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Sep

Howard Purcell, O.D., New England College of Optometry, to Receive 2025 Person of Vision Award

Annual Prevent Blindness Person of Vision Award Gala at Vision Expo East in Orlando, Fla., to Honor Howard Purcell, O.D., President and CEO of the...

Sep

NASEM Publishes New Report on Myopia

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has published a new report, Myopia: Causes, Prevention and Treatment of an Increasingly Common Disease Prevent...

Sep

2024 Inflammatory Eye Disease Awareness Week

Prevent Blindness Offers Free Resources to Help Educate the Public and Allied Healthcare Professionals on the Many Types of Inflammatory Eye Diseases, and Steps that...

Sep

New Mapping Tool Provides Data for Children’s Vision and Eye Health

New Prevent Blindness Children’s Vision Health Map and Corresponding Report Provides Public, Professionals and Policy Makers with First-ever County and State-level Data on Children’s Vision...

Sep

2024 World Sight Day Activities Focus on Children’s Vision

Prevent Blindness Kicks Off World Sight Day Activities with a Congressional Briefing on Capitol Hill, New Partnerships with Leading Organizations, and a Series of Vision...

Aug

Prevent Blindness Raises Awareness on the Need for Eye Protection While Playing Sports

New Data from Prevent Blindness Shows More Than 32,600 Sports Eye Injuries Were Treated in 2023, with Pool and Water Sports as the Type of...

Jul

Prevent Blindness Declares August as Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month to Educate Parents, Professionals, and Government Leaders on the Importance of Healthy Vision for Kids

Prevent Blindness has once again declared August as Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month. The goal is to educate parents, caregivers, professionals and policy makers on...

Jun

Prevent Blindness Joins in July’s Dry Eye Awareness Month, Providing Educational Resources on Eye Disease that Affects Millions

Prevent Blindness Offers Free Dry Eye Resources including Fact Sheets, Social Media Graphics, Webpage, Expert Interviews and New Materials on How to Take Eye Drops...

Jun

Fourth Annual Prevent Blindness Fireworks Safety Awareness Week declared as June 28-July 4, 2024, to Help Educate Consumers on the Dangers of Fireworks

Prevent Blindness Urges Public to Celebrate Independence Day Safely by Avoiding Fireworks, Attending Authorized Displays by Professionals Prevent Blindness has declared June 28-July 4, 2024,...

Jun

Prevent Blindness to Hold 16th Annual Swing Fore Sight Golf Outing at Vision Expo West, Las Vegas

Prevent Blindness has announced that the 16th Annual Prevent Blindness Swing Fore Sight golf outing will take place on Wed., Sept. 18, 2024, at the Bali...

May

Prevent Blindness Declares June as Cataract Awareness Month to Educate Public on Eye Disease that is the Leading Cause of Vision Loss in the United States

Prevent Blindness provides free cataract resources to patients and professionals including fact sheets, social media graphics, a dedicated web page and expert video Prevent Blindness...

May

Call for Nominations Issued for the 2024 Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award from the National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness

10th Annual Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award recognizes significant efforts by an individual or group of individuals to improve public health approaches for...