It’s easy to assume that being colorblind means living in black-and-white movie time, but that is not how it works at the majority of cases. How Genetics Affects Your Color Vision? A recessive gene located on the X chromosome is the principal culprit behind most...
Virtually everyone over the age of 65 may experience a reduced elasticity of the lenses of the eyes — a condition known as presbyopia. Those people lucky enough to have perfect eyesight until that era will only require reading glasses to help with up-close...
Do you recall in old animations if your character would see a plate of food and his eyes would bulge out like footballs? That pointed cone shape of the eye in such scenes isn’t much different from the consequences of keratoconus, a vision disorder where the...
Nowadays, eye injuries in the workplace are a common affair. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) reports that each day about 2,000 U.S. employees maintain job-related eye injuries that need medical therapy. However, safety experts and eye...
Although we all know that there are differences between men and women! It might surprise you that some of those differences include our eyes as well. Generally speaking, women are less inclined than men to get an eye injury during their lifetime, however, the...