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Take another look at aspirin and vision loss

Take another look at aspirin and vision loss


| January 23, 2013 | Comments (0)

A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association is catching patients’ eyes. Researchers at the University of Sydney say the results of their fifteen-year study may point to a link between therapeutic aspirin usage and wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD), or vision loss. The benefits of a daily “baby” aspirin regimen have [...]

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Fireworks and Eye Injuries

Fireworks and Eye Injuries


| July 3, 2012 | Comments (0)

According to a story today from KMOX’s Fred Bodimer, “local eye doctors fear that the cancellation of many community fireworks displays due to extreme drought conditions may lead to more individuals setting off their own fireworks.” Fireworks injure an estimated 13,000 people annually with a large number of cases seen in late June and early [...]

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Taking A Look At Eye Safety Pt 6 – medications


| November 1, 2011 | Comments (0)

Have you ever grabbed the wrong medication from the medicine cabinet, taken it, and realized your mistake only after the symptoms set in? This can be a pretty scary situation. Now imagine if the medication was for your eyes… Dr. Gil Grand discusses what you should do if you’ve taken the wrong medicine for your [...]

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Taking a look at Eye Safety Month Pt 5 – darts and guns


| October 24, 2011 | Comments (0)

Summers in a small town required making your own fun. We would frequently hold lawn dart contests during barbecues with the neighbors, and when visiting my grandparents lake house, we’d line up the pop cans on a fence and try to hit them with a BB gun. Both were equal parts fun, and as it [...]

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Taking a look at Eye Safety Month – Pt 4


| October 18, 2011 | Comments (0)

How often do you mow your grass? How about edging your lawn with that very powerful, motorized trimmer? Each time you do, you risk great injury to your eyes. If a lawn mower kicks up a stick, rock, or some other hard object, it can easily become a targeted trajectory aiming right at your eyes. [...]

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Taking a look at Eye Safety Month – Pt 3


| October 12, 2011 | Comments (0)

When’s the last time you hung up a picture in your house? Do you remember what tools you used? Probably a hammer and a nail, right? What about goggles? No? Well, in the famous words of Dirty Harry, you might want to ask yourself “Do I feel lucky?” Because you did indeed get lucky. Dr. [...]

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Taking a look at Eye Safety Month – Pt 2


| October 10, 2011 | Comments (0)

Under the bathroom sink. In the laundry room. In the kitchen pantry. These are places where ordinary house cleansers usually live. And it’s these cleansers that can do some major damage to your eyes. Acids. Alkali. Abrasive chemicals and products with fumes. These are the things that, if you don’t take precautions, could cause irreparable [...]

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Taking a look at eye safety – Part 1


| October 4, 2011 | Comments (0)

Eye safety is something many of us take for granted. I know this to be true, especially after meeting with Dr. Gil Grand, a Washington University ophthalmologist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. As October is Eye Injury Prevention Month and Home Eye Safety Month, I’d wanted to produce a piece on eye safety. Dr. Grand had much [...]

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Winter glare can be harmful to eyes


| January 18, 2011 | Comments (0)

Many people associate wearing sunglasses when it’s warm out.  It’s almost as if sunglasses have become an exclusive warm-weather accessory. But if there’s ever a time you need to wear sunglasses, it’s during snow season. The glare of the sun is reflected off of the snow, resulting in 80% of the harmful ultraviolet rays hitting [...]

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Blend of religions share joy of music


| December 7, 2010 | Comments (0)

It started with a Buddhist, Christian and Jewish man walking into a hospital.  Sounds like a joke, right?  Washington University ophthalmologist Harry Knopf, MD, started working at Barnes Hospital and Jewish Hospital in mid-70s, and shortly after he began caroling around the hospital, recruiting fellow staff and even patients, near the holidays to the other [...]

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