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Multifocal IOLs (Intraocular Lens Implants) are the most popular and successful of the various IOL designs meant to provide good uncorrected distance and near vision after cataract surgery. So why wouldn't every ophthalmologist suggest them to their patients? There are...

Strange as it may sound, it is indeed possible to have "double vision" in just one eye. This is usually due to a developing cataract. The natural human lens is not solid like the lens in a pair of glasses. Rather, it is more like an onion...

Cataract surgery should be considered when you (as the patient) decide you need to see better and glasses/contact lenses are no longer doing the job. The word "cataract" is itself misleading. What we are talking about is the natural human (or "crystalline") lens that...

I would guess that you are nearsighted and over about age 45. Myopia (nearsightedness) is where your eyes' default focus is up close instead of off at a distance as is the case in the normal eye. The one good thing about being nearsighted and reaching middle-age is...

Marketing companies can use the power of the unconscious and the subtleties of our brain to manipulate us and encourage us to buy their product. Here is a little test to demonstrate: Instinctively, if you had to designate your favorite photo as quickly as possible,...

We tend to think of our eyes as two video cameras, sending two overlapping images to the brain where vision is passively perceived. But human vision is different from video cameras in many important ways -and it is not a passive process. The image each eye sees is...

You do not necessarily need to have the same visual acuity or refractive error (glasses Rx) in both of your eyes, although that is usually the case. A common strategy to deal with presbyopia is something called "monovision."...

Lots of things related to vision cannot be fixed with LASIK. Disease and degenerations like macular degeneration and cataracts are not at all suited for LASIK treatment. In the world of vision problems that glasses can correct (which is really what refractive surgery...