Features Related to Eye Health

1. Soothe Your Sore Eyes
   

   By Hannah Wallace A medley of natural and medical remedies that can help you keep your sight just right Stinging red eyes, blurred vision, and a sensitivity to light: They all add up to dry eye syndrome (DES), one of the most common reasons Americans go to an ophthalmologist. OTC artificial tears or

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2. Keeping Your Eyes Strong and Healthy
   

   By Ted Spiker While you need them to do everything from checking e-mail to obeying stop signs, your eyes rank high on the preciousness priority scale for another reason: Because seeing helps you enjoy life—visually recording your favorite beach scene, your child's smile, or the delectable dishes in

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3. Contact Lenses: The Next Generation
   

   By Madeline Drexler Bifocals, multifocals, even corrections for astigmatism — with today's contact lenses, you may never need glasses again. First you wonder when they started printing menus in such tiny type. Then it's your computer: Did somebody fiddle with the display size? And what's with maps?

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4. 5 Ways to Protect Your Eyes in Summer
   

   Flying grit from off-roading or yard work, chemicals in pools, a sun that sears delicate tissues -- summer is an obstacle course for your precious eyes. You can still have fun, but you may need to take some steps to protect your peepers. A lot of this is common sense, which, sadly, is not always so

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5. 5 Ways to Protect Your Vision
   

   By Jennifer Nelson How to keep your peepers in sharp shape. You may think that losing your eyesight is something only your grandmother has to worry about, but the lifestyle choices you make now can directly affect your vision in the near future, says Joanna Fisher, M.D., chairperson of ophthalmology

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6. Implantable Contacts: Hope for Extreme Myopia
   

   If you're extremely nearsighted, you've probably dreamed of life without glasses or contacts. You watch through smudged lenses or cloudy contacts as your less visually challenged friends get LASIK surgery and throw away their spectacles. Now there's a new alternative to LASIK. You may be a candidate

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7. Natural Vision Correction: Does It Work?
   

   Promises that natural vision correction can improve eyesight without medication, surgery, or glasses have been around for years. The principle is that simple eye exercises can restore normal vision. It's appealing - but it's just not true, say the professional organizations that represent licensed o

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8. Elizabeth Goldring
   

   By Christian Debenedetti In a cluttered office on the third floor of the MIT Museum building in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a blue-eyed woman peers intently into a small white box. The box, cobbled together out of foam board, seems a common thing. But inside it, something extraordinary is revealing it

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9. How to Pick Good Sunglasses
   

   Do you love how cool your sunglasses make you look? If you really want to be comfortable in the glare and protect your eyes -- and your children's eyes -- from future cataracts, there is more to selecting sunglasses than mere "coolness" (desirable as that is). Although the human body is aces at repl

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