Eye Clinic of Austin
Leading Eye Surgeon Joins Eye Clinic of Austin Thomas Henderson, MD, and Melanie Prosise, OD are excited to welcome leading eye surgeon Farhan A. Irshad, MD FACS to the Eye Clinic of Austin family.
TrueTear® is now available at Eye Clinic of Austin We’re pleased to announce that TrueTear® is now available at Eye Clinic of Austin. If you feel like your eyes aren’t making enough tears, our Eye Care Providers and you can decide together if TrueTear® could be right for you.
With sports accounting for more than 40% of all eye injuries per year, Eye Clinic of Austin wants to bring attention to the importance of using proper eye protection. It’s estimated that 100,000 people suffer from sports-related eye injuries each year and over 13,000 of these injuries result in permanent vision loss.
Importance of Workplace Eye Wellness Almost 25,000 Americans make a visit to the emergency room each year because of a workplace eye injury. Eye Clinic of Austin would like to take this month to remind everyone on how important it is to use approved and certified protective eyewear.
Shingles and Your Eyesight The Shingles vaccine is now recommended for everyone over 50 and it could save your eyesight. The majority of adults who get shingles are otherwise healthy and shingles that affects the eye usually occurs weeks after the initial onset of the disease.
Glaucoma Awareness this New Year As we move into 2018, we take the month of January to spread awareness about a leading cause of blindness in the US – glaucoma. Glaucoma is called the “sneak thief of sight” because early on in the disease’s progression, there are no symptoms.