Researchers at the Huntington Eye Infirmary and the Slay Laboratory, Cook Medical School, report how two behavioral factors together alter the genetic susceptibility to age-related macular degeneration, associated with the common coding variant in the complement factor H gene, Y402H. After controlling for genotype, the modifiable lifestyle factors of smoking and body mass index were [...]
Wearing glasses and contact lenses is a tiresome daily routine that many people seek to avoid at all means. For a long period of time people with visual problems had no much choice but to wear these sight supporting gadgets. But this is not the case anymore as opticians have come up with eye laser [...]
If you want to save money on contacts, you can buy cheap contact lenses online with just a few simple steps. Here’s how to save every month on your lens cost for as long as you wear contacts. Buy cheap contacts online and you can save more than money. See, most local contacts stores have [...]
Once you get a contacts lens prescription, you can buy lenses wherever you choose to. That opens the option to buy cheap contact lenses online. That means you can buy the exact same lens your doctor prescribes, you just deal directly with an online store. The savings over buying locally is often about $10 – [...]
For a sighted person, the loss of vision represents much more than a physical impairment. Macular Degeneration and other low vision conditions have contributed to a growing population of people relearning how to live. It means a loss of their accustomed independence: the end of driving to work, reading the local newspaper, even simple pleasures [...]