Frederick H.D. Weidman, III, MD – Horizon Eye Care https://www.horizoneye.com Always Thinking Vision Wed, 17 May 2023 02:53:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://www.horizoneye.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-Horizonlogo_file_h_only_reverse_loose_512x512-32x32.jpg Frederick H.D. Weidman, III, MD – Horizon Eye Care https://www.horizoneye.com 32 32 Some Sufferers from Dry AMD Finally May Get Medical Help with Syfovre https://www.horizoneye.com/blog/some-sufferers-from-dry-amd-may-finally-get-medical-help-with-syfovre Wed, 17 May 2023 02:53:34 +0000 https://www.horizoneye.com/?p=74660 Horizon Eye Care.

A breakthrough drug called Syfovre – the first approved by the FDA for dry macular degeneration – offers relief from the dry form of age related macular degeneration, or AMD. Syfovre specifically treats geographic atrophy (GA), a form of dry macular degeneration that results over time in extreme central vision loss. Age-related macular degeneration remains... Read More

The post Some Sufferers from Dry AMD Finally May Get Medical Help with Syfovre appeared first on Horizon Eye Care.

]]> Why Our Retinas Are Integral To Vision: They Convert Light Into Sight https://www.horizoneye.com/blog/why-our-retinas-are-integral-to-vision-they-convert-light-into-sight Mon, 17 Feb 2020 15:01:04 +0000 https://horizoneye.com/?p=69051 Horizon Eye Care.

Without your retinas, you couldn’t have sight. This layer of tissue half a millimeter thick – less than two-hundredths of an inch – lines the back of the eye. Its millions of light-sensing nerve cells, called rods and cones because of their shapes, convert light into electrical impulses; the optic nerve sends those to the... Read More

The post Why Our Retinas Are Integral To Vision: They Convert Light Into Sight appeared first on Horizon Eye Care.

]]>