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Black Grease Seems Best For Eye Glare
July 14, 2003 - Baseball players had it right all along: To reduce eye glare, old-fashioned black grease works better than antiglare stickers, according to a new study. It's an issue of seeing a speeding object, like a football or baseball, while facing the full glare of the sun or lights. Sunlight
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Airbags Don't Pose Eye Injury Risk
June 24, 2003 - An airbag may very likely save your life during an automobile accident, and contrary to popular belief, it won't do so at the price of your eyesight. A new study shows the risk of eye injury due to a rapidly deployed airbag is extremely low and wearing glasses won't necessarily incre
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Obesity Linked to Blindness
June 12, 2003 -- Age-related macular degeneration -- a major cause of blindness -- is much more dangerous in obese people. And the bigger a person's waist, the greater the risk that macular degeneration will lead to vision loss, a new study shows. But there's also some good news in the report by Har
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What You Can Learn From Video Games
May 28, 2003 -- Even violent video games aren't all bad. A new study shows that playing action video games improves several key visual skills. The games that do this trick require a player to keep track of several changing objects at one time. These games also mean responding to separate tasks happe
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Lazy Eye in Children: Less Patch Time OK
May 12, 2003 -- Treatment for lazy eye in children is about to get much easier. A new study shows that wearing an eye patch for only two hours a day works just as well -- and just as fast -- as wearing the patch for six hours. It's been common wisdom that the more a kid with a lazy eye wears a patch
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Macular Degeneration Linked to Infection
April 24, 2003 -- Age-related macular degeneration may be linked to a pneumonia bug. If so, early antibiotic treatment might prevent some cases of this leading cause of blindness. There's a lot of suspicion that long-lasting infections may cause many cases of heart disease. The same process could be
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A Better Type of LASIK
April 23, 2003 -- A new procedure appears to provide crisper vision and fewer complications than the traditional type of LASIK surgery performed on millions of Americans each year -- without the cutting-edge of a surgeon-held knife. That's because it uses a special type of laser to more accurately p
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Some Patients Need Second LASIK Surgery
April 10, 2003 -- Will just one LASIK solve your vision problem? New data show some patients are at higher risk of needing a second LASIK. But there's good news -- even if another LASIK's needed. Using the same "flap" cut into the eye by the first laser surgery makes second LASIKs safer than ever
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Contact Lenses That Dispense Drugs
March 24, 2003 -- Drugs embedded in contact lenses could one day treat eye disorders like glaucoma. A team of chemical engineers has found a way to mix a drug into contact lenses -- which allows the drug to slowly be released into the eye, directly where it's needed. "One of the biggest problems wit
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Early Glaucoma Treatment Saves Sight
Jan. 24, 2003 -- Early treatment of glaucoma halves the risk of worsening disease, a major study shows. And since glaucoma usually causes no symptoms -- while at the same time stealing your sight -- this is even more reason to get your eyes checked regularly. Glaucoma occurs when pressure builds up
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