• Are Contact Lens Wearers More Prone to Eye Infections?

    New research from the NYU Langone Medical Center has showed that changes in bacteria populations may be the reason contact lens wearers are more prone to certain types of eye infections. For people who wore contacts, the bacteria on the surface of the eye was…

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  • How Does Normal Eyesight Develop?

    It takes years for normal vision to develop, although most of that development occurs in the first year. Although infants are not born with full visual ability, they will acquire proper focus, tracking, color perception and depth perception. After nine years…

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  • How to Protect your Eyes While Playing Sports

    According to Prevent Blindness America, hospital emergency rooms treat more than 40,000 sports-related eye injuries a year; and this doesn’t include eye injuries that don’t require an emergency room visit. Any sport with frequent body contact or flying objects…

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  • How Smoking Harms Your Vision

    With adverse health effects like heart disease and cancer, smoking is the single largest cause of disease and premature death in the U.S. The danger to the eyes may be less well known, but no less debilitating. Smoking increases the risk for developing a variety…

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