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	<title>Eyes Apart:  Living with strabismus</title>
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	<description>...also known as crossed eyes, lazy eye, wall eyes, squint, tropia, double vision, turned, floating, wandering, wayward, or drifting eyes.</description>
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		<title>Lazy eye muscles? Revisit a challenge from JFK.  Take the dare!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is said that John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, seemed to have lazy eye muscles, which would sometimes cause one to deviate. Kennedy&#8217;s picture at the right certainly bears that out. Yet, he was able to achieve the highest office in the USA. President Kennedy showed us that our value [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Implanted telescope &#8211; bionic breakthrough for macular degeneration (AMD)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prevent Blindness America published a report in 2008 indicating that age-related macular degeneration (AMD) had &#8220;the largest increase of the major eye diseases. Currently [in 2008], 2 million Americans have been diagnosed with AMD.&#8221; WebMD announced yesterday that the FDA has approved the use of an Implantable Miniature Telescope (IMT) designed to replace the natural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I discovered reading again!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 03:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back after an extended time away due to health problems. After finally getting needed treatment, I&#8217;m thankful to be feeling better! I&#8217;ll write about that another time, but now I want to share something that helped get me through the long waits in doctor&#8217;s offices and the days at home when I was not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strabismus got you down?  This will lift you up!</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/12/01/hand-in-hand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 05:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brett shared the url to this video in our Eyes Apart Strabismus Support group recently. Brett writes, &#8220;If strabismus seems like a barrier to living our dreams and gaining acceptance, just imagine the hurdles these two beautiful dancers have managed to overcome.&#8221; The ballet &#8220;Hand in Hand&#8221; is performed by Ma Li and Zhai Xiaowei, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New fun video game offers vision training in minutes a day!</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/11/23/flash-focus-sight-training/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day is a new video game for Nintendo DS. It&#8217;s designed to improve hand-eye coordination, focus, and peripheral vision through a series of fun games. Flash Focuswas developed in Japan and is distributed there as well as in Europe, the UK, and Australia as &#8220;Sight Training: Enjoy Exercising [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would you trade part of your life expectancy to be rid of strabismus?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Marshall writes: Dr. David Guyton at the Wilmer Eye Institue of Johns Hopkins sent this to me along with some other articles, but this one is a very powerful reminder of how crippling strabismus can be to those of us who suffer from it. It is a study conducted by George R Beauchamp, MD, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intimidated by the creeping shadow of strabismus?  Here&#8217;s help!</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/10/25/shadow-of-strabismus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following item is edited and used by permission from a letter posted by David Marshall recently in our Eyes Apart Strabismus Support group. David wrote: I often wonder if my strabismus is much like a shadow on the wall. There are days when it looms so large over me all I want to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social confidence with lazy eyes</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/10/20/social-confidence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/10/20/social-confidence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following item is edited from a letter posted by shayla last month in our Eyes Apart Strabismus Support group. It&#8217;s hard for some people to accept being referred to as having &#8220;lazy eyes.&#8221; We know that strabismus eyes work much harder than normal eyes. Shayla used this term about herself with confidence, and she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lazy eye amblyopia research study</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/10/13/lazy-eye-amblyopia-research-study/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 06:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children's vision]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the European research news resource, AlphaGalileo.Org, &#8220;Researchers at the University of Bradford are seeking volunteers for a study into the condition ‘amblyopia’ which is more commonly known as ‘lazy eye’.&#8221; According to this report, the study will be done using a &#8220;new state-of-the-art Optical Coherence Tomographer&#8230;used to examine the structure of the eye [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging again and better than ever!</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/10/08/blogging-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our site has been down over a week after an upgrade of the blogging software. Part was due to incompatibilities with some of our older plugins and our theme template as well. So we&#8217;ve had a face lift! I hope you&#8217;ll find our site easier to use and more helpful than ever. I&#8217;m still tweaking [...]]]></description>
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