Weak Eyes, Strong Eyes
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Can wearing prescription glasses weaken your eyesight even more?
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NEW YORK  - Children with "lazy eye" --  technically called amblyopia -- may resist wearing an eye patch  or glasses to correct the condition, but these treatments are  unlikely to cause long-lasting emotional harm to children, UK  researchers report.
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Many herbal remedies and nutritional supplements can damage the eyes, including some alternative therapies that are used by people trying to correct eye problems, new research reports.
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Take a close look, and you might like what you see.
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A campaign for sunglasses carries a theme â âNever hideâ â that seems counterintuitive when you consider the product.
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Star gazing Also in this week's column:â¦
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Heavy use of computers may be linked to the development of a progressive eye disease, researchers claim. A study in Japan has found that staring at a screen could be related to glaucoma, which can lead to blindness.
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Nearly one-quarter of elderly people undergoing rehabilitation following hip fracture have failing eyesight, and this impairment appears to impede their recovery, according to new research.
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NEW YORK  - Children whose weight was low  when they were born have "a small but statistically significant  deficit" in their vision by the time they are 10 to 12 years  old, according to UK researchers.
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Until recently, the needs of visually impaired users wasn't a top priority for search engines. That's changed, but there are still issues that need to be resolved, according to people with vision challenges.
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Focusing your attention on an object can actually impair rather than aid your perception of it, researchers find.
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In 1985, Brian Calen claimed he was blinded in the right eye in a cruise ship accident. Seven years later, he said a ship's telescope blinded him again. Then, he said, he was blinded on two more trips &#151; by a champagne bottle and a flying disc. All in the same eye.
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Watching a computer screen for nine or more hours a day might be linked to a progressive eye disease that can blind without treatment, researchers warned yesterday.
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Keynote Kathy Sierra gives designers the antidote for apps that can't read faces, movement, tone or anything: Give users a way to express themselves. Plus: TV panel goes rogue. In Listening Post.
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Schools and pediatricians have performed vision screenings for decades, perching entering kindergartners in front of the familiar "big E" eye chart and asking them to read off increasingly smaller rows of letters or, sometimes, pictures. Early detection of vision problems is critical, say...
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Hearing loss and poor vision are common problems, but the combination -- especially in multiple members of the same family, some in their early 20s and 30s -- is striking.
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Myopia linked to modern life? Also in this week's column:â¦