An ancient proverb states “the eyes are the windows of the soul.” As ophthalmologists, the eyes are our window to the body’s circulation system. We see changes in the blood vessels of the retina that reflect what is occurring throughout the body.

Second only to whiter teeth, the next most common desire our patients have is for straighter teeth. The ironic part of this request is that most of these patients had braces when they were younger, but their teeth have gone back to being crooked again.

Millions of women live in denial. If asked ‘what is the number one killer of women in the US,’ few would answer this critical question correctly. Cancer is often the top of the mind response. In reality, cardiovascular disease claims more than 500,000 women’s lives annually, compared to 40,000 women who die each year of breast cancer.

Most people have never heard of pelvic organ prolapse – the sagging or dropping of the bladder, uterus, vagina or rectum – yet half of women will develop this condition at some point in their life.

Picture yourself going to your dentist or doctor! You are not feeling well and a rather unsmiling person slides open a glass partition just a crack and asks you to sign in on a clipboard or worse yet, says “Just take a seat and we’ll be with you.” Then she calls out – NEXT.

Considering the vast number of changes our bodies undergo as part of the normal aging process, one the most predictable, and one often considered a hallmark of middle age, is the onset of presbyopia.

With the history of pharmacy spanning over 5,000 years, the art of pharmaceutical compounding has ancient roots. Until the 20th century and the development of standardized manufacturing all medications were compounded.

The warmth of the summer sun. The golden sand beneath your feet. The smell of the salty surf. Summer’s here, boosting our spirits but with a dangerous tradeoff. The longer days and more intense sunlight exposes you to the sun’s dangerous ultraviolet radiation (UVR). This ‘dark’ side of the sun leads to more than 3.5 million cases of skin cancer in the US each year.

3T MRI is simply the best MRI available today it has the highest quality, clearest images, and is the fastest. The “T” stands for Tesla and is used to talk about magnet strength—a bit like Megapixels with digital cameras. The more “T”, the better the detail of the pictures.

Everything. The most fundamental activities of life revolve around simple and basic patterns of movement. There is a developmental sequence that starts at infancy and develops through childhood. Motor development, the sequence of events through which a child grows, changes, evolves, and matures, is one of life’s most fascinating progressions.