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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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Barnes-Jewish, MO Highway Patrol Speak Out Against Distracted Driving

Barnes-Jewish, MO Highway Patrol Speak Out Against Distracted Driving


| May 16, 2012 | Comments (0)

Representatives from trauma services at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the Missouri Highway Patrol spoke out today about the increase in fatalities resulting from mobile phone use while driving and the dangers of distracted driving. Also joining them at the press conference in our Center for Advanced Medicine was a University of Missouri professor who lost her son in a “distracted [...]

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E. coli and food safety with Dr. Joe Primrose


| November 14, 2011 | Comments (0)

If you’ve been following the local news, there have now been 32 official cases of E. coli diagnosed in and around St. Louis. E. coli is a strain of bacteria that can come from food, and it can make you very sick and in some cases cause death. Dr. Joe Primrose discusses what E. coli [...]

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Cardinal Fever – at the ballpark with Dr. Tan


| November 1, 2011 | Comments (0)

We caught up with Dr. David Tan, who is the chief of the EMS Section of the Department of Emergency Medicine here at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. You may have seen him and members of the department at the Cardinals Games, treating fans on-site or preparing them for a trip to the hospital.  We were curious as [...]

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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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Jeepers Creepers….protect those peepers this Halloween


| October 14, 2011 | Comments (0)

Halloween is just around the corner, and you may already be thinking of what you’ll dress up as, or perhaps you already have your costume picked out. Are you planning on completing that costume with some funky contact lenses? Perhaps some mesmerizing orange ones that would befit a Cullen vampire? Or perhaps you’re going for [...]

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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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