Health Services Minister Kevin Falcon is correct when he suggests that the government is not relaxing requirements for eye health exams. The government has been relaxing the requirements and the education about eye health for more than a decade. Our government seems determined to ignore the benefits... 

During the eighth annual Healthy Vision Month observance this May, the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health, encourages community organizations and the American people to make vision health a priority. This year’s theme, “Your Eyes are the Windows to Your Health,”... 

There are more myths about the eye and vision than you can shake a stick at! Some of them are outrageously impossible. Others have just enough believeability that they deserve to be dealt with. Let’s look at some of these myths. You have probably heard such myths repeated since your childhood.... 

Landon Djannie didn’t like the special lights and lenses that Jasmine Yumori was using to examine his eyes. Yumori patiently worked with the 11-month-old, cooing and praising him when he kept still long enough to have a good look in his eyes. Yumori, a doctor of optometry and a professor in the... 

Glaucoma is a condition of the eye in which a build-up of pressure inside the eye causes degenerative changes that damage the retina and optic nerve, therefore resulting in blindness. Your eye needs a certain amount of pressure to keep the eyeball in shape so that it can work properly. In some people,... 

PITTSBURG — EyeCare for Women — a special program supported by the Rita J. Bicknell Women’s Health Fund and Giving Circle — is providing eye examinations and, if needed, eye glasses for women who otherwise cannot afford them. The Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas, 3011 N. Michigan in...