Do you know how age-related macular degeneration could affect your vision?
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February Newsletter: Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Awareness Month
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February Newsletter: Why Dry Eye Is So Difficult to Treat
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Are dry eyes a frequent problem? Try these tips.
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January Newsletter: How to Tell if You Have Macular Degeneration
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Do you know the symptoms that may mean you have macular degeneration?
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January Newsletter: Glaucoma FAQs
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Got a few questions about glaucoma?
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December Newsletter: Don't Over-Indulge this Holiday Season - Your Eyes Will Thank You
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Could changing your holiday eating habits help you protect your vision?
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December Newsletter: Delicious Recipies that Are Healthy for Your Eyes
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Protect your vision with eye-healthy recipes.
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November Newsletter: 5 signs that could be caused by diabetic retinopathy
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These vision problems could spell trouble if you have diabetes.
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November Newsletter: Diabetic eye disease awareness month
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Do you know how diabetic eye diseases can affect your vision?
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Your Blurry Vision Could Be Caused by Astigmatism
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Wondering why your vision is blurry? A vision problem called astigmatism may be to blame.
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Dry Eyes? Blepharitis Could Be to Blame
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Are your eyes dry and uncomfortable? You may have blepharitis.
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Protect Your Eyes for Life: Healthy Aging Month
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Do you know how to keep your eyes healthy as you grow older?
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Ensure Your Child's Eyes Are Ready to Go Back to School
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Are your child's eyes up to the challenge of another school year?
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Vision Loss and Mental Health
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Feeling depressed after vision loss?
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Treatment Options for Presbyopia
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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
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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
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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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Autism
Category: Pediatric Vision
Symptoms and Problems Caused By Autism Autism is a neurological disorder in which the person has difficulty processing and reacting to information received from their senses. The individual also has trouble communicating and interacting socially. Signs of autism include: Lack of shared social interaction Postponement
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ADD/ADHD
Category: Pediatric Vision
Approximately 11% of school-aged children have been diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to recent studies. The central symptoms of ADHD -- difficulty sustaining attention, poor control of behavior, hyperactivity -- make it difficult for children to succeed in school.
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Ocular Motor Dysfunction
Category: Pediatric Vision
Parents are often aware of the need to screen children for nearsightedness or farsightedness, but fewer know about other pediatric vision problems. Ocular motor dysfunction is a condition that often manifests in childhood, although adults may also have this disorder. Because ocular motor dysfunction
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Convergence Insufficiency
Category: Pediatric Vision
Convergence insufficiency is a relatively common eye condition that is typically diagnosed in childhood. A study of two large optometry clinics found that 17.6% of children who received vision exams had convergence insufficiency. As this disorder may cause difficulty focusing on written pages, some children
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Accommodative Dysfunction
Category: Pediatric Vision
Simply put, accommodative dysfunction means that the eyes have difficulty focusing properly. Studies suggest that between 2 and 17% of children may suffer from accommodative dysfunction. The nature of this disorder means that it sometimes goes unnoticed in standard vision screenings conducted at school.
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Learning-Related Vision Problems
Category: Pediatric Vision
Learning disabilities may include dyslexia, math disorder, writing disorder, auditory processing deficits, or visual processing deficits. Although each child with a learning disability is unique, many also have associated visual problems. Addressing these vision disorders may alleviate some symptoms
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Pediatric Ophthlamology
Category: Pediatric Vision
Ophthalmology addresses the physiology, anatomy and diseases of the eyes. Pediatric ophthalmology focuses on the eyes of children. Pediatric ophthalmologists examine children’s eyes to see if they need corrective lenses or other treatments to improve their vision. Training for Pediatric Ophthalmologists Pediatric
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