For every condition, there is a vitamin or a nutraceutical – or so it would seem on a visit to your local health food store! Since most of the capsules, pills and tinctures promise to improve health in some specific way, should you be taking one (or more) supplements each day to maintain and improve
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Does having a black eye give reason to book an eye exam with your Toronto eye clinic? Maybe. Will it the injury request vision-correcting laser eye surgery? Depends. Perhaps you’ve been lucky enough to never have had a shiner – a swollen bruise that occurs when fluids collect around the eye after an injury such
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If you often get floaters, perhaps you’ve heard the advice to ‘just live with it, everybody gets them’. To some degree, that’s true: we’ve all seen eye floaters at one point or another – spots, lines, threads, or dots of various shapes and sizes floating in the eye – if only during eye exams, when
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As Toronto optometrists, we feel it’s our duty to report on cannabis’ effectively as a glaucoma treatment. With medical marijuana already legal in Canada and with recreational legalization imminently on the horizon, some Canadians are questioning whether cannabis, with its long association as a treatment for various medical conditions, can help their glaucoma, too. It’s
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