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Mom's Summer Survival Guide: Fun in the sun ... safely
Temperatures are getting hotter, the days longer and school is almost out for summer. WSBT is continuing its series "Mom's Summer Survival Guide," by taking a look at protecting your child's skin and eyes this summer. There are three things no one...
Tags: Skin Conditions, Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure, Macular Degeneration
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Q&A: Ask the pediatrician! Dr. Diana Blythe answers your questions about kids' health
Have a question for Dr. Blythe? Write to her at AskThePediatrician@tribune.com
May 21, 2012
Q: My school-age children have been sick with colds lately and, because of conflicting information in the news, I'm still unsure about which over-the-counter...Tags: Calcium, Vitamin D, Symptoms, Urine, Strep Throat
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Lesson in bobcat sighting: Be prepared to capture on film
I never know what I'll encounter when I take a walk around the lake but I know enough to bring a camera along in case I happen to be in the right place at the right time to catch sight of something spectacular. It's a good thing I do because something...Tags: Health, Human Body
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Technology Backlash; Advanced Technology Taking a Toll on Kids' Eyesight
Advanced technology in the classroom is typically reason for celebration. However coupled with technology at home and nearly everywhere else has some Optometrists noticing a negative side effect to using technology. In the past three years Dr. Christine...
Tags: Gaming, York (York, Pennsylvania), Health, Entertainment, Health and Medical Professionals
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Rare disorder nearly takes Baltimore woman's sight
When Tamika Morgan developed red irritated eyes in the fall of 2010, she wasted no time heading to an optometrist at a local retail store who gave her drops for pink eye.
Her eyes got worse over the next few days so she went to a local hospital to see an...Tags: Health, Symptoms, Health and Safety at School, Steroids, Hospitals and Clinics
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Nepal's "magic" surgeon brings light back to poor
ReutersBy Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU, May 2 (Reuters) - Dressed in his hospital scrubs, Sanduk Ruit looks into the eyes of a patient through a microscope hanging over an operating table. He makes two tiny holes in one eye, takes out a jelly-like mass of natural...Tags: Blindness, Health, Nepal, Kathmandu (Nepal), Cataracts
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Vitamins E, C no help against vision disorder
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Taking vitamins E and C may do nothing to protect aging eyes from macular degeneration — the leading cause of vision loss in older adults, a new clinical trial finds. Researchers had been hoping the vitamins, both...Tags: Health, Harvard Medical School, Ophthalmology, Macular Degeneration, Vitamin C
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Eunice K. Cluck
EUNICE K. CLUCK-8-2-1919 Eunice K. Cluck, 92 passed away on April 19, 2012 in Newport Beach, Eunice was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 2, 1919. Eunice and her family lived in many parts of the country before settling in Southern California in 1970....
Tags: Macular Degeneration, University of California, Irvine
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Presbyopia question
Question: My eye doctor says I have presbyopia. What is it? I'm only in my 40's. Is this normal? Is there anything I should be doing for it? Answer: Presbyopia is part of the aging process. As we age the lens in the eye hardens, making it less...Tags: Health, Somerset County (Pennsylvania), Human Body
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Gardens from the heart
PETOSKEY — The top of David Penfold’s resume reads, “I can see a garden before it is planted. My gardens come from my heart.” And as you continue to read about his 27 years of experience in gardening, his talents become clear....
Tags: Retraining, Career and Workplace, Blindness, Health, Hobbies
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Should all African Americans get glaucoma screening?
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Screening middle-aged African Americans for glaucoma may prevent some from losing their vision, but the benefits are modest and costly, suggests a new study. About two percent of Americans over age 40 are affected by glaucoma,...Tags: Social Issues, Health, Medical Research, Ophthalmology, New York University
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Treatment improves for age-related sight loss
Peter Miller was a high-powered businessman who owned several electronic security firms when he was diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration in 1999. Like so many people who lose their central vision, Miller couldn't imagine life without the...
Tags: Health, Hospitals and Clinics, University of Chicago, Ophthalmology, Macular Degeneration
May 23, 2012
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May 1, 2012
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Apr 24, 2012
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Mar 13, 2012
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Mar 7, 2012
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