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US News & World Report focuses on Eye Health
March 9, 2007 – This week’s issue of US News & World Report focuses on issues of eye health, including laser surgery, high-tech aids for low vision, and eye diseases affecting millions of Americans.
US News reports in their Good Vision Guide: “glaucoma takes first place among the causes of preventable blindness because it comes on so sneakily … Vision loss can be controlled best in glaucoma’s early stages, so regular screening is a must: at least every two to four years in middle age and more frequently if you’re older, are African-American or Hispanic, or have a family history of glaucoma.”
Andrew Iwach MD, GRF Board Treasurer and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California San Francisco, is quoted in the article saying that when patients come in to his glaucoma practice early enough in the progression of the disease, “we can almost always keep them seeing.” Iwach also notes that being vigilant about taking glaucoma medication can be tough when obvious symptoms are not present.