There are many differences between men and women — even when it comes to vision and eye health. 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 women do to address th...

When we think of the traits of an athlete, we usually think of speed and strength first. A close third should be their visual skills. Athletes need to be able to process and react to visual information very quickly in order to play their sports well. The cool thing is that some of these visual sk...

Do you have a refractive error like astigmatism, myopia, or hyperopia? If so, you likely have contact lenses or glasses to adjust your vision.

A habit of rubbing your eyes could come back to bite you. 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 in reality we could be creat...

Stopping to smell the spring flowers can be hard when your nose is stuffy and your eyes are swollen. What makes red, puffy, itchy eyes so common in the springtime? While it’s often allergies, it isn’t always, so let’s take a look at what can cause allergy system this time of year — along ...

We blink our eyes several times every minute of the day, but why do we need to? Count the number of times you blink in a minute (when you do this, don’t try blinking more or less frequently than you normally would). The typical number of blinks per minute for an adult is between ten and twenty,...

From when children are born till they are eighteen, their visual systems are constantly developing. Between one and eight years old, they experience their most significant growth. At this time, most of their visual system problems may develop. Some of these are hereditary, while the environment influences some. One common eye condition that affects a significant number of children is myopia.

Anyone who enjoys a nice tan should be aware of the risks of tanning booths. 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 beds, and the World Health Organizatio...

Headaches can have a number of causes you wouldn’t expect, like an uncorrected vision problem. If you live with frequent headaches, it would be well worth your time to schedule an eye exam, if only to rule out a vision problem as the cause. Not all headaches are tied to vision and not all visio...

March is Workplace Eye Wellness Month, which makes it a great time to discuss eye safety on the job. 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 likely to cause a lot of...