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Is Organic Food Really No Better Than Conventional?
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When was YOUR last eye exam?
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Ask The Eye Doctor Group on Facebook
If you haven't joined Facebook yet, you're missing out on my Ask The Eye Doctor group. (not to mention all the people from high school who you've long forgotten!)
Let's face it - we all have que...

The Importance of Inspired Musical Education
Are you concerned about the state of musical education in our country?
If so, I must share with all of you a speech given last week by Wynton Marsalis.
Marsalis, who has won a Pulitzer Prize ...

ArcticDx Discusses Their Genetic Test for AMD
Just three years after the discovery of some of the genetic causes of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a Canadian company is less than one year away of bringing to market a simple test of sa...

Another "Can't Miss" story about Eye Health?
Newspapers are always looking for the next great story for excitement and to garner read

Geron
FDA Approves Study Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells
The Geron Corporation, based in Menlo Park, California, reported in a news release that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FD) cleared the company's Investigational New Drug applicatio...

Be Careful of those Flying Champagne Corks
As this season's football teams celebrated their respective division championships with champagne, with corks flying around the room painting each others' faces with the pressurized spray, I was mo...

The Avastin versus Lucentis Controversy Continues
Poor Genentech. The company is making the news frequently these days. And it?s not about new drug discoveries or other scientific breakthroughs that is earning the company such press, but rumors ...