It started with phone calls, led to texting and calendars and games, and now it seems, whether you’re on a Blackberry, iPhone, Google Android, or Windows Mobile, your smart phone can do anything – from setting your oven timer to mapping your hiking trial via GPS to editing your digital photos. You can even download [...]

According to the National Eye Institute, twice as many women as men are diagnosed with vision-threatening diseases each year. Across the globe, women are more likely to suffer blindness and vision loss. Of the common eye diseases, dry eye syndrome is two to three times more common in women than in men at any age [...]

Floaters are: a. Wisps of cloud moving across the sky b. Air-filled mattresses for summertime fun on the lake c. Insects that have accidentally fallen into your lemonade d. None of the above If you chose “d,” then you are correct. If you’ve ever noticed small specks or shadowy shapes moving in your field of [...]

Google “healthy habits” and you get about 8 million pages. Googling “bad habits,” though, yields a rich trove of over 18 million pages, on subjects ranging from bankruptcy to thumb-sucking to watching too much TV. We’re so used to seeing the words “bad” and “habit” together — like Simon & Garfunkel, peanut butter and jelly, Shakespeare and [...]

The French have their Bûche de Noël, a chocolate-buttercream-frosted sponge cake in the shape of a yule log. U.S. Southerners consume black-eyed peas on New Year’s day for luck in the coming year. Austrians and Bavarians enjoy their intricately molded springerle cookies during the holidays, while Mexicans prepare Bacalao a la Vizcaina, a dish of [...]

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust Of course, Proust, a novelist, was speaking metaphorically. But what if you could really give the gift of sight this holiday season? With the Rebuild Your Vision Program, you can. And the best part is, unlike glasses, [...]

It’s December. You’ve got presents to purchase, parties to plan for, packages to mail, and a house to decorate. With so much to do-and see-this time of year, don’t let an eye injury disrupt your holidays! We here at Rebuild Your Vision have put together some handy tips on caring for your eyes this season, [...]