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The better to see you with
HealthKey.comDiabetes is a serious disease that can bring about complications such as blindness and other vision-related disabilities. According to Prevent Blindness America, diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness in adults 20-74 years of age. A...Tags: Cataracts, Social Issues, Health, Diabetes, Glaucoma
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Prevent Blindness enlists kids in battle for eye health
Some 30,000 Chicago Public Schools students will learn about eye health in a pilot program aimed to get children and their parents to take vision more seriously.
Prevent Blindness America, based in Chicago, gave the district 1,000 kits of its new Star...Tags: Chicago Public Schools, Health and Safety at School, Amblyopia, Health, Physical Conditions
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Doctors say you should get your vision checked regularly as you age
marieg@herald-mail.comDo you see what I see? If the answer to your eye doctor's question is no, it's probably time for stronger glasses. Or maybe the problem is something more serious. By age 65, one in three people has some form of vision-impairing eye disease, says the...Tags: Healthy Diet, Surgery, African Americans, Minority Groups, Diabetes
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Cornea transplant recipient hails procedure that can restore vision
![Even when Eugene "Yogi" Martin was in his 20s, he had the eyes of an older man.](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-01/59134945-31063018.jpg "Even when Eugene "Yogi\" Martin was in his 20s, he had the eyes of an older man.")
tiffanya@herald-mail.comEven when Eugene "Yogi" Martin was in his 20s, he had the eyes of an older man. Bright light hurt his eyes. The words in newspaper articles looked like "muddy" blurs. It was just so hard to see, he said. Decades of wearing hard contacts helped for a...Tags: Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), Surgery, Genetic Condition, Washington (U.S. state), National Institutes of Health
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Eyes on overtime
Angela Hilliard, a forensics specialist with the Glendale Police Department, didn't know why her eyes were red and dry, or why she was feeling exhausted at the end of the day.
As a crime scene investigator on burglaries, robberies, suicides and the very...Tags: Amblyopia, Sony Corp., Health, Symptoms, Physical Conditions
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Bill would allow optometrists to perform some surgeries
mmoore@jessaminejournal.comAfter much debate by Kentucky legislators, Senate Bill 110, which would allow optometrists to perform some uncomplicated medical procedures currently reserved for ophthalmologists, has made its way to Gov. Steve Beshear’s office. According to...Tags: Steve Beshear, Lifestyle and Leisure, Surgery, Kentucky, Glaucoma
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Optometrists, ophthalmologists not seeing eye to eye
eruehs@amnews.comDr. Jeffrey Klosterman is an optometrist in Harrodsburg. Dr. Linda Katz is an ophthalmologist in Danville. Ordinarily these two professionals would have a cordial relationship because both work for the welfare of their patients. However, this once...Tags: Steve Beshear, Surgery, Laws, Health, Regional Authority
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Gov. Beshear signs SB 110 into law
mmoore@jessaminejournal.comLess than a week after Senate Bill 110 appeared on his desk, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear signed it into law last Thursday, Feb. 24. “Access to quality health care is a critical issue for families across the commonwealth,” the governor said...Tags: Steve Beshear, Surgery, Kentucky, Health, Regional Authority
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Adopt a New Way of Thinking....Through Adoption
Adoption is a subject very near and dear to my heart. For one, I went through the process myself when I became a Bade legally. My biological dad was out of the picture and the Bades made me a part of their family album when Mom remarried. ...Tags: San Diego (San Diego, California), Condos and Houses, Ethiopia, DNA, United Nations
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