Glaucoma

Letters: Pot's place in medicine

2013-05-18 00:00:00

Re "The marijuana measures," Editorial, May 10 Your editorial supporting Measure D mentions medical marijuana as a treatment for glaucoma patients. In my 25 years as a glaucoma sufferer, I have never been prescribed marijuana. In fact, research...

Linda Pugach dies at 75; disfigured by lye, she married attacker

2013-01-26 12:19:00

"It's me and Burt against the world." -- Linda Pugach, 2007 With those words, Linda Pugach explained, perhaps as well as anyone could, an unfathomable chain of events. PHOTOS: Linda Pugach | 1937 - 2013 In 1959, she was Linda Riss, a 22-year-old dark-...

Increase in vision problems could be linked to diabetes rise

2012-12-11 13:30:00

An increase in vision problems that cannot be corrected with lenses may be related to an uptick in diabetes rates over the same period, researchers said Tuesday. The team, led by Dr. David S. Friedman of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine...

CVS customers say prescription refills weren't OKd

2012-10-09 00:00:00

George Engelke manages his CVS prescriptions online. If he needs more of a medicine, he orders it. If he's going to be away from his Corona del Mar home, he tells the pharmacy where to send the shipment. He's never asked CVS to automatically refill his...

Patients with pre-existing health conditions buoyed by high court ruling

2012-06-28 21:36:35

Evelyn Bryan Johnson dies at 102; pioneering female pilot

2012-05-21 00:00:00

With her husband serving in the Army Air Forces during World War II, Evelyn Bryan Johnson was looking for something to occupy her time when she wasn't running their dry-cleaning business in Jefferson City, Tenn. She found it in a small advertisement...

Cypress Hill Smokeout returns with Sublime with Rome, more

2011-12-13 16:35:39

Video premiere: Gonjasufi roams downtown L.A. in the 'The Blame'

2012-02-21 16:37:40

2012 Camry: Sharper angles, but nothing edgy in this update

2011-09-29 00:00:00

Say you wake up tomorrow and decide you want to learn to play tennis. Maybe you like Serena Williams' method of anger management, or perhaps it's Novak Djokovic's backhand you're after. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Toyota Camry: A review of the...

Latisse lash lengthener has its fans and detractors

2009-12-07 00:00:00

Taking a prescription drug for a cosmetic side effect -- at the risk of other side effects -- may seem risky. But it's a risk that many Americans, mostly women, have shown themselves happy to take. Latisse, originally a glaucoma drug marketed under the...

Genome scans go deep into your DNA

2008-04-14 00:00:00

MY MATERNAL grandmother had Alzheimer's disease. Before she died, she forgot our names, our faces and, eventually, how to speak and think.But my grandfather's heartbreak was the most painful to witness. I remember watching the two of them on the sofa...

What your oven and your eyes might have in common

2007-06-13 00:00:00

Don't try this at home: According to New Scientist magazine, a researcher has determined that oven cleaner could be just great for treating ... glaucoma. Oven cleaner in the eye? This sounds, at first blush, like a rather surprising remedy. It also begs...

Jeremy King, 6, listens to beeping noises coming from a plastic egg during Saturday's Audible Easter egg hunt in Smithfield. King has congenital glaucoma and is legally blind. The plastic eggs were big, colorful, and beeped noises allowing visually-impaired children to find them.

2013-03-30 00:00:00

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

2012-09-22 00:00:00

Melvin 'Little Mel' Bennett is checked for glaucoma by an eye doctor from the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital at a health fair June 19, 2009 in the Bronx borough of New York City.

2012-03-16 16:39:00