Word: nearsightedness
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But this week, the outcry of Sox fans achieved a modicum of validity from a rather unlikely source. Dr. Carmen Puliafito, who chairs the ophthalmology department at Tufts University School of Medicine, was so upset by blown calls during the American League Championships that he offered to perform free eye...
As it happens, the eye's lens provides just a third of the eye's focusing power. The rest comes from the cornea, which acts like a second lens to help focus light onto the retina. If you're nearsighted, or myopic, your eye produces clear images of nearby objects...
Attempts to change the way the cornea focuses light by surgically altering its surface began as early as the 1950s. By the 1970s Soviet doctors routinely used scalpels to reshape the corneas of nearsighted patients in an operation called radial keratotomy. But the surgery, involving a spokelike ring of incisions...
LASIK solved this problem. Using a delicate cutting instrument called a microkeratome, surgeons made a sideways slice through the cornea's outermost layers, leaving one side attached, and carefully lifted the flap of tissue out of the way. In nearsighted patients, an invisible beam of laser light then trimmed away...
...infants. "This is not something that anyone would have predicted," Stone says. Furthermore, as I and about 65 million other Americans can attest, being nearsighted is no big deal. True, we're at a slightly greater risk of developing glaucoma and detached retinas, but for most of us, nearsightedness is a minor inconvenience. Besides, I think glasses are kind of cool...