This past weekend, local ABC affiliate KXLY here in Spokane, Washington, interviewed me to ask about the dangers of wearing colored contact lenses without a prescription. Here’s a link to the story, with the interview on video. Screenshot from interview with KXLY about the dangers of costume colored contact lenses. To watch the interview video, check out the link in the first paragraph. Sometimes, people want to change their eye color as part of a Halloween costume, and they find contact lenses that are sold without a prescription. This is illegal, since contact lenses are medical devices — y ..read more

I was asked to do another guest appearance on the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s podcast, “Experts InSight,” recently. I joined my friend and fellow pediatric ophthalmologist, Dr. Pavlina Kemp of the University of Iowa, and host Dr. Jay Sridhar of the University of Miami, to talk about two recent studies published in pediatric ophthalmology. The first looks at adjustable sutures in strabismus surgery, and the second at time spent outdoors as a way to limit progression of myopia. Here’s a link to the podcast if you’d like to check it out ..read more

Recently, I joined my friends and colleagues Dr. Jay Sridhar of the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and Dr. Pavlina Kemp of the University of Iowa on the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s podcast, “Experts InSight,” to discuss treatments strategies to slow down progression of myopia. Here’s a link to the podcast. Some children who are nearsighted have a pretty stable prescription year after year, while others seem to get worse at a quick rate. If your daughter or son’s nearsightedness is getting worse and worse, talk with your eye doctor about options to slow this down. Most of our discussion i ..read more

I have few rules in life, but “when there’s a 10-part documentary about your childhood hero/the greatest basketball player of all time, and it’s on during the COVID pandemic so there’s nothing else to watch, and he seems like he’s having an eye problem, I write about it,” is one of them. Some people have wondered whether MJ has jaundice. I don’t believe that to be the case. The dark brown spots on the whites of his eyes look to me like complexion-associated melanosis, also known as ethnic melanosis. The brown pigmentation overlying the whites of the eyes in this case is likely to be complexio ..read more

As his Golden State Warriors prepare for the NBA Playoffs, hoping to become the first team to win three consecutive championships since the 2000-2002 Los Angeles Lakers, star point guard Stephen Curry revealed the secret to his improved three-point shooting in recent weeks in an interview with The Athletic, as reported by ESPN.The secret? Contact lenses.Curry also reported that he has long suffered from an eye disease known as keratoconus, and that his new contact lenses have dramatically improved his vision, to the point where “it’s like a whole new world has opened up,” according to The Athl ..read more