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Q&A: A zoological specialist on what veterinarians commonly see with exotic species

Emi Knafo, DVM, DACZM is a zoological medicine specialist and assistant clinical professor of zoological medicine at the University of Tennessee (UT) in Knoxville. She grew up ...
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Recalling the most memorable cases in exotic animal medicine

Katherine Quesenberry, DVM, MPH, DABVP (Avian), chief medical officer, senior veterinarian, specialist in avian medicine and ...

How Rare Are Green Eyes, And What Genetics Says About Their Origins

If the internet is this obsessed with eye color, how rare are green eyes in humans? Green sits in the middle zone of pigment ...
Financial Advisor

Hedge Funds Eye Exotic Options To Play Huge Cross-Asset Swings

The wild swings led by oil since the start of the Iran war have institutional investors turning to exotic hybrid options to trade cross-market gyrations. Oil prices swung almost $36 a barrel on March ...
Business Insider

Eye Color Enters the Style Conversation as Lens.me Positions Colored Contacts as a Modern Styling Tool

Lens.me places colored contact lenses within everyday style decisions, presenting eye color as a flexible element influencing makeup, clothing, and mood. The company highlights colored contacts as a ...
Daily Mail

Mother-of-four, 36, left blind in one eye after leaving her contact lenses in for TWO WEEKS: 'Felt like I was stabbed'

Working as nurse, Katie Carrington was used to helping people who had put their health at risk with careless mistakes - but it didn't make her immune to making similar missteps. The mum-of-four, 36, ...
Newsweek

Woman, 21, Wears Contact Lenses, Ends Up Blind Due to Rare Parasite on Eye

A 21-year-old woman has lost vision in her right eye after bacteria in her contacts caused her to contract a parasite that is "eating" away at her eye. For the past four years, Vivian Nosovitsky has ...
CNN

A blinding parasitic eye disease affects mostly contact lens wearers. Here’s how to avoid it

Teresa Sanchez was in Mexico for a medical procedure nearly four years ago when she kept feeling dry, poking sensations in her right eye. She chalked it up to a potential rip in her contact lens, the ...
Gizmodo

Woman Visits the Galápagos and All She Got Was This Exotic Eye Parasite

Talk about the souvenir from hell. A recent case report documents how a woman’s overseas trip to South America left her playing host to a worm parasite stuck in her eye. Researchers in Chile and ...
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Sleeping in contacts can permanently damage your eyes—doctors say this is why

Sleeping in contact lenses may seem harmless, but eye doctors warn it can significantly increase the risk of serious infections and long-term eye damage. When the eyes are closed during sleep, oxygen ...
Health.com

How To Manage Dry Eyes With Contact Lenses

Wearing contact lenses can lead to dry eyes. Dry eye is a condition where your eyes cannot make enough tears to lubricate and nourish the eye. Symptoms may include burning, stinging, blurry vision, ...