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Why do contact lenses make allergies worse? Did you know that the Alamo City ranked as the seventh-worst city for allergies in the U.S.? On a 100-point scale in which a higher score will land a city among the worst, San Antonio received a score of 87.21. And for those people that wear contact lenses…

Get Rid of Contact Lens Intolerance For Good Contact lens intolerance and irritation can have you seeing differently from one day to the next. Yesterday, you hardly knew your lenses were in your eyes, but today they became painful from the moment you put them in. Contact lens intolerance has an innumerable list of possible…

If you’ve ever stared at a computer Zoom meeting for hours on end (we’re with you, it could have been an email), binged Gossip Girl overnight, or played Super Smash Bros. all weekend… then your eyes might know what it’s like to feel as if they’ve been to the Saharan Desert and back. Or you…

Don’t Let Contact Lens Intolerance Cloud Your Vision More than 61% of Americans need help to see clearly. Over 45 million achieve this  by wearing contact lenses. Unfortunately, for nearly 5 million contact lens wearers, they suffer from a little known condition called CLI, or Contact Lens Intolerance. Those living with contact lens intolerance means…

  Gregory D. Parkhurst, MD, FACS, founder of San Antonio, Texas-based Parkhurst NuVision, has been honored with the On-Time Doctor Award of 2021 from Vitals. The award, which is determined by patients, recognizes medical services providers with the shortest wait times. Vitals, a healthcare database company, gathers upwards of 6 million reviews from patients annually…

Isella Gonzalez, an employee at Parkhurst NuVision will be one of the first people in the nation to receive the bilateral (both eyes) surgery with the Synergy IOL Lens. This new lens will enable her to see after surgery without glasses! Parkhurst NuVision is also one the first in the nation to use this new…

More and more people are choosing to get their vision correction this year!  The Refractive Surgery Council (RSC), which helps consumers make informed choices about their vision correction options, reported a strong start to 2021 with a nearly 30 percent rise in laser vision correction (LVC) procedures year over year. More than 220,000 LASIK, SMILE…

Quidel has announced that it will be partnering with Parkhurst NuVision (PNV) to become the first ophthalmic clinic in the nation to offer on-site rapid COVID-19 testing for employees, patients, and other doctors in the San Antonio area. “Throughout the pandemic, getting access to testing has been immensely vital, yet almost as difficult,” says PNV Clinic…

Parkhurst NuVision, an ocular disease and refractive/ocular surgery residency site in San Antonio, Texas, has matched with Lily Arendt. “We couldn’t be happier to bring another all-star onto the team,” says residency director Dr. Bobby Saenz. “The professors at the Houston College of Optometry consistently said she was the top graduating student in her class…

When we heard the news that we’ve earned the Vitals’ Compassionate Doctor Award for five years running, it was not only an honor, but also a goal accomplished. Since our inception, compassion has been a key value that we at Parkhurst NuVision strive to practice every day. From the team we hire to the attentive care provided. From the smiling photo…