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Nearsightedness Is A Common Visual Impairment Condition
Nearsightedness And Your Vision Health Myopia, nearsightedness, or shortsightedness, is the most common cause of visual disorder in people under the...
Prioritizing Your Eye Health Can Fosters A Lifelong Healthy Vision
Lifelong Healthy Vision In the United States, a person loses his or her vision every seven minutes. Therefore, resulting in an economic loss of...
Eye Screening Can Provide Insights Into Optic Nerve Disorders
Nondestructive Testing To Identify Eye Diseases Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), a non-destructive medical imaging technique, is a technology for...
Sports Eye Safety And What You Should Know
April 2022 Is Sports Eye Safety About 100,000 people early are hurt by sports-related eye injuries. Many of these injuries, about 13,500, result in...
About 50% Of All Eye Injuries Occur At Home
March 2022 Is Eye Safety And Wellness Month There are approximately 300,000 workplace eye injuries that send people to the emergency room...
A Sudden Onset of Blurry Vision Could Be Serious
Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) And Vision Loss Recently, in early February 2022, we published an article on Age-Related Macular...
Healthy Eating Can Help With Managing Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
Important Facts About Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) AMD (Age-related macular degeneration) is an eye disease that impacts many people...
Glaucoma And Your Eye Health-January 2022
Do you know why the color Green is the color for Glaucoma? The green color is seen because of a mid-dilated pupil exposing the cataractous lens. The...
Happy New Year 2022: Eye Health The Cornerstone
Making Your Eye Health The Cornerstone Our vision is the most dominant sense. The eyes perform more than tasks, they are the doorway to which our...
The Anatomy Of The Eye: The Eye Is A Slightly Asymmetrical Globe
Eye Anatomy And Functions In 2021 we discussed important information about eye health, and diseases to enhance your knowledge specific to the eyes'...
You Spend Your 2021 FSA Dollars Or Lose It
2021 Year-End And Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Dollars A Flexible Spending Account (FSA) allows employees to put money into to pay for certain...
There Is A Strong Relationship Between Smoking, Cataracts And Diabetes
Smoking And Eye Diseases There is a strong correlation between Smoking, Diabetes, and Blindness. Smoking correlates to a range of vision health...
What is an Astigmatism and What is Keratoconus?
By Dr. Cheryl G. Murphy, OD It is not uncommon for patients to come in and ask their doctor what an astigmatism is or for them to become concerned...
Can Lifting Weights Damage My Eyes?
By Dr. Cheryl G. Murphy, OD Weightlifting can cause temporary but significant increases in eye pressure also known as intraocular pressure. In some...
Did My Eyesight Worsen During the Pandemic?
By Dr. Cheryl G. Murphy, OD Increased screen time and less time spent outdoors can have negative impacts on our eyesight and health. While it may be...
Can My Eyes Get Sunburned?
By Dr. Cheryl G. Murphy Warm weather is here and people just can’t wait to get outdoors. However, it’s important to remember, while enjoying some...
Dry Eye–Aggravated with Mask Wearing
As the crisp, cool air of Fall descends upon us in the Northeast, so does the time for us to get out our sweaters, cup our warm beverages and watch...
Blue Light Protection for Back-to-School
by Cheryl G. Murphy, OD Parents are doing as much as they can to safeguard their kids this year. Getting blue light protection for their childrens’...