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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its estimate of autism prevalence in the United States to 1 in 88 children. (1 in 54 boys and 1 in 252 girls.)  Vision (not eyesight) is an important part of the problems associated with autism.

In patients, whether young or old, sometimes poor vision can be due to several possible factors including anatomical changes or defects in the eye or visual system, diseases affecting the eye, side effects of medicine or eye injuries. Many people also suffer from visual abnormalities due to aging or eye...

April is Women's Eye Health and Safety Month. Women go through various stages throughout their lives, and each can impact vision differently. Eye disease among women is becoming more common, more notably in older women. In fact, studies show that the majority of women going through middle age have some...

With the spring, along with more opportunity to be involved in outdoor sports, comes a rise in the prevalence of eye injuries caused by sports accidents. Each year, far too many children and adults sustain sports related eye injuries that could easily be prevented with the right protection. Guarding your...

Safe driving is dependent upon on good vision. If you think about it, driving safely depends on several different visual abilities - for example, distance and near vision, side or peripheral vision, night vision and color vision, plus many others. Being able to see well into the distance is vital...

In order to enlighten businesses and their employees about the importance of eye wellness, and to provide advice on how to avoid vision-endangering eye incidents, Prevent Blindness America (PBA) has marked the month of March as Workplace Vision Wellness Month. Each day, employees suffer from workplace related eye injuries that...

The part of the eye that surrounds your iris and pupil is your cornea, which is, under usual circumstances, round. When light hits the eye, part of the role of your cornea is to help project that light, directing it toward your retina, in the anterior portion of your eye....

Conjunctivitis, also called pink eye, is one of the most common eye infections, especially in children. Pink eye can be caused by viruses, bacteria or even hypersensitivity to ingredients in cosmetics, pollen, and chlorine in pools, or other irritants that touch your eyes. Many kinds of conjunctivitis are quite communicable...

February has been designated by Prevent Blindness America to raise awareness about age related macular degeneration (AMD) and low vision. Are you aware that age related macular degeneration (AMD) is one of the primary causes of loss of vision in adults over the age of 65? AMD is a condition...

A study performed by Bausch & Lomb this past August showed that an alarming number of adults regularly use strange lubricants instead of contact solution to keep their lenses moist. Products including baby oil, beer, coke, petroleum jelly, fruit juices, butter and others were all mentioned as occasional substitutes, by...