Family History and Eye Disease: What Your Genes Tell You
Most people can rattle off their family’s history of heart disease or cancer without much thought, since those conversations tend to come up naturally at […]
The Aging Retina: How Rod and Cone Function Changes Over Time
Much of the conversation about aging eyes focuses on structures that sit in front of the retina, the lens yellowing, the pupil narrowing, the cornea […]
Glaucoma vs. Cataracts vs. AMD: How to Tell the Difference
These three conditions get lumped together constantly in casual conversation, and it is easy to see why. All three become more common after age 60, […]
The Lens Yellowing Process: Why Colors Look Different as You Age
Somewhere in middle age, without any single dramatic event, the world starts to look slightly different. Whites can seem less crisp, blues can look muddier, […]
What Happens to Your Pupils as You Age
Most conversations about aging eyes focus on the lens, the retina, or the optic nerve, but the pupil, the simple black opening that controls how […]
Eyes in Your 70s and Beyond: What to Expect
By the time most people reach their seventies, the gradual eye changes that started decades earlier, presbyopia in the forties, early lens yellowing, the first […]
The Link Between Menopause and Dry Eye
Hot flashes, sleep disruption, and mood changes tend to dominate conversations about menopause, but a less discussed symptom affects a large share of women during […]
Floaters After 50: When They’re Normal and When to Worry
A floater drifting across your field of vision, a faint speck, thread, or cobweb shape that moves when your eye moves, is one of the […]
Why Your Eye Prescription Keeps Changing After 60
Many people expect their eyeglass prescription to stabilize once they hit adulthood, with only minor tweaks every few years after that. For a lot of […]
The Difference Between Drusen Size and Drusen Number in Early AMD Prognosis
Receiving a diagnosis of early age-related macular degeneration, or being told that drusen have been found on your retinal examination, tends to produce a specific […]