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    Month: March 2014

    Blindness and Visual Impairment Rates Have Fallen

    Posted on March 29, 2014 by droberts
  • March 29, 2014

    Blindness and Visual Impairment Rates Have Fallen

    234 out of 15,000 studies between 1980 and 2012 have shown that rates of blindness and visual impairment have decreased significantly in developed countries during the past two decades. Macular degeneration now appears to be the leading cause of chronic vision loss, surpassing cataracts and glaucoma. The most common cause of partial vision impairment continues […]

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  • Medicare Coverage of Low Vision Devices Pending Legislation

    Posted on March 6, 2014 by droberts
  • March 6, 2014

    Medicare Coverage of Low Vision Devices Pending Legislation

    by Mark Richert, Esq. Director, Public Policy The American Foundation for the Blind For decades, the vision loss community has been advocating for Medicare’s coverage of assistive technologies, particularly low vision devices. Currently, Medicare will not pay for any device that happens to use a lens, regardless of whether such device incorporates any other features. […]

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  • Effects of AREDS Supplements Up In Smoke

    Posted on March 3, 2014 by droberts
  • March 3, 2014

    Effects of AREDS Supplements Up In Smoke

    Canadian researchers recently conducted a telephone survey to evaluate patients’ understanding of the importance and adherence to various lifestyle and Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) supplement recommendations. Tobacco smoking was one of the lifestyle choices looked at. Of the 92 patients contacted, 98% knew about the AREDS formula, with 74% agreeing that high doses of […]

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  • What Is Low Vision?

    Posted on March 1, 2014January 12, 2019 by droberts
  • March 1, 2014

    What Is Low Vision?

    By Dan Roberts An estimated fourteen million Americans have low vision, also called visual impairment. It is generally any interference with sight that hinders the performance of daily activities. More specifically, low vision describes varying degrees of sight loss caused by disease, trauma, or a congenital disorder. Low vision may appear as one or more of […]

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