2025 Prevent Blindness Person of Vision Award Gala to be Held During Vision Expo East

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Prevent Blindness Expresses Concern Over Medicaid Community Engagement and Eligibility Requirements for Visually Impaired
Prevent Blindness Introduces New Resources and Advances National and State Advocacy Efforts to Save Children’s Vision as Part of August’s Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month
Prevent Blindness Honors Bipartisan Leadership of Congressional Vision Caucus Co-Chairs, U.S. Representatives Gus Bilirakis and Marc Veasey, with Congressional Visionary Award
July Declared as Dry Eye Month by Prevent Blindness to Provide Public and Allied Healthcare Professionals with No-cost Educational Resources on Dry Eye
National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness Calls for Nominations for the 2026 Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award
Prevent Blindness Issues Warning on the Potential Dangers of Fireworks Ahead of 250th Anniversary Celebration
June is Cataract Month – Prevent Blindness Provides Educational Resources on the Leading Cause of Vision Loss in the United States
Prevent Blindness to Host the 2026 ASPECT Patient Engagement Summit and Eyes on Capitol Hill Legislative Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C.
Prevent Blindness Declares May as Third Annual Inherited Retinal Disease and Genetic Testing Month
Prevent Blindness Kicks Off its 2026 Focus on Eye Health Webinar Series “Powering Partnerships to Advance Eye Health” in May
April is Women’s Eye Health and Safety Month at Prevent Blindness, Aimed at Providing Women with Resources Needed to Help Save Vision
Prevent Blindness Declares First-Ever Keratoconus Week
Prevent Blindness Holds 2026 Person of Vision Award Gala, Honoring Jim McGrann, Advancing Eyecare, as Part of Vision Expo
Prevent Blindness Debuts “Best Eyes for Life” National Multimedia Campaign as Survey Reveals Concerning Misconceptions on Eye Health
Prevent Blindness Offers Free Educational Resources to Employers and Employees for Workplace Eye Wellness Month
Third Annual Prevent Blindness Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) Awareness Week Kicks off as Part of its National ROP Education and Support Initiative
February is Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and Low Vision Month
Congress Cuts Vision and Eye Health Funding by One-Third in Fiscal Year 2026
Tickets and Sponsorships Available for the 2026 Prevent Blindness Person of Vision Award Gala
The “It Started With an Eye Exam” Campaign Rolls Out its Second Year

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2025 Prevent Blindness Person of Vision Award Gala to be Held During Vision Expo East

Annual Prevent Blindness Person of Vision Award Gala, Held to Support its Sight-Saving Programs, to Honor Howard Purcell, O.D., New England College of Optometry, at...

Dec

Free Resources in Support of National Glaucoma Awareness Month

Prevent Blindness offers expert and patient videos, fact sheets, social media graphics, and webpages to raise awareness of glaucoma and to help educate the public...

Nov

Fourth Annual Geographic Atrophy Awareness Week

Prevent Blindness provides free educational resources on geographic atrophy, a form of age-related macular degeneration, including fact sheets, a dedicated webpage, expert videos, and more...

Nov

Prevent Blindness Names Six New Members to National Board of Directors

Prevent Blindness has named six new members to its Board of Directors. The vote was held on Nov. 18, at the 2024 Prevent Blindness Annual...

Nov

Fifth Annual Thyroid Eye Disease (TED) Awareness Week

Prevent Blindness provides free educational materials on Thyroid Eye Disease, including a new patient-featured episode of the Focus on Eye Health Expert series, fact sheets,...

Oct

Prevent Blindness Provides Free Educational Resources for Diabetes-related Eye Disease Awareness Month

Prevent Blindness provides the public and professionals with free webpages, fact sheets, educational videos, toolkits, and social media graphics, to help prevent vision loss and...

Oct

Common Misperceptions Among Caregivers of Aging Adults Emphasizes Lack of Awareness of Retinal Diseases

Survey findings show fewer than 30% of caregivers of persons at risk for retinal diseases have heard about some of the most common types of...

Oct

New Study Finds Higher Prevalence of Glaucoma Than Previously Estimated

New research study estimates glaucoma and vision-affecting glaucoma prevalence by demographic factors, and by U.S. state and county A new study “Prevalence of Glaucoma Among...

Sep

Prevent Blindness Urges Public to Keep Eyes Healthy While Using Contacts

National Nonprofit Prevent Blindness Provides Free Resources, Including Fact Sheets, Social Media Graphics, and Webpages, on Ways to Use Contact Lenses Correctly and Safely Prevent...

Sep

Alcon Children’s Vision Center Named Recipient of 10th Annual Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award

The National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness (NCCVEH) has announced the recipient of the tenth annual “Bonnie Strickland Champion for...

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...