With nearly 1% of Americans undergoing cataract surgery each year, the procedure is the most common operation Medicare covers ...

Dear Savvy Senior: How does Medicare cover cataract surgery? My eye doctor recently told me that I’ve developed cataracts and should consider making plans for surgery in the next year or so. — Almost ...

An expert MD reveals clear insights into cataract surgery, spotlighting the breakthroughs in treatment: "We live in a time of ...

TUPELO — Often, it’s while driving at night that a patient first notices the negative effects of cataracts. Blinding headlights from oncoming traffic force them to look at the lines on the road, ...

It’s normal to have anxiety about cataract surgery—and even postpone scheduling the procedure out of fear. But it shouldn’t be that way. Dr. Jeff Dello Russo, an ophthalmologist at Dello Russo Laser ...

Patients receive the surgery with minimal sedation using diazepam pills More than 99% of patients decided to have their second eye surgery done in the office, after their experience with the first ...

Cataract surgery is a quick, painless surgery to remove a cloudy lens that’s causing vision issues. You receive a new intraocular lens that also corrects nearsightedness and farsightedness. You only ...

Alcon’s LenSx femtosecond laser may be the most significant piece of technology to impact cataract surgery in recent years, allowing surgeons to correct astigmatism in cataract patients by creating ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . It is hard to believe that 17 years have passed since Zoltan Z. Nagy, MD, PhD, performed the first femtosecond ...

The emotional weight behind eye surgery also comes from the stakes involved. People worry about protecting their vision, and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Surgeons undertaking live surgery will often be in an unfamiliar environment, in a theater they never have ...