Prevent Blindness

The nonprofit eye health and safety organization Prevent Blindness has received its largest ever monetary donation from the Estate of Pamela Behrens, according to a press release.

January is National Glaucoma Awareness Month, according to Prevent Blindness, and the organization is providing free resources to educate the public on the importance of early detection and care.

For the fourth consecutive year, Prevent Blindness has declared Dec. 2 to 8 as Geographic Atrophy Awareness Week and is offering free educational resources for both patients and eye care providers.

Prevent Blindness has declared Sept. 16 to 22 as Inflammatory Eye Disease Awareness Week and is offering free educational resources and expert videos for the public and eye care providers.

Prevent Blindness announced the debut of its new Children’s Vision Health Map, an online interactive tool that uses national data to display geographic variations among common vision problems.

The Early Detection of Vision Impairments for Children Act, if passed, would be the first federal-level program to support state and community approaches for children’s vision and eye health, a major step forward for the eye care community.

In this Healio video, Jeff Todd, president and CEO at Prevent Blindness, discusses the organization’s art therapy program, which was created to help patients with thyroid eye disease cope with feelings of isolation, anxiety and depression.

U.S. Reps Marc Veasey and Gus Bilirakis on May 14 introduced the Early Detection of Vision Impairments in Children Act, which will establish grants for screenings, early interventions and coordinated care to improve children’s eye health.

Age-related macular degeneration can occur even in patients without a family history, so clinicians must be aware of early warning signs of the disease, according to Deborah Ferrington, PhD.

SAN FRANCISCO — In this Healio Video Perspective from the AAO meeting, Jeff Todd, JD, president and CEO of Prevent Blindness, discusses the Gr8 Eye Movement, a campaign to bring awareness to diabetes-related eye disease.