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MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: About Dry eyes
Dry eyes are caused by a lack of tears. Tears are necessary for the normal lubrication of your eyes and to wash away particles and foreign bodies.
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Prevent Blindness America
Founded in 1908, Prevent Blindness America is the nation's leading volunteer eye health and safety organization dedicated to fighting blindness and saving sight. Focused on promoting a continuum of vision care, Prevent Blindness America gives a comprehensive information on dry eye syndrome, its symptoms and treatments available.
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The National Guideline Clearinghouse
The The National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) mission is to provide physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, health care providers and others an accessible mechanism for obtaining objective, detailed information on clinical practice guidelines and to further their dissemination, implementation and use. Here it gives an authentic guidance and recommendations on the diagnosis and management of "Dry Eye Syndrome" and counseling/referral for patients with dry eyes.
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The Dry Eye Zone
The Dry Eye Zone is owned by The Dry Eye Company LLC, a small privately held company set up by dry eye patients. The mission of The Dry Eye Company is to help dry eye patients access the best possible information, medical care, treatments and products.
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Disability Online
The aim of this site is to provide people with a disability, their families and carers with access to online disability related information across governments and the non-government sector. This site gives an authentic and upto-date information on "Dry Eyes" which is a common cause of disability.
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Johns Hopkins Medicine
The Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins has long been recognized for bringing together ophthalmologists consistently ranked by their peers as among the finest internationally, with a specially trained and highly experienced team of nurses cited by patients for their knowledge, responsiveness, and sensitivity. It gives authoritative information on dry eye syndrome.
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Royal National Institute of the Blind
UK's leading charity offering information, support and advice to over two million people with sight problems. Designed to help understand more about dry eye condition, this guide has been written by experienced eye health team.
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Patient UK
Patient UK started as a directory of UK websites which provided information of health, disease and related issues. The aim of this website is to provide non-medical people in the UK with good quality information about health and disease. Here it provides a validated information on Dry Eyes, its causes, symptoms and treatment.
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NHS Direct Online Health Encyclopaedia
NHS Direct Online is an authoritative resource website by national health service of UK. Dry eye syndrome is also known as keratoconjunctivitis sicca. It is when your eyes don't make enough tears to keep them moist. As a result, your eyes get dry and feel uncomfortable. Both eyes are usually affected.
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PRODIGY guidance
PRODIGY is a source of clinical knowledge, based on the best available evidence, about the common conditions and symptoms managed by primary healthcare professionals. It gives guidance on the management of "Dry Eyes" and the target audience for this guidance is healthcare professionals and providing first contact or primary health care.
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