1.   Hydrogel contact lenses, for example, can be used for the controlled release of antibiotics to patients waiting for cataract surgery.

2.   People who need cataract surgery are taken by bus to the nearest hospital for surgery, and returned home the next day.

3.   Age is not a factor in cataract surgery.

4.   Although surgery is the only treatment, not everyone with cataracts needs surgery, said Obstbaum, who is director of ophthalmology at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York.

5.   And several studies have shown that cataract surgery is twice as common among women.

6.   At least Travis can read the mail for himself now, thanks to cataract surgery on his left eye this spring.

7.   Ben Ortega, whose recent cataract surgery has forced him to take a break from the close-up work of carving, got his own start by accident.

8.   Boardman was practically blind before undergoing cataract surgery recently.

9.   After a while, the Brazilian felt he needed cataract surgery.

10.   Allison, who just had cataract surgery, said she sometimes cuts a pill in half to make one dosage last two days.