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NetWellness provides the highest quality health information and education services created and evaluated by faculty of our partner universities.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
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NetWellness provides the highest quality health information and education services created and evaluated by faculty of our partner universities.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
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The holiday season is a time for family and friends, a time of happiness and joy. NetWellness wishes you and yours all the best at this festive time of year. To help, we are providing information we hope will help make your season a happy and healthy one. Best wishes from all of us at NetWellness for this season and the New Year.
The College of Optometry at The Ohio State University is the only optometry program in the state of Ohio. It is internationally recognized for research in the areas of ocular physiology, contact lenses, infant and children's vision, vision rehabilitation, keratoconus, visual psychophysics, and visual perception.
Dr. Robert D. Newcomb, Professor of Clinical Optometry, and his team of optometric experts have answered over 800 NetWellness questions in the past five years in the area of Eye and Vision Care.
The OSU College of Optometry, the oldest university-based optometry program in the nation, was the first public university to grant the Doctor of (OD) degree. Its mission statement reads:
To educate and train individuals to become optometrists having the highest skills and most current knowledge through its graduate professional curriculum; to pursue new knowledge in ophthalmic and vision sciences through its research programs; to provide service to the community through its clinical programs in optometric care; and to provide post-graduate residency and continuing education programs that enhance skills and promote life-long learning.
The newest topic added to the NetWellness long list of Ask an Expert areas is Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a major mental illness, a brain disease that can affect many different parts of a person's life. About 1% of the US population, or 1 person in 100, has schizophrenia.
P. Eric Konicki, MD, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Case Western Reserve University is available to answer your questions concerning this devastating mental illness.
NetWellness would like to welcome Dr. Cynthia Green, OD from the College of Optometry at The Ohio State University and Dr. Robert P. Friedland, MD from the Department of Neurology at Case Western Reserve University to the NetWellness team. Dr. Green will be answering questions in the Eye and Vision Care area of NetWellness. Dr. Friedland will be answering questions on Alzheimer's disease.
Check out four new articles on eye and vision care. Dr. Cynthia Green has written "More Than Meets the Eye", "Eye Disease: Are You At Risk?", and "Eye Health and Diabetes." Dr. Joseph T. Barr, O.D., M.S. from The Ohio State University College of Optometry has contributed an article on "Extended Wear Contact Lenses."
We are always trying to improve to meet your needs. What do we do well? What can we do to better fit your needs? Please send your comments through our "Feedback" feature and we'll get them into the right hands. Thanks again for using NetWellness!
NetWellness is a non-profit consumer health Web site that provides high quality information created and evaluated by health professions faculty at the University of Cincinnati, Case Western Reserve University, and The Ohio State University. Started in June 1995, NetWellness was one of the first health sites on the Internet.
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