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Prevent Blindness America - Protect Your Eyes from the Sun!
Prevent Blindness America is the nation's leading volunteer eye health and safety organization dedicated to fighting blindness and saving sight. Sunglasses help you in two important ways. They filter light and they protect your eyes from damaging ...More…
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Prevent Blindness America - UV Protection
Prevent Blindness — UV rays can come from many directions. They radiate directly from the sun, but they are also reflected from the ground, from water, snow, sand and other bright surfaces. Eyewear that absorbs UV rays gives you the most protection. All types of ...More…
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Prevent Blindness America - Living with Low Vision
Prevent Blindness — There are many places you can go for help if you have low vision. A number of agencies and organizations across the country can provide information about support and rehabilitation services, as well as other resources. Call Prevent Blindness ...More…
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Prevent Blindness America - Test Your Child's Eyes
Prevent Blindness — Vision problems that are left undetected and untreated may lead to vision loss and in some cases blindness. Early detection is the key to minimizing vision loss. Prevent Blindness America offers the following home eye tests: Before you give any ...More…
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Prevent Blindness America - Common Children's Eye Problems
Prevent Blindness — Without good vision, a child's ability to learn about the world becomes more difficult. Vision problems affect one in 20 preschoolers and one in four school-age children. Since many vision problems begin at an early age, it is very important that ...More…
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Prevent Blindness America - Medicare Benefits and Your Eyes
Prevent Blindness — The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 authorized Medicare coverage of an initial preventive physical examination, the "Welcome to Medicare Physical." Medicare will cover this examination only if it occurs within the first six months that a ...More…
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Prevent Blindness America - Floaters
Prevent Blindness — Floaters are the small spots you may occasionally see in your field of vision. The medical name for floaters is muscae volitantes. Floaters can be seen in many different forms, including dots, threads, or cobwebs. Floaters may seem to dart away ...More…
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Prevent Blindness America - Healthy Living, Healthy Vision
Prevent Blindness — Good health is an important part of good vision. The healthier you are, the better chance you have of avoiding risks to your eyes. You can lower your risk of eye disease and vision loss if you: Quitting smoking can have many good effects on your ...More…
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Welcome to Prevent Blindness America
Prevent Blindness — Prevent Blindness America is the leading volunteer eye health and safety organization dedicated to fighting blindness and saving sight. Since 1908, Prevent Blindness America has been the nation's leading volunteer eye health and safety ...More…
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Prevent Blindness America - Color Blindness
Prevent Blindness — The correct name for color blindness is color vision deficiency. Color vision deficiency is a term used to describe a number of different problems people have with color vision. These problems may range from a slight difficulty in telling ...More…