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Understanding Genetics

This is a very interesting question! We know the what of your question but the why is still fuzzy. Eye color is the result of variations in the amount of melanin, a pigment found in the front part of the iris of the eye. The lack of this pigment results […]

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Head Down Yoga Poses Increase Eye Pressure In Glaucoma Patients

Four common yoga poses have been shown to increase intraocular pressure (IOP), a known risk factor for people with glaucoma. A new study found that when people did head-down poses, their IOP increased within one minute of doing each pose. The increase remained throughout each two-minute pose, then IOP returned […]

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Researchers Link Chronic Pain Syndromes And Dry Eye

In a study of 154 patients with dry eye from the Miami Veterans Affairs Hospital, higher levels of pain, both ocular and non-ocular, and lower depression scores and lower quality of life indices were consistent with a central sensitivity disorder in these patients, according to a press release from the […]

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Prevent Blindness

Report Shows Increase in Toy-related Injuries Treated in U.S. Emergency Rooms CHICAGO (Nov. 23, 2015) – In 2013, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) estimated that hospital emergency rooms across the country treated 265,700 toy-related injuries, compared to 265,000 the year before. And, 73 percent of those injuries were […]

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Focusing On Refractive

Short sightedness appears to have reached epidemic proportions worldwide. This has been particularly evident in East Asia where today up to 90% of Chinese teenagers and adults are myopic, and a remarkable 96.5% of 19-year-old males in Seoul Korea are myopic. New scientific studies are now shedding light on the […]

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