CME Insider's Blog Posts

As summer winds down, back-to-school preparations are well underway for parents and children. To prepare children for a successful school year, parents should be encouraged to make their children's eye health a priority through vision screening tests.

According to the American Academy of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, vision assessment should begin as young as 12 months. Good vision dramatically improves a child’s ability to learn and their overall well-being. However, children are often unaware of vision issues, especially if they are unable to communicate.

As we grow older, so do our eyes. Our eyes work with our brains to interpret colors and images, choosing what to focus on and what to ignore. Understanding how the brain and eye work together is very complex, but simply put, our eyes visualize the world around us.

For people living with some form of diabetic retinopathy, the world around them may be hard to visualize. Diabetic retinopathy is the most common form of diabetic eye disease and the leading cause of blindness in adults age 20-74 with 12,000-24,000 new cases in the United States each year.