Category: Cataracts

Cataracts don’t get much press, but they should. They’re a major cause of vision loss. In the United States, more than 4 million people have vision-impairing cataracts, and some 500,000 people have cataract surgery every year. Those operations cost a lot of money—about $3 billion a year. In fact, cataract surgery is one of the largest items in the Medicare budget. Researchers at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston, estimate that if cataract surgery could be delayed just five years, Medicare would save more than $1 billion annually.

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