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Eye2Eye Program Provides Support for People with Vision Loss

For millions of blind and visually impaired people the pandemic raises new issues around safety, transportation, and access to mental health support.

Luckily, for New Jersey residents living with varying degrees of vision loss, help is but a phone call away.

Rutgers University’s Eye2Eye Program, the nation’s first phone-based peer-to-peer operation dedicated to empowering people with low to no vision, provides specialized emotional support to the hundreds of thousands visually impaired in the tri-state area. read more

New Study Warns Smoking Causes Blindness Earlier Than Commonly Thought

Smoking cigarettes has long been known for its ability to damage eyesight, on top of the harm it causes to the lungs, heart, and other organs, and now a new study suggests that smoking can impair vision far earlier than is commonly thought.

Heavy smokers with an average age of 35 were markedly worse than nonsmokers at distinguishing colors as well as the contrast between different shades of gray, reported the study authors, including one from Rutgers University. Previous research has linked smoking with macular degeneration and cataracts, which tend to occur decades later. read more

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