A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that clinicians vastly overprepare patients for cataract procedures, driving up costs dramatically. Researchers conclude that 53 percent ...

Although routine preoperative testing is not indicated for patients undergoing cataract surgery, researchers at UC San Francisco have found that it is still a common occurrence and is driven primarily ...

Welcome to another edition of CEDARS/ASPENS Debates. CEDARS/ASPENS is a joint society of cornea, cataract and refractive surgery specialists, here to discuss some of the latest hot topics in ...

WASHINGTON — Space shuttle science may soon come to an eye doctor near you: Researchers are using a NASA gadget to finally tell if a cataract is brewing before someone's vision clouds over. It's ...

(HealthDay News) — Many patients still undergo preoperative testing before cataract surgery despite recommendations against it, according to a study published in the April 16 issue of the New England ...

Requiring patients to get blood work and other tests before undergoing cataract surgery hasn’t been recommended for more than a dozen years. There’s good reason for that: The eye surgery generally ...

In his blog, Not Running a Hospital, Paul Levy, a former CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, discusses the unnecessarily high cost of ophthalmology. 1. According to Mr. Levy, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a recent blog, I described the three stakeholders in any new medical offering: the patient, the doctor and ...

It wasn’t that long ago that cataract surgery meant two or three days in the hospital. Not so today. Cataract surgery is the most common type of elective surgical procedure done on Medicare patients.

Although routine preoperative testing is not indicated for patients undergoing cataract surgery, researchers at UC San Francisco have found that it is still a common occurrence and is driven primarily ...

WASHINGTON - Space shuttle science may soon come to an eye doctor near you: Researchers are using a NASA gadget to finally tell if a cataract is brewing before someone's vision clouds over. It's a ...

Although routine preoperative testing is not indicated for patients undergoing cataract surgery, researchers at UC San Francisco have found that it is still a common occurrence and is driven primarily ...