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Use Your Glasses to Flatter Your Face Shape

We might recommend adding face shape to your list. Wearing glasses is like having a facial feature you can customize, and they’re a very noticeable part of your appearance...


Why Sunglasses Matter

Most of us end up outside more often in the warm summer months, and that can expose our eyes to a lot of harmful UV radiation from the sun...


Do Men and Women Always See Eye to Eye?

Men, for example, are more likely to experience sight-threatening eye injuries than women, whereas women tend to be more vulnerable to certain eye diseases. So what can men and...


Germs and Our Eyes

We do that sort of thing without really thinking about it in moments when we’re tired, when we get something stuck in one eye, or when our eyes feel dry or itchy. It’s an attempt to alleviate the problem, but...


Tanning Beds: Not Optometrist Approved

Those risks include ones to eye health. A group of physicians, dermatologists, surgeons, and even eye doctors went before Congress to describe the negative health effects of tanning...


Eye Health and Safety at Work

That will mean very different things depending on your line of work. A manual labor job can present a lot of direct dangers to eye safety, while an office-type job is more...


Our Top Lens Care Tips

If you wear glasses or contacts, you probably remember what it was like the first time you put them on and could suddenly see individual blades of grass and leaves on trees...


What Is Heterochromia?

A striking pair of eyes can make a deep impression, and what could be more striking than a pair of eyes that don’t match? In scientific terms, that’s heterochromia, a phenomenon fairly...


Spotlight: Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the slow loss of central vision due to the deterioration of the macula, the part of the retina with the highest concentration of photoreceptor...


Tips on Maintaining Healthy Eyesight

As many as one in six adults struggle with sight-threatening eye conditions and far more than that live with some level of vision loss as they get older. Age is a risk factor for many of the...


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