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Prevent Blindness urges Congress to pass bipartisan legislation, the “Early Detection of Vision Impairments for Children Act,” designed to improve eye care access and health outcomes for children across the

Through letters recently submitted to Congressional leadership in both the House and the Senate, and copied to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Dorothy Camille Shea, US Ambassador to the

Prevent Blindness Declares May as Inherited Retinal Disease (IRD) and Genetic Testing Month with the goal to educate patients on various forms of IRDs, and the importance of genetic testing

Prevent Blindness strongly calls on the West Virginia State House to reject HB 3444. If enacted, this legislation would remove the mandate that all newborns in the state receive erythromycin

Prevent Blindness Promotes Five Staff Across Executive, Marketing and Communications, Government Affairs, and Public Health Departments Prevent Blindness has announced the promotion of five of its staff members to broaden

Nonprofit Group Prevent Blindness Offers a Variety of Free Educational Resources to Help Educate the Public and Raise Awareness of Women’s Vision and Eye Health Issues Prevent Blindness has declared

Prevent Blindness Holds Spring Board of Directors Meeting, Naming Matt MacDonald as Board Chair-elect, and Presents Board of Directors Emeritus Member Paul Howes, Translatum Medicus Inc., with the Louisa Lee

National nonprofit Prevent Blindness to hold 14th Annual Prevent Blindness Focus on Eye Health Summit, May 14, 2025, as a free interactive virtual event Prevent Blindness will host the 14th

Prevent Blindness Provides a Variety of Free Resources including Fact Sheets, Webpages, and Social Media Graphics on Workplace Eye Safety, and Digital Eye Strain Prevent Blindness has declared March as

Prevent Blindness presented the 2025 Prevent Blindness Person of Vision Award, to Howard Purcell, O.D., F.A.A.O., president and CEO, New England College of Optometry (NECO), as part of its annual

Prevent Blindness Provides Free Retinopathy of Prematurity Educational Resources to Parents and Professionals, Including Updated Fact Sheets, Web pages, and a New Video Series with Medical Expert and Parent Testimonials

Prevent Blindness Seeking Nominations for Two of the Nonprofit Organization’s Highest Honors Prevent Blindness is issuing the call for nominations for the “2025 Jenny Pomeroy Award for Excellence in Vision