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Egg Eye Injuries Send Docs Scrambling
Sept. 20, 2006 -- Attention ghouls, goblins, and ghosts: Don't even think about hurling eggs at people on Halloween. If an airborne egg smacks someone in the face, it may cause serious eye damage. Who would do such a thing? Apparently, it happens fairly often in Liverpool, England, especially around
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Higher Prices for Contact Lenses?
Sept. 15, 2006 -- A dispute between contact lens manufacturers, sellers, and eye care professionals could soon have 38 million consumers paying more for their lenses. The fight involves little-publicized distribution agreements that restrict sales of certain lens brands to doctor or optometrist offi
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Weightlifting May Boost Glaucoma Risk
Sept. 11, 2006 -- Weightlifting makes you stronger, but it might boost eye pressure, making glaucoma more likely. So say Geraldo Magela Vieira, MD, and colleagues in the Archives of Ophthalmology. Vieira works at the Institute of Specialized Ophthalmology and UNIPLAC medical school in Brasilia, Braz
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Update on Contact Lens Eye Infection
Aug. 22, 2006 -- Users of a recently recalled contact lens solution by Bausch & Lomb were more than 20 times as likely to develop a potentially blinding eye infection as nonusers. The CDC study released today shows that 164 confirmed cases of the corneal infection Fusarium keratitis were reported in
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Eat Your Veggies, Keep Your Vision
Aug. 14, 2006 -- Women who eat lots of leafy greens, broccoli, squash, corn, and peas may have sharper vision as they age. Those vegetables contain two nutrients -- lutein and zeaxanthin -- that may lower a healthy woman's risk of developing age-related macular degeneration macular degeneration (AMD
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Fish Oil May Help Save Your Eyes
July 10, 2006 -- To help save your vision as you age, you may want to give fish oil the thumbs up and cigarettes the thumbs down. Age-related macular degeneration macular degeneration (AMD) -- the leading cause of age-related vision loss -- is nearly twice as common in elderly smokers as nonsmokers.
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FDA OKs Macular Degeneration Drug
June 30, 2006 -- The FDA today approved Lucentis (ranibizumab injection) to treat patients with "wet" age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The eye disease is the leading cause of severe vision loss in people 60 and older. In AMD, the retina's central area (macula) deteriorates. In the "wet" AMD,
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Cholesterol Drugs May Avert Cataracts
June 20, 2006 -- Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs -- especially Zocor -- appear to lower the risk of the most common kind of age-related cataract. Cataracts Cataracts -- clouding of the lens of the eye -- become more common as people age. There's some evidence that cataracts are less common in peop
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Bausch & Lomb Recalls Lens Solution
May 15, 2006 -- Bausch & Lomb is recalling its ReNu with MoistureLoc contact lens solution worldwide. The recall comes in light of a spike in cases of a rare eye infection, Fusarium keratitis, in contact lens users. The recall doesn't include any other ReNu products or generic brands of the contact
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Eyesight Need a Fix? You're Not Alone
May 9, 2006 -- Millions of people in the U.S. have bad eyesight, and most of them could see more clearly with a little help. In The Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers estimate that approximately 14 million U.S. people aged 12 and older have "visual impairment," and that more th
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