Feeling depressed after vision loss?
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Vision Loss and Mental Health
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Treatment Options for Presbyopia
Category: Newsletters
Over 40 and finding it hard to see close-up? One of these presbyopia treatment options could improve your vision.
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Summertime Allergies and Your Eyes
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Do you know how to treat your summertime eye allergy symptoms?
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Signs You May Have Macular Degeneration
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Could changes in your central vision be caused by macular degeneration?
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Glaucoma and You: The Importance of Eye Exams
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Want to avoid vision loss due to glaucoma? Schedule a visit with the eye doctor.
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Important Healthy Eye Habits for Kids
Category: Newsletters
Want to keep your kids' eyes as healthy as possible? Try these tips.
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Healthy Vision Month
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Get ready for Healthy Vision Month by upgrading your vision habits.
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Presbyopia eye drops
Category: Newsletters
Would you like to stop squinting when you look at close objects? A new kind of eyedrops can improve presbyopia, an age-related vision problem.
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Dry Eye
Category: Eye Symptoms
Sometimes your eyes don’t make enough tears or the tears evaporate too fast because they don’t have the right amount of compounds in them. This is called dry eye. Up to 5% of Americans complain of some form of dry eye. Individuals who wear contact lenses or have undergone LASIK or other types of
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Subconjunctival Hemorrhage
Category: Common Eye Conditions, Changes in Appearance
Similar to a bruise under the skin, a subconjunctival hemorrhage happens when a small blood vessel located between the sclera (white portion of an eye) and the conjunctiva (lining on the surface of an eye) breaks and covers the sclera with blood. Unlike broken blood vessels located under the skin which
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Decorative (Plano) Contact Lenses
Category: Contact Lenses
Colored contact lenses allow you to temporarily change your eye color whether or not you need to correct impaired vision. In this way, you can create a more subtle eye appearance, wear a crazy design for special occasions, or just enjoy a new eye color. Will Colored Contacts Change the Way I See? Yes,
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Wandering Eye
Category: Pediatric Vision
A wandering eye is a type of eye condition known as strabismus or tropia, and it may be caused by damage to the retina or muscles that control the eye, stroke or brain injury, or an uncorrected refractive error like farsightedness. With a wandering eye, one eye deviates or wanders in a different direction
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Reading and Writing
Category: Pediatric Vision
For many adults, reading and writing come so naturally that they seem almost effortless. However, reading and writing are actually complicated skills that take significant effort to learn. For example, reading involves recognizing letters, associating letter combinations with their corresponding sounds,
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Lazy Eye
Category: Pediatric Vision
Lazy eye, also referred to as amblyopia, is a condition that develops in infancy or early childhood, and it typically starts when the focus in one eye is more enhanced than the other. The eye with less focus might be impaired due to a significant amount of farsightedness or astigmatism, or something
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Dyslexia
Category: Pediatric Vision
Dyslexia When a child has difficulty reading due to problems recognizing speech sounds and learning how they connect to words and letters, the condition is known as dyslexia, a learning disorder caused by genetic traits that disturb how the brain works. It affects areas of the brain dealing with language
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Crossed Eyes
Category: Pediatric Vision
Crossed eyes, also known as strabismus, refer to a condition in which both eyes do not look at the same place at the same time. Often times they both turn in, but may also turn out. What Causes Crossed Eyes? The six muscles attached to each eye, which control how it moves, receive signals from the brain.
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