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March is Workplace Eye Wellness Month

It's important to protect your eyes both on the job and during your daily activities. Take a few simple steps throughout your workday to make a difference for your eye health. If your work involves activities like construction or sports, make sure to wear protective eyewear. If you work outdoors, wear sunglasses to block harmful UV rays, even on cloudy days, and choose lenses that block 99-100% of UVA and UVB radiation. And if you're spending long hours in front of a computer, give your eyes a rest every 20 minutes by looking at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds.

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NEI Research News

NIH researchers develop eye drops that slow vision loss in animals

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed eye drops that extend vision in animal models of a group of inherited diseases that lead to progressive vision loss in humans, known as retinitis pigmentosa.
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Glaucoma monitoring lags in low-income and rural areas

Northwestern study finds ‘alarming’ disparities — lack of glaucoma care can lead to blindness.
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Researchers ‘seq’ and find a way to make pig retinal cells to advance eye treatments

Researchers have developed lab-grown pig retinal organoids to test stem cell replacement therapies for diseases that damage the eye's light-sensing photoreceptors.

Funding for Vision Research

NEI funds more than 1,500 research and training grants to vision scientists across the country and around the world.

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