Vision & Health Blog

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  Dental Care

  Problems with your teeth can affect how and what you eat. Poor dental health can also lead to pneumonia and heart disease. Gum disease and oral cancer, if found and treated early, need not become a major problem.

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  Chemical Dependency /Substance Abuse

  Substance abuse is a medical term used to describe a pattern of using something, either illegal or legal that causes significant problems or distress.

  

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  Asthma – A Quick Guide

  Asthma is a chronic lung disease that intermittently inflames and narrows the airways. People with asthma may experience wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, and coughing when the airways narrow.

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  Annual Screening for Cancer and other Conditions

  At the start of each year, we often set goal plans for ourselves. Plan to take care of your health by promptly scheduling all your recommended annual health screening tests at the beginning of the year. Many conditions such as high blood pressure, high lipid levels and colon cancer may not have early signs or symptoms.

  

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  How to View a Solar Eclipse Safely

  The only safe way to look directly at the uneclipsed or partially eclipsed sun is through special-purpose solar filters, such as “eclipse glasses” or handheld solar viewers. Homemade filters or ordinary sunglasses, even very dark ones, are not safe for looking at the sun.

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  June is Cataract Awareness Month

  Did you know by the age of 80, more than half of all Americans either have a cataract or have had cataract surgery? To help keep your vision healthy, here are seven facts you should know about cataracts.

  

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  Transformative Technological Advancements for the Patient with Low Vision

  The advancement of technology has transformed the world, including how we live, work and interact with one another. Many technological advances in optometry are specifically designed for patients with low vision.

  

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  Valentin Haüy and Louis Braille: Enabling Education for the Blind

  It was Haüy and Braille who would create an entirely new alphabet and establish the world’s first educational institutions for people who are blind, and form the foundation for future disability rights and the inclusion of people with blindness into society.

  

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  Monocular Vision: Etiology, Symptoms and Rehabilitation

  The main consequences of this – monocular vision – are lack of depth perception and restricted peripheral vision in one eye.

  

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  Strategies for Challenging Behaviors in Adult Day Health Care Settings

  Identify: “Challenging behavior” has become the most accepted term for actions whose intensity, frequency or duration puts the emotional and physical safety of the person or others in jeopardy.