Understanding Your Insurance Coverage: How Prior Authorizations Can Impact Your Retina Care
Health insurance policies and coverage vary greatly. As we start a new year, it is important to understand how your specific plan works and how that can affect your retina care. Some
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Retina Today Publishes Dr. Abbey’s Research on a Potential Toxic Side Effect of Some “Dropless” Cataract Surgery
“Dropless” cataract surgery has become more popular over the past decade and involves an injection of antibiotics and/or steroids into the eye at the time of surgery to eliminate the need for
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2023 New Year’s Resolutions for Your Eyes
As 2023 begins, it is the perfect time to commit to living a healthy lifestyle. Here are eight New Year’s resolutions to improve your eye health and protect your vision: 1. Schedule
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Protect Your Eyes When Enjoying Holiday Champagne
While a popular way to celebrate and ring in the new year, popping open a bottle of champagne can be dangerous. Did you know that a champagne cork can fly up to
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Holiday Office Closure
Happy Holidays from Texas Retina Associates! Our offices will be closed Friday, December 23, 2022, and Monday, December 26, 2022. We wish you and your family health and happiness this holiday season!
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Texas Retina Associates Announces the Retirement of Rand Spencer, MD
It is with bittersweet emotion that we announce the retirement of Rand Spencer, MD, from Texas Retina Associates effective December 31, 2022. He has been caring for patients at our practice since
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Keep an Eye on Safety When Purchasing and Playing with Holiday Gifts
A 2019 study published in the medical journal Pediatrics found that eye injuries from airsoft, BB, pellet and paintball guns have risen by 50% since 1990. In fact, since 2010, the number
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Control Your Diabetes to Protect Your Vision
November is National Diabetes Month. Diabetes is a disease that occurs when your blood sugar, also known as blood glucose, is too high. It damages blood vessels all over the body, including
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Dr. Abbey Presented at the American Academy of Ophthalmology 2022 Meeting
Over the weekend, Texas Retina Associates’ Ashkan M. Abbey, MD, taught a course titled “Secondary Intraocular Lens (IOL) Techniques for Retina Specialists” at the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) 2022 meeting in Chicago,
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Inflammatory Eye Disease Awareness Week
Prevent Blindness has declared September 26 – October 2, 2022, as Inflammatory Eye Disease Awareness Week. There are a number of inflammatory eye conditions. The one we specialize in at Texas Retina
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