Winter is officially over and spring is here.  Even if you have not looked at your calendar - your nose, eyes and heart probably know.   Love and pollen are in the air!  The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) just released the 2012 top 10 spring allergy capital cities: 1 - … [Read more...]

The number of people has allergies or asthma is one in five! Allergy patients can present themselves with itchy, red, watery and dry eyes. They often complain of having a constant cold.  Chronic dry eye is often associated with ocular allergy.  Want to know what medications are prescribed and … [Read more...]

The press has spent a lot of time this month claiming that the famous English actress, Dame Judi Dench, is going blind, based on her recent diagnoses of Macular Degeneration.  We applaud her for taking a stand and announcing that the reports of her impending blindness have been “overblown” and … [Read more...]

Have you ever emerged from a matinee movie, squinted into the sudden burst of sunlight and sneezed uncontrollably? Up to a third of the population will answer this question with an emphatic "Yes!" (whereas nearly everyone else scratches their head in confusion). Sneezing as the result of being … [Read more...]

We normally focus on dietary intake and eye health, but today's column focuses on the growing amount of science that connects diet to mental health. The better the diet, the better the mental health of most people. It seems that what we swallow can be as detrimental as nutritional deficiencies … [Read more...]

A study published online in in the March, 2012 Nature Medicine and titled, Vitamin E decreases bone mass by stimulating osteoclast fusion, used a rodent model to demonstrate that mice, genetically altered to be deficient in Vitamin E α-tocopherol transfer protein, have a high bone mass as a … [Read more...]