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Making the New Year Easy on Your Eyes

Each year, most people put a couple health-related items on our list of New Year’s resolutions. Eat less. Exercise more. Go and get that long overdo physical. What some people fail to realize is that eye care is another important part of caring for your body. Many people don’t seek care for their eyes until something is wrong, which can lead to loss of sight, eye disease and other serious problems. Doctors rocommend these five resolutions for 2010:

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Scientists Develope Eye Implant Allowing Blind Patients to See Within Days

Scientists have developed an eye implant that allowed three blind patients to see shapes and objects within days of treatment in a trial and say the device could become routine for some kinds of blindness in five years. Experts described the study results as phenomenal and said the device, developed by German researchers, could eventually change the lives of up to 200,000 people worldwide who suffer from blindness due to a degenerative eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa.

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