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During May’s Healthy Vision Month, BrightFocus Foundation is encouraging regular, comprehensive eye exams to protect against vision loss. While some eye diseases have no warning signs until damage has been done, others may be minimized if detected and treated early.

BrightFocus Foundation today joins others in the field of vision research in paying tribute to a giant in the profession—renowned glaucoma expert David L. Epstein, M.D., M.M.M., of the Duke Eye Center at Duke University, who passed away this week.

An estimated half of the three million Americans living with glaucoma may be unaware they have this sight-stealing disease. Once vision is lost to glaucoma, it can never be regained. Vision loss can be prevented, however, if glaucoma is detected and treated early.

The newly released Vision Problems in the U.S. report provides updated, state-by-state calculations on the prevalence of vision diseases.

As World Glaucoma Day is observed the American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF) will award over one million dollars in grants to scientists worldwide who are on the front lines of glaucoma research.

The American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF), in recognition of Glaucoma Awareness Month in January, will present a glaucoma lecture and discussion program on Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. at the Asbury Methodist Village, Rosborough Community Rooms, 409 Russell Avenue, Gaithersburg, MD 20877. The event is free and open to the public with complimentary parking available.

Glaucoma is called “the sneak thief of sight,” because it often has no symptoms until there is irreversible vision loss making it the leading cause of blindness worldwide affecting approximately 65 million people according to the World Health Organization.