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Insights Into Presbyopia
Read More: Insights Into PresbyopiaMay is Healthy Vision month. If youโre holding your smartphone at armโs length to read the screen โ not to take a selfie โ you could have presbyopia. Presbyopia is when your eyes lose the ability to focus on objects that are close-up. That sounds scary, but presbyopia is a natural part of aging and…
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What You Need to Know About Dim Light Disturbances
Read More: What You Need to Know About Dim Light DisturbancesPicture this: Itโs Friday night and you have plans to meet your BFF for dinner. You opt for a ride share, get in the car and notice the lights are glaringly bright โ beams extending up and out from passing headlights โ making it hard to see. If this sounds familiar, you could be experiencing…
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The Connection Between Autoimmune Disease and Dry Eye Disease
Read More: The Connection Between Autoimmune Disease and Dry Eye DiseaseJuly is Dry Eye Awareness Month. Blink twice if youโre reading this. How do your eyes feel? Are they irritated? Do you feel like you have grains of sand in your eyes but youโre nowhere near the beach? Do you have an autoimmune disease? That last question may seem random, but having an autoimmune disease…
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โThe Importance of an Eye Exam
Read More: โThe Importance of an Eye ExamMay is Healthy Vision Month. My partner, Tom, often brags about his great eyesight. And Iโve always just assumed he has perfect vision because heโs dating me. But I had to give him major side-eye when he told me itโs been decades since his last eye exam. To be clear, everyone should get an eye…
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A Glaucoma Diagnosis: Looking Beyond Drops for the Best Treatment Options
Read More: A Glaucoma Diagnosis: Looking Beyond Drops for the Best Treatment OptionsHindsight is 20/20 but maintaining good vision is a common concern as we age โ especially for women. In fact, 2 out of 3 people affected by blindness are women. Since women live longer than men, weโre at a higher risk for vision problems. And one of the biggest threats to healthy vision is glaucoma,…
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Going Blind Has Its Challenges, But Itโs Not as Scary as You May Think
Read More: Going Blind Has Its Challenges, But Itโs Not as Scary as You May ThinkApril is Womenโs Eye Health and Safety Month. As told to Nicole Audrey Spector We were toddlers when our parents noticed something was off. During the day, we were carefree and curious โ identical twin sisters exploring the world and touching everything we could see. But at night, we became shy and cautious of our…
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Womenโs Eye Health 101
Read More: Womenโs Eye Health 101April is Womenโs Eye Health and Safety Month. The facts are hard to read: Women are at greater risk for eye diseases and visual impairments and experience blindness or permanent vision loss more than men. Why? Research suggests that there may be hormonal differences that make women more likely to get eye diseases. Plus, women…
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Clinically Speaking: Questions to Ask Your HCP About Thyroid Eye Disease (TED)
Read More: Clinically Speaking: Questions to Ask Your HCP About Thyroid Eye Disease (TED)If you or someone you know has been diagnosed with thyroid eye disease (TED), itโs important to know that diagnosis and treatment require a thyroid eye disease specialist. TED specialists are ophthalmologists (a doctor who treats eye and vision issues) who have advanced training in thyroid eye disease. Having this information will also help you…
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The Phases of Thyroid Eye Disease
Read More: The Phases of Thyroid Eye DiseaseMedically reviewed by Raymond Douglas, M.D., Ph.D., Cedars-Sinai + Infographic text What is thyroid eye disease (TED)? TED is an autoimmune condition that causes your immune cells to attack the healthy skin and tissue around and behind your eyes. If you have a thyroid condition and are experiencing eye symptoms, you may have TED. TED…
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Thyroid Eye Disease 101
Read More: Thyroid Eye Disease 101Medically reviewed by Raymond Douglas, M.D., Ph.D., Cedars-Sinai November 14-20, 2022 is Thyroid Eye Disease Awareness Week. What is thyroid eye disease (TED)? Thyroid eye disease, or TED, is an autoimmune disorder that causes inflammation in the eye muscles, eyelids, tear glands and fatty tissues behind the eye. TED is sometimes called Gravesโ ophthalmopathy or…
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Top 10 Tips for Summer Eye Health
Read More: Top 10 Tips for Summer Eye HealthMedically reviewed by Brittani Carver-Schemper Itโs summer, and hopefully youโre enjoying a little sunshine. But do trips to the pool leave you with red, irritated eyes? Or have you noticed blurred vision or redness after simply being in the sun too long? Summertime poses a host of threats to our eye health โ from dangerous…
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Iโm an Optometrist, but That Didnโt Make It Any Easier to Tell My Grandmother She Has Macular Degeneration
Read More: Iโm an Optometrist, but That Didnโt Make It Any Easier to Tell My Grandmother She Has Macular DegenerationAs told to Jackie Froeber February is Age-Related Macular Degeneration Awareness Month. Imagine looking across the table at your loved one, but you canโt see their face. Instead, a large black blind spot takes over the center of your vision. No matter how hard you blink or rub your eyes, the blind spot stays. This…
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Do You See Red Like I See Red?
Read More: Do You See Red Like I See Red?By Bevil R. Conway, National Institutes of Health and Danny Garside, National Institutes of Health Is the red I see the same as the red you see? At first, the question seems confusing. Color is an inherent part of visual experience, as fundamental as gravity. So how could anyone see color differently than you do?…
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What You Need to Know About Glaucoma: Q&A With Dr. Marlene R. Moster
Read More: What You Need to Know About Glaucoma: Q&A With Dr. Marlene R. MosterJanuary is Glaucoma Awareness Month. To learn more about this disease, which affects millions of Americans, I reached out to Dr. Marlene R. Moster, a board-certified glaucoma physician at Wills Eye Hospital and a professor of ophthalmology at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Moster answered my questions via email. The transcript…
