and ocular surface changes in 10 healthy subjects and controls who drank a measured dose of alcohol with a meal at dinner. When the alcohol waded its [...]
Remember the adage, “The son of the shoemaker has no shoes?” Ophthalmologists are of the same ilk. Many eye doctors fail to get their own eyes or their family members’ eyes examined. And even more alarming, many fail to take the same safety precautions that they recommend for their patients. This past Monday, I saw [...]
Injections of medications in the eye – such as Lucentis, Avastin and Eyelea – are still required to reverse some of the damage caused by wet macular degeneration. But, in the March 2012 issue of the professional journal, Retina, doctors studied whether to non-steroidal eyedrop bromfenac might improve things. And at least the addition of [...]
Professional Formulas for Ocular Nutrition
Dr. Krawitz trained in Internal Medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, New York. He completed his Ophthalmology training at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, and later was selected as Chief Resident of that program.
He completed an additional year of sub-specialization in Glaucoma at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, NY. Read more.
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