Glaucoma is an eye disease characterized by damage to the optic nerve, which carries signals from your eyes to your brain. Without a healthy optic nerve, well, it’s kind of difficult to see. The problem with glaucoma (other than the fact that it causes irreversible vision loss) is that there
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It’s estimated that 100,000 people suffer a sports-related eye injury each year with 30,000 of them being treated in emergency rooms. When it comes to contact sports and sports involving projectiles (such as baseballs), eyes can often end up taking the hit. In fact, baseball is one of the top
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It’s no secret that a lot of diseases are influenced by lifestyle factors. For example, your risk of cardiovascular disease can be reduced through physical exercise. Avoiding cigarette smoke, whether that cigarette is dangling from your own lips or you’re inhaling second-hand smoke, is good for, well, pretty much everything.
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When talking about risk factors for various diseases, gender often comes into play. And we’re not just talking about being more at risk of ovarian cancer if you’re a woman or prostate cancer if you’re a man compared to the opposite gender. Just to name a few – if you’re
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You’re feeling a bit blurry, your vision is going in and out of focus… you think you’re getting some double vision… Do you need new glasses? Or could it be that you just had one too many glasses – of wine? Around the world, about 117 billion gallons of alcoholic
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Wouldn’t it be great if we could reverse aging? While we don’t want to go completely Benjamin Button, turning those white hairs into brown/black/blond/red hairs again and experiencing the knee joints of a spritely teenager again would be wonderful. Researchers from Harvard Medical School may have uncovered a new gene
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It may surprise you to know that your eyeballs are connected to the rest of your body. Now that you know, it shouldn’t surprise you to know that how one takes care of his or her body has the potential to affect the eyes and vision. Good nutrition and a
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Glaucoma is an eye disease you’re likely to have heard of before – whether it’s in the media, from your eye care practitioner, or your Great Aunt Edna announcing to the family that she’s been diagnosed with “gloocoma”. In the United States, approximately 3 million Americans have glaucoma. Specifically, in
