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Have You Heard About MIGS?
For over 40 years the standard surgical treatment for glaucoma was a procedure called a trabeculectomy.In a trabeculecto...
What Everyone Should Know About Macular...
Age-related macular degeneration, often called ARMD or AMD, is the leading cause of vision loss among Americans 65 and o...
Chances Are Good You Have These Mites in...
Demodex folliculorum -- often just called demodex --  is a mite that occurs naturally on many people's faces and re...
Another Perspective on Texting & Driving
There are many opinions on the topic of texting and driving. The goal of this blog post is to explore the effects on vis...
When It Looks Like Your Eye Is Bleeding
We commonly see patients who come in saying that their eyes are bleeding.The patient is usually referring to the white p...

Choroidal nevus is the fancy word for a freckle in the back of the eye.

This lesion arises from a collection of cells that make pigment in the choroid, which lines the back of the retina and supplies the retina with nutrients. These choroidal...

Hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil) was originally used to treat malaria and is now used mostly to treat rheumatological and dermatological diseases. Its most frequent use now is for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and Lupus and is often very effective in...