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DIFFERENT TYPES OF COLOR BLINDNESS
The term “color blindness” is somewhat misleading. The vast majority of individuals affected by some degree of color blindness don’t see the world in black and white, but merely have an altered or decreased ability to perceive colors. The occurrence of color deficiencies — especially in males — might be greater than you realize: as […]
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AMD
As you get older, your eyes become more susceptible to certain vision conditions. Glaucoma, cataracts, and eye floaters are some of the typical vision disorders found in elderly patients, but one of the most common vision problems is age-related macular degeneration (AMD). It is a slow-developing eye condition that causes you to develop a blurry […]
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5 MYTHS ABOUT CATARACTS
You probably first learned about cataracts when you were a child in school. You learned that a cataract is a cloudy film that forms over the lens of the eye, and eventually causes blurred vision and blindness. But, how much more have you learned about cataracts since then? If you’ve started to develop cataracts, or […]
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