Asia's Best Doctors
Thursday Nov 20, 2008
Search the Medical Library: Asia's Best Doctors
CONDITIONS
Ophthalmology / LASIK Stories and Local Doctors
Blindness
CURRENT STORIES YOUR LOCAL Blindness DOCTOR
Vision Impairment Study Stories

Vision Impairment Study

If you think you might need glasses, but don’t, you’re not alone.

According to new research in the Journal of the American Medical Association, there are millions of Americans with vision impairment.

The most common reasons for vision impairment, fortunately, are refractive errors--when the lense of the eye doesn’t focus the image sharply on the retina, the seeing part of the eye. That’s where glasses and contact lenses come in. But you have to wear them to correct your vision.

“I wear glasses but only when I am in class to see the board.” Natalie admits what happens when she doesn’t wear her glasses: “It is all blurry.”

Hopefully all Natalie is nearsighted--meaning, she can’t see far away. (Read more about Vision Impairment Study)

Related Links:
Early On-set Glucoma Stories

Early On-set Glucoma

Marina Virdone can’t imagine not being a school teacher. She says next to taking care of her own children, teaching is her second greatest love. But, three years ago, life as Marina knew it was about to change. Marina had developed a severe eye infection that eventually turned into glaucoma.

“I said, my God, I’m young and I have children. I can’t afford to go blind,” says Marina Virdone.

At the young age of 39, Marina was faced with the possibility of losing her eyesight if she didn’t seek glaucoma treatment. “I had always thought of it as a disease that affects the elderly,” says Marina. (Read more about Early On-set Glucoma)

Related Links:
VISUALLY IMPAIRED FIND MEDICINE LABELS TOO SMALL TO READ Stories

VISUALLY IMPAIRED FIND MEDICINE LABELS TOO SMALL TO READ

74 year old Teresa Olender struggles to keep track of all of her medications.
“One is for the heart, one is for blood pressure, one is a water pill and the other one is for cholesterol,” says Teresa. Teresa’s problem is that she has poor eyesight, making it hard for her to the read the labels on her medicines. (Read more about VISUALLY IMPAIRED FIND MEDICINE LABELS TOO SMALL TO READ)

Related Links:
New Lasic Stories

New Lasic

Lasik is a new procedure that borrows technology from laser keratotomy and radial keratotomy to correct near sightedness and astigmatism. To correct near sightedness, doctors try to change the way light is refracted through the eye. (Read more about New Lasic)

Related Links:
Myopia Stories

Myopia

Myopia and Hyperopia are terms for near sightedness and far sightedness. (Read more about Myopia)

Myopia video  - Myopia
Related Links:
Macula Degeneration Stories

Macula Degeneration

Age related macular degeneration or AMD is the leading cause of blindness in people over 60 in the western world. (Read more about Macula Degeneration)

Related Links:
Low Vision Stories

Low Vision

There are many different conditions that can cause low vision and each condition affects sight in a different way. (Read more about Low Vision)

Related Links:
Glaucoma Stories

Glaucoma

Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible
blindness in the world today. (Read more about Glaucoma)

Related Links:
Diabetes Retinitis Stories

Diabetes Retinitis

The space at the front of the eye between the cornea and the iris is filled with a clear fluid known as aqueous humor. The central part of the eye is also filled with a gel-like substance called vitreous humor. (Read more about Diabetes Retinitis)

Related Links:
Detached_Retina Stories

Detached_Retina

Ideally light that enters the eye is refracted by the cornea, which is the clear covering on the front of the eye and is also refracted by the lens, coming to a sharp focus on the retina at the back of the eye. (Read more about Detached_Retina)

Related Links: