Eye Health

Macular degeneration affects over eight million people in the United States. Patients lose central vision, the ability to read fine print and recognize faces. A diagnosis doesn't mean surrendering to these challenges. Instead, understanding this medical condition will help pave the way toward a better future-for yourself or loved one.

Sight Unseen reveals the cultural and biological realities of race, gender, and sexual orientation from the perspective of the blind. Through 10 case studies and dozens of interviews, Ellyn Kaschak taps directly into the phenomenology of race, gender, and sexual orientation among individuals born blind, along with the everyday epistemology of vision. Kaschak's work reveals not only how the blind create systems of meaning out of cultural norms but also how cultural norms inform our conscious and unconscious interactions with others regardless of our physical ability to see. She exposes gender, race, and sexual orientation as unconscious and pre-verbal in the sighted, an aspect of implicit bias.

Look out for Julie's new book, The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters. From bestselling author Julie Klam comes a lively and engaging exploration of celebrity: why celebrities fascinate us, what it means to be famous today, and why celebrities are so important. “When I was young I was convinced...

Dr. Christopher Maloney woke up one day and couldn't read labels without taking off his glasses. He asked his eye doctor what it was and got a shrug. It was just part of getting older. Unwilling to accept eventual blindness, Dr. Maloney researched. He started off convinced eyesight was genetic and ended up convinced it isn't genetic at all. Along the way, Dr. Maloney found a secret pandemic that doesn't make the nightly news. We're not going blind as we age; we're going blind as a planet.

This taut yet lyrical memoir tells of the author’s experience with a baffling illness poised to take her sight, and gives a deeply felt meditation on vulnerability and on what it means to lose the faith you had and find something better. One day at the end of 2009, during a routine eye exam that Nora Gallagher nearly skipped, her doctor said, “Darn.” Her right optic nerve was inflamed, the cause unknown, a condition that if left untreated would cause her to lose her sight.

Steve Hobson went blind about eight years ago. In adapting to his new life he searched for a retreat, somewhere quiet and peaceful that would allow him to relax. He attended a Sesshin at the Stonewater Zen Sangha. Stonewater Zen Sangha is a Zen Buddhist group based in Liverpool. Steve's book explains his life as a blind person, and what happens during a Zen Buddhist retreat. It is a warm, well-written, account that will inspire the listener.

Take a journey through the soul. Discover yourself and why you’re here in this place. Create your next life or your next illusion. Free your mind, think outside of this dimension or this place. Know that life is much greater than this world and this mind. Become peace, become love, or whatever you choose to be, but be free and be happy in all your ways. For it is I that you see, in the light and in the darkness. A changed mind is a changed world....

This book is a story book about the eye. After some 60 years in eye research and clinical work in ophthalmology there have been many instances, where I remember patients and their problems, a book I read or a place that I traveled. This book has 30 chapters and the only thing they have in common, other than all having the same writer is that all have something to do with the eye or eye associated structures such as the eye muscles. None of the chapters are meant to be clinical reports; all are stories and I have tried to keep the text understandable.

Relinquish all your preconceived notions here. You may think such saucy subject matter is redundant and has been told and talked about a thousand times before, but this book is different. This book is bigger than life and bolder than sex; it's about activating the soul and living our best lives free and integrated with our most sovereign selves. This book is a cheerleader for magical moderation, which may sound boring to some, but the way it delivers will revolutionize your very existence.

Retinitis Pigmentosa 101: How to live, grow, and become your best self with retinitis pigmentosa from A to Z. Are you someone who has been diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa or a parent who has recently learned that your child is losing their vision? Then this book might just be for you.

Are you lacking self-discipline? Are you falling short of completing what you need to do at work, school, or home? Did you promise your boss a new safety manual last Friday, and still don't have it done? If so, this is the book for you. Eyes on the Prize: The 10 Step Program to Self-Discipline in 30 Days guides you through the process of setting goals and then achieving those goals while increasing your self-discipline.

Young Sue Gurwell had always known that her father had been a paratrooper. And then there was the special poem in his roll-top desk she sometimes snuck a peek at, written by a member of Dad's regiment. This poem was a premonition of the sergeant's death. "Yes," her dad told her, "He was right—he died on D-Day." But it's not until 2016, after her parents had both passed away, that Susan Gurwell Talley and her husband Jack L. Talley begin to understand the true extent and significance of the wartime artifacts that had been staples of Sue's childhood.

In Open Your Eyes: A Prescription for Change in American Health Care, Dr. Eduardo Balbona shares his expert advice on how U.S. health care can be improved from its current state, in which both patients and doctors are unable to thrive. Gleaned from his more than 30 years of practicing medicine, Balbona’s text illustrates how our ideas on medical care have developed, and ultimately at what cost.

Whether you're a beginner eager to explore or a seasoned practitioner seeking to deepen your understanding, these four separate yet complementary books will guide you toward profound personal growth and healing.

Татьяна Власова – офтальмолог со стажем более 30 лет, из которых 16 лет проработала в МНТК «Микрохирургия глаза» бок о бок с профессором Святославом Федоровым и присутствовала при разборах самых сложных случаев на всех консилиумах. Глаза – зеркало души, и в этой книге автор расскажет, как заботиться об их здоровье, а также предупредить и вылечить наиболее распространенные заболевания. Вы познакомитесь с историями из практики врача-офтальмолога и получите ответы на самые частые вопросы.

The book discusses issues of blind low vision and their families. It is difficult for families of blind low vision to know how they can assist or help their family member. The book provides practical advice and solutions for both the family member and blind low vision person in how to manage with the aim of providing advocacy skills for parents and empowerment for the blind low vision person.

The audio book provides a framework for managing ongoing and sudden changes it relates to vision loss and blindness. The book provides a focus on living well, how to manage change of circumstances as well as to provide solutions around employment, accommodation, managing in the medical environment. The book outlines the necessary tools to manage independently or with family.

Einfache und effektive Übungen für Sehkraft, Entspannung und Wohlbefinden. Liegestützen, Jogging, Gewichttraining: Viele Menschen wissen um die enorme Bedeutung, die Muskulatur regelmäßig zu trainieren – aber haben Sie dabei schon einmal an Ihre Augen gedacht? Nach Stunden vor dem Bildschirm freut sich nämlich auch die Augenmuskulatur über eine kleine Trainingseinheit und wie Sie das ganz einfach zur Routine werden lassen, zeigt Ihnen dieses Buch.

Chakra meditation is used to awaken your third eye chakra, which allows for spiritual awakening, spiritual healing, and spiritual growth. The third eye chakra is located in the center of the forehead and is associated with the color indigo or violet. The seat of intuition, inner wisdom, personal growth, and spiritual awakening, the third eye chakra is also associated with knowledge, power, psychic seeing or clairvoyance, vision, and imagination. The third eye manages our mental faculties and relates to the brain, eyes, nose, and sinuses on a physical level.

Most cataract surgery patients are optimistic and for good reason. I have personally performed thousands of cataract surgeries in my career, including members of my own family, and the majority of those operations were qualitatively successful. And because of the success rate of such surgeries, many prospective patients expect perfect vision restored with little or no recovery time. But, as with any surgery, there are potential complications.