The National Eye Institute urges all Americans to prioritize their eye health during May as part of Healthy Vision Month. The most effective way to take care of your eyes is to have a comprehensive dilated eye exam. A dilated eye exam allows your eye care professional to detect vision problems as well as eye [...]
Non-smokers who live with a smoker double their risk of developing age-related macular degeneration according to a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Cambridge. Macular degeneration is the leading cause of vision loss and blindness among those over the age of 60 and affects the central vision, which is necessary for such [...]
2.6 million women in the United States who are aged 40 and older have poor vision that cannot be fixed or are blind compared to 1.5 million men. The National Eye Institute attributes hormonal factors as well as longer lifespan as being the primal causes for the startling disparity. Prevent Blindness America recommends that women [...]
Researchers at Michigan State University believe that gene therapy used to treat an inherited form of total color blindness in dogs could also be used in treating the same condition in humans along with other eye disorders. The researchers worked upon the theory that certain photoreceptor cells in the eyes known as “cones” were too [...]
Not only does the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approve drugs and therapies, they also approve software for medical use and they recently approved the myVisionTrack iPhone app for use as a vision test. myVisionTrack™ is an an accurate home diagnostic system available as an app that allows patients with macular degeneration and other retinal [...]
A randomized trial that was conducted by researchers at Friedrich Schiller University in Germany, found that supplements containing lutein, zeaxanthin and omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFAs) greatly improved plasma antioxidant capacity. The study involved 172 patients who had dry age-related macular degeneration and were divided into three groups. One group received a capsule containing [...]
Jetrea, an intravitreal injection therapy which was previously approved by the FDA last October, has now gained approval for use in Europe. Jetrea is the only approved drug therapy used to treat vitreomacular traction (VMT). Vitreomacular traction causes holes in the macula, which then leads to irreversible vision loss. The macula is responsible for central [...]
Researchers are on the verge of refining stem cell treatments that would stop and possibly even reverse the vision loss caused by diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy is caused by complications of diabetes mellitus, which can lead to complete vision loss. The disease affects up to 80% of patients who have been diabetic for ten or [...]
More than 10,000 adults over the age of 20 took part in the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey between 2005 and 2008 and results of this study were published in the journal JAMA Ophthalmology. After analyzing the data from the survey, researchers found that people suffering from depression are more likely to have [...]
A recent study revealed that patients with normal-tension glaucoma are at a higher risk of losing their vision if they are being treated for systemic hypertension. The prevailing line of thought had been that getting blood pressure down to as low of levels as possible was the best way to go. Researchers discovered this was [...]
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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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