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Women’s Unique Vision Issues

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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 [...]

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The Gift of Sight

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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, [...]

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Effects of Smoking and 2nd Hand Smoke on Your Eyes

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We all know that smoking is bad for you, but did you know that the chemicals in cigarettes can harm the most sensitive part of the retina, called the macula. Your vision can be irreversibly damaged when cells of the macula die or tiny blood vessels burst through it. And this isn’t just for those [...]

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Five Steps to Help Prevent Macular Degeneration

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Walking down the street one day, you notice that the telephone pole in front of you is looking rather odd. Instead of standing upright as it ought to, it looks, well… wavy. You glance around at the side of the building next to you, and it, too, is not its usual straight self. Don’t worry, [...]

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