5 Tips For Younger-Looking Eyes
There are lots of perks to getting older... Retirement, travel, stability, grandkids, etc. However, few of us want to look older.
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An Allergy Season Survival Guide For Your Eyes
Spring is wonderful, isn’t it? The weather warms up, the days stretch out, and flowers bloom. However, spring also marks the beginning of allergy season!
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Why Does Chopping Onions Drive Us To Tears?
Tears and a runny nose? Looks like that recipe called for freshly chopped onion! What is it about onions that sends our tear ducts into overdrive?
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Try These Eye-Healthy Smoothie Recipes
The right nutrients help protect our eyes from the effects of aging and eye disease.
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3 Tips For Protecting Your Eyes During The Winter
We typically worry about staying warm during the winter months, and think less about protecting our eyes. However, the winter months can be as hard on our eyes as the summer months.
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Houseplants For Healthier Eyes And Cleaner Indoor Air
Did you know that indoor air is often more polluted than outdoor air? In fact, indoor air pollutants may be 2–5 times higher than outdoor pollutants!
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Help elderly maintain independence with 7 sight-saving tips
San Francisco—The American Academy of Ophthalmology recently issued seven tips to give to your elderly patients to help them take care of their eyes as they age to ensure they can maintain their independence. Though many vision-impairing eye diseases are age-related—such as cataracts, glaucoma, age related macular degeneration—in most cases, proactive steps and preventative care […]
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Like a bad habit: Patients’ 6 common contact lens mistakes
Acanthamoeba keratitis is not a virus, but it spread like one recently in a horrifying Internet tale of optometrists’ warnings come true. A Taiwanese student reportedly went blind after she left a pair of disposable contact lenses in her eyes for six months straight, allowing the infectious amoeba to eat away at her corneas. It’s […]
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Transitions Photochromic Lenses Available in New Graphite Green
Essilor, the world’s leading manufacturer of optical lenses, and Transitions Optical have partnered to develop and launch the new Transitions® SignatureTM VII lenses in a graphite green color. Using a special dye formulation, these new lenses provide natural vision and true color perception in a variety of light conditions. Eyecare professionals and patients around the world might […]
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Shocking Effects of Tobacco on Eyes
Is Cigarette Smoke Tied to Vision Loss? Smoking tobacco doesn’t only put a person’s lung and heart health in jeopardy. Cigarette smoke contains as many as 4,000 harmful active compounds, including tar, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, and heavy metals that pose a risk to eye health, too. According to the Centers for Disease Control, […]