Author Archives: Dr. McAdoo
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Recycling Contact Lenses At Tigard Eyecare
Posted on November 10, 2026 by Dr. McAdoo in News.We have been grateful for our opportunity to help keep our planet green for seven years. To date, our patients and this office have returned to recycling over 82 POUNDS of contact lens packaging and materials! However, due to rising costs, we will be discontinuing our partnership with TerraCycle and Bausch & Lomb’s recycling program, […]
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October 2026: News you can use
Posted on October 27, 2026 by Dr. McAdoo in News.What’s New in Eye Health: Four Developments Worth Knowing About Eye care research moves quickly. Here are four recent developments, and what they mean for you and your family. Your Eyes May Offer Clues About Your Whole-Body Health A growing field called Oculomics studies what images of the eye can reveal about health elsewhere in […]
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Eye Health News you can use, Sept 2026 edition
Posted on September 22, 2026 by Dr. McAdoo in News.On GLP-1 medications (Wegovy, Ozempic)?New research is looking at a possible link between these medications and a rare type of “eye stroke” (non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy) that can cause sudden vision loss. If you’re on one of these medications and notice sudden vision changes, don’t wait — contact our office or seek emergency care […]
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Tigard Eyecare: Flattening the Curve
Posted on March 19, 2020 by Dr. McAdoo in News.Let’s wish each other health & wellness as we work together to FLATTEN THE CURVE. In compliance with CDC guidelines during the COVID19 pandemic, we will temporarily stop seeing patients at 6pm Thursday March 19, until further notice. Please be assured that we are still available to help you with vision-related needs during this challenging […]
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Contacts & the Zombie Apocalypse
Posted on May 10, 2015 by Dr. McAdoo in News.It’s a question we field at least once per week: What’s one to do if the Zombie Apocalypse happens, and you can’t get any more Contacts? This article from Mental Floss gives some good ideas and thoughts on the subject: CL’s & the Zombie Apocalypse Fortunately, we are not (yet) in this predicament. If it’s […]
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Van Gogh’s Starry Night comes alive!
Posted on May 9, 2015 by Dr. McAdoo in News.Optical Illusions Here’s something fun for your weekend! Optical illusions are usually static images, but this particular illusion takes advantage of how the brain processes moving images. The illusion is 70 seconds in length, and is linked directly below (click on the arrow). The first part of the illusion is only 30 seconds long. Be […]
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Possible cure for Color Blindness
Posted on April 28, 2015 by Dr. McAdoo in News.A married scientist couple from Seattle, WA, has been doing some significant research for many years, trying to find a cure for genetic color blindness. The woman’s brother is a color-blind man from birth, so she has been motivated to help him and others with the same condition. Now it seems there may be some […]
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Contact lenses for Sports?… of course!
Posted on March 31, 2015 by Dr. McAdoo in News.When my parents gave me Contact Lenses for my 14th birthday, it was at a time that contact lenses were a very expensive option for vision correction. But, oh my!… what a difference in my life they made! I was on the track team as a sophomore, and glasses bouncing up and down (and sometimes […]
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Myopia boom worldwide
Posted on March 25, 2015 by Dr. McAdoo in News.Those of us in the optical world have been witness to an increasing trend in our children: more nearsightedness, and often in high amounts, that can progress from year-to-year. For many years, vision scientists thought it was because children were being required to do increasing amounts of reading and computer work. But a study a […]
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Snakes and our Vision
Posted on March 20, 2015 by Dr. McAdoo in News.We may have developed the ability to resolve fine detail (known as “clarity”) as well as our color vision in order to defend ourselves from snakes. Retinal receptors were refined to differentiate a snake’s presence from a simple stick on the ground or a branch in a tree. See the article here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2015/03/19/394099609/we-may-have-snakes-to-thank-for-our-acute-vision Careful out […]
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