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Vision Mission Peru 2013 Vision Mission Peru 2013 - Part 1 Watch video » Vision Mission Peru 2013 - Part 2 Watch video » It was finally happening after over nine months of planning, including a scouting trip last fall to a kilometer eight squatter’s community, Pucallpa, Peru, South America! This is a seven-year-old community of 8,000 people whose medical needs are met by Dr. Matthews, a local trauma and emergency room physician and medical director of the AMOR ... Read more »
2013 Virginia Beach Polar Plunge
The Polar Plunge took place at the Virginia Beach oceanfront this past Saturday. According to the Virginian Pilot, some 3,312 people took the plunge and raised $1,250,000 for the Special Olympics. The Beach Eye Care Polar Plunge Team raised $1303! ... Read more »
2012 MMM-EyeSight2020 Outreach, Hospital-Base, Education and Vision2020 Advocacy Activities
Two thousand poor and low income patients served within Surigao del Sur. Thank you friends, partners and stakeholders for your continued support. May the Lord continue to inspire us for the years to come. We are now open to accept requests for eye care outreach and mission projects for 2013. Many thanks. ... Read more »
2012 Food Drive
Beach Eye Care donated over 500 cans of food and $200 in cash to the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia! Donations will be accepted at all three Beach Eye Care locations throughout the holiday season. ... Read more »
In Your Eyes: What They Reveal About Your Health
As an ophthalmologist, David Ingvoldstad sees much more about his patients' health than just their eyes. Thanks to the clues the eyes provide, he regularly alerts patients to possible autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, monitors progression of their diabetes and once even suspected—correctly, as it turned out—that a patient had a brain tumor on the basis of the pattern of her vision changes… The Wall Street Journal – Full Article ... Read more »
Beach Eye Care recognized by The Council of Garden Clubs of Virginia Beach
August 6, 2012 Beach Eye Care recognized by The Council of Garden Clubs of Virginia Beach for consistently maintaining an attractive and litter free premises. Click here to view certificate ... Read more »
Cataract surgery can reduce hip fractures
ASCRS EyeWorld Weekly A new study has confirmed that that the risk of hip fractures was significantly reduced in patients who had had cataract surgery, compared to patients who did not undergo the procedure, according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology (San Francisco), which collaborated on the study with the Jules Stein Eye Institute (Los Angeles). According to AAO, the medical records of about 400,000 Medicare beneficiaries who had cataract surgery were analyzed for hip fractures that ... Read more »
Eye Opening Ghana 2012
Setting foot in Africa in June to help our Ghanaian brothers and sisters proved to be an impressionable experience that was both remarkably rewarding and profoundly educational. The Neatrour family (all 5) and Andrew (one of Kristin's fellow medical school students), with the help of Unite for Sight (UFS) and Montero Medical Missions, teamed up to deliver vision to those needing provisions as simple as reading glasses or eye drops to providing improved sight through cataract or pterygium ... Read more »
Black Eyed Peas’ apl.de.ap Gets Corrected Vision With Life-Changing Surgery
As a member of the Grammy Award-winning group the Black Eyed Peas, apl.de.ap has rocked a million faces, but he hasn’t seen them all. The 37-year-old Filipino-American rapper, drummer and record producer was born with a condition known as nystagmus, which is characterized by an involuntary movement of the eyes that limits vision. Read full article on abcnews.com ... Read more »
5 Health Hazards Your Eyes Expose
Dr. Lipton with Beach Eye Care shares how your eyes could show the first signs of potential illness. It's easy enough to spot hazards when they're glaring you in the face—massive signs, flashing lights, caution tape—but it takes an extra level of attention to detect those threats that aren’t so obvious. In this case, a serious health condition. And we’re not just talking about eye disease. Did you know that your eyes can show tons of subtle cues to tip you off to serious, underlying health ... Read more »
