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About the Eye

Nearsightedness
Farsightedness
Astigmatism

Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Darren Bell, M.D.

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) has been in the news a lot recently, primarily because of newly developed pharmacologic therapies. While certainly welcome news for patients, unless you or someone you know has been diagnosed with AMD, you may wonder why it has received so much attention.

Presbyopia

Age-Related Farsightedness
Regardless of eye condition in your youth, your eyes will most likely begin to change as you reach your mid-40s and beyond.

Eye Injury Prevention

More than one million people suffer from eye injuries each year in the United States. Ninety percent of these injuries could have been prevented if the individual had been wearing appropriate protective eyewear.

Approximately 20.5 million Americans age 40 and older have cataracts.

Cataracts are the clouding of the eye’s clear lens; like a window that is “fogged” with steam. When the lens becomes cloudy, light rays cannot pass through it easily and vision becomes blurry.

Children’s Eye Health & Safety

Vision problems affect one in twenty preschoolers and one in four school-aged children.

80 percent of the world’s blindness is avoidable.

World Blindness Awareness
Every five seconds one person in the world goes blind. Below are the five leading causes of blindness and vision loss throughout the world.

Diabetic Eye Disease Awareness

Approximately 10.3 million Americans have diabetes. Over half of these individuals are at risk for vision loss and other health problems because they don’t know they have the disease.

Glaucoma is the second most common cause of blindness in the U.S.

Approximately 2.2 million Americans age forty and older have glaucoma and half are at risk of going blind because they do not know they have the disease. You could be one of them.

When Should Your Child Have an Eye Exam?

JEFFREY H. COHEN, M.D.

Great news for people with cataracts

Great news for people with cataracts: New lens implant technologies allow unprecedented flexibility of vision and freedom from glasses.
Scott A. Thomas, M.D.

Sports Eye Health

From major league stadiums to small-town courts, America’s favorite pastimes make great memories for many. But for more than 40,000 athletes, those memories are ruined by eye injuries, the vast majority of which were preventable.

Facts on Firework Eye Safety

Fireworks are exciting, fun and spectacular, but decades of experience have taught us that they are dangerous and should be left to professional firework handlers.

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