Eyes and Vision

Eye-opening service project at Hammond Middle benefits Ethiopia

2012-12-03 13:59:00

Students at Hammond Middle School put away their textbooks on Friday, Nov. 30, and left the classroom for a different kind of education. To raise money and awareness for a program one of their teachers is participating in, the entire student...

Diabetes leading to blindness in many people

2012-11-28 11:24:00

Diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness among adults 20 to 74 years old. Dr. Michael Grodin, co-director of retinal services and director of clinical research at Katzen Eye Group, discusses eye problems and the link to diabetes. Why is...

Senior briefs

2012-10-26 00:00:00

Support groups The Department of Aging and Disabilities has updated a booklet on community support groups. The booklet focuses on groups for care giving, Alzheimer's disease, bereavement for adults and children, diabetes, brain injury, cancer, stroke,...

89 MD facilities bought drugs from company involved in meningitis outbreak

2012-10-24 08:56:00

The Food and Drug Administration released a new list of more than 3,000 hospitals that bought drugs from the company at the center of a nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak, including 89 facilities in Maryland. The drugs bought by Maryland facilities...

89 Md. facilities bought drugs from firm linked to meningitis outbreak

2012-10-24 17:36:00

The federal Food and Drug Administration identified 89 medical facilities in Maryland that bought drugs from the Massachusetts manufacturer being investigated for a national fungal meningitis outbreak. The facilities are among more than 3,000 in numerous...

$2 million prize announced for cure for blindness by 2020

2012-10-19 18:27:24

Singer Art Garfunkel, a real estate magnate and an investor are putting $2 million in gold bullion on the line to inspire researchers to cure blindness by 2020, establishing through Johns Hopkins Medicine one of the world's largest prizes for a scientific...

Dr. Michael Boland joins Wilmer Eye Clinic in Bel Air

2012-08-27 11:35:00

Michael Boland, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine, is seeing patients at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Bel Air (formerly Parris-Castoro Eye Care Center). He is certified by the American...

Wilmer Eye Institute celebrates new locations in Bel Air, HdG

2012-08-27 11:12:00

The Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Medicine commemorated the grand opening of its Bel Air and Havre de Grace locations (both formerly Parris-Castoro Eye Care Centers) during a recent ribbon-cutting ceremony. These two sites represent the ninth...

Dr. Kraig Scot Bower joins Wilmer Eye in Bel Air

2012-08-27 11:35:00

Kraig Scot Bower, M.D., F.A.C.S, the director of refractive surgery at The Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, is seeing patients at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Bel Air (formerly Parris-Castoro Eye Care Center). Bower is...

Eyelid inflammation becoming more common

2011-11-16 09:48:00

Blepharitis, usually identified by a sufferer's red, irritated eyelids, is becoming more common. And while doctors aren't sure why, it can be controlled with vigilance, according to Dr. Laura K. Green, residency program director of cornea, cataract and...

Rare disorder nearly takes Baltimore woman's sight

2012-05-06 12:44:47

When Tamika Morgan developed red irritated eyes in the fall of 2010, she wasted no time heading to an optometrist at a local retail store who gave her drops for pink eye. Her eyes got worse over the next few days so she went to a local hospital to see an...

Both eye and vision care should be insured

2012-02-21 08:15:00

Marylanders are extremely fortunate to have some of the nation's finest health care resources readily available within our borders. As Vincent DeMarco points out in his recent commentary ("Health exchanges benefit Md. families," Feb. 16), we also lead the...

Mark Bergman of Bergman Eye Center checks for glaucoma on Shannon Venable at Convoy of Hope on Saturday.

2012-09-22 00:00:00

Dr. Jose de la Cruz checks Merle Gordon's eyes during a follow-up visit after she had laser surgery to treat her cataracts at the Millennium Eye Center, a satellite clinic of University of Illinois.

2012-07-30 16:01:15

Group. She writes here about her profession. What does your job entail?: Examining patients, diagnosing and treating eye conditions, routine eye examinations for glasses & contact lenses, managing patients pre & post-operatively for a variety of surgical treatments (e.g.

2012-06-07 09:47:00