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10 Health Resolutions To Make (and Keep) in 2025
December 17, 2024
Tufts Medicine experts share the health and wellness resolutions you should make to live your healthiest year yet.
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Toys + Eye Safety: 5 Tips for Caregivers
December 10, 2024
Tufts Medical Center ophthalmologist, Sylvia Yoo, MD, Director of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, shares tips for protecting your kids’ vision during play.
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Focus On: Diabetes + Your Eyes
November 7, 2024
Tufts Medical Center’s Marisa Tieger, MD, board-certified ophthalmologist and vitreoretinal specialist and surgeon, shares what you need to know about how diabetes affects the eyes
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Okyo Pharma Initiates Phase 2 Trial of OK-101 for Neuropathic Corneal Pain
October 22, 2024
Pedram Hamrah, MD, Vice Chair of Research and Academic Programs for the Department of Ophthalmology, Co-Director of the Cornea Service and Director of the Center for Translational Ocular Immunology at Tufts Medical Center, in an article about the launch of a phase 2 clinical trial at Tufts MC to test a new therapy for the treatment of neuropathic corneal pain.
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Halloween Eye Safety: Protecting Your Eyes During the Spooky Season
October 14, 2024
Tufts Medical Center’s ChiHae Kwan, OD, Director of Optometry Services, tips to keep your eyes safe and healthy on Halloween.
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Protect Your Vision: Diabetic Retinopathy
August 14, 2024
Tufts Medical Center’s Andre J. Witkin, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, board-certified ophthalmologist and vitreoretinal specialist and surgeon, shares how to reduce your risk of developing diabetic retinopathy (DR).
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Spotlight on Myopia: Understanding Nearsightedness in Kids + Teens
August 12, 2024
Tufts Medical Center Ophthalmology & New England Eye Center’s Dr. Sylvia Yoo answers your questions about myopia in children and teenagers
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8 Tips To Keep Your Eyes Healthy This Summer
July 1, 2024
Dr. Reza Vagefi, of the New England Eye Center at Tufts Medicine, shares summer eye safety tips.
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Reza Vagefi, MD Named Chair of Ophthalmology at Tufts Medical Center
April 5, 2023
Congratulations and welcome to Reza Vagefi, MD, who joined the Tufts Medicine family as Chair of Ophthalmology at Tufts Medical Center and Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology for Tufts University School of Medicine in April of 2023.
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How To Protect Your Eyes During the Solar Eclipse
April 5, 2024
A much-anticipated total solar eclipse will have millions in North America gazing skyward on April 8. Dr. Reza Vagefi, Chair of Ophthalmology and Director of the New England Eye Center at Tufts Medicine, is here to remind us how to stay safe as we enjoy this rare event.