Eye exams are now required for children ages 3 to 6 when first starting public school or preschool

Add eye exams to your back-to-school checklist, because state law now requires children aged 3 through 6 who are entering a public school or preschool program for the first time to have a vision exam.

eye safety during fall sports season

eye safety during fall sports season

Children are back in prepare, on stage sports, and parents can take precautions to ensure their children's eye safety as they compete.

Although many parents are ignorant of the risks posed to their child's eye safety, almost 40,000 eye injuries take place in the United States all through sports or recreational activities both time, says Prevent Blindness America. Some sport-related eye injuries go in front to eyesight loss, with almost one-third of them occurring in children linking the ages of 5 and 14, says the Kentucky Optometric Association.

Clinics in 9 Appalachian counties will offer high-tech eye screenings to head off common ailment that blinds diabetics

Kentucky has single of the nation's highest toll of diabetes, but partly the diabetics in rural Kentucky don't cover twelve-monthly eye exams – even though near 30 percent of diabetics completed 40 cover diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of loss of sight amongst diabetic adults.