A Right for Poor Eyes

2/19/08 New York Post article regarding movision for 40-50 years olds experiencing presbyopia

February 5, 2008-- Nicole Kidman has beautiful eyes - and lately, thanks to laser vision correction, those pretty blue peepers have been seeing without glasses or contacts.  The 40-year old actress has reportedly discussed how happy she is that LASIK has corrected her blurry vision.  (more)

NASA Approves Advanced Lasik for Use on Astronauts

9/21/07 AMO's Advanced CustomVue(TM) LASIK with the IntraLase(R) Method Proves Ready for the Rigors of Space Travel

    SANTA ANA, Calif., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. (AMO) (NYSE: EYE), a global leader in ophthalmic surgical devices and eye care products, today announced that the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) has approved the company's LASIK technologies for use on U.S. astronauts... (more)

Squinters Can Now Apply

9/21/07 Wall Street Journal article regarding NASA's approval of LASIK for future astonauts

Poor eyesight has long been the bugaboo of many aspiring astronauts, disqualifying more would-be space travelers than any other physical requirement since the beginning of the U.S. astronaut program in 1959. Now, nearly a half-century after the program began, NASA is loosening its vision standards, allowing more men and women to reach for dreams of flying into space... (more)

You Don't Look Half Bad

Finding your eyesight changing as you speed by the 40-year old mark?  Yeah, join the club.  Have you considered monovision as an option to reading glasses?

The Health Blog thought we needed our eyes checked when we read an FDA press release touting the approval of a LASIK device designed for treating one eye to see distant objects and the other eye for close-up objects.
Wouldn’t different strengths in each eye lead to confusion and colossal headaches? Eye specialists calmed our fears, saying there are people who can adjust after just a few days. .. (more)
 

10 Minutes, Perfect Vision

Great article for those considering refractive vision correction.

For anyone who's a slave to glasses or contacts, it's hard not to wonder whether laser eye surgery might be the ticket to freedom from corrective lenses.  In the ten years or so since LASIK hit Americans between (and in) the eyes, the lasers that reshape the cornea have become more nimble and spot-on, the diagnostic tools have gotten exactingly precise, and the incidence of serious complications, such as infection or ectasia (a bowing forward of the cornea that causes blurred and double vision), has dropped by half... (more)