Everyone knows that a good night’s sleep is vital for overall health, but it’s also essential for keeping your eyes healthy. Many common eye problems such as dry eyes, blurred vision, and even cataracts can be caused or exacerbated by sleep deprivation. Here are some ways that sleep affects your eyes: 1. Lack of sleep...Continue reading
Unless you’re on a desert island, chances are there’s a laser within just a few feet of you. In fact, there’s a pretty good case to be made that our lives wouldn’t be the same without them. If you’ve got a cat or a dog, you’ve probably used a laser pointer to entertain yourself by...Continue reading
In the first part of this article, we introduced five remarkable innovations for treating eye conditions. They included an implantable telescope for sufferers of macular degeneration, a glasses-worn computer that reads—and speaks—text for vision impaired or blind people. Here are the remaining five from the top ten list compiled by israel21c.org.Continue reading
If you or anyone you know are visually disabled or have a medical condition of the eye, you’ll definitely want to know about some incredible scientific advances in treatment made by scientists in Israel. In this piece, we’ll discuss five of the top ten from an article on the website israel21c.org. In part 2, we’ll...Continue reading