February 12, 2024 marks the 100th Anniversary of the debut of George Gershwin's renowned musical composition, Rhapsody in Blue, which was played on the site where SUNY College of Optometry's campus now sits. Formerly the Aeolian Building, home to Aeolian Company who manufactured pianos, organs, phonographs, sheet music and more,…
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New York, NY — January 27, 2021 According to the National Organization for Rare Disorders, thyroid eye disease (TED) affects an estimated 1 in every 6,250 women and 1 in 34,482 men. Left undiagnosed and untreated, it is a condition that can contribute to vision loss. What is the cause of…
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What is color blindness? People who have extreme color deficiency vision, more commonly known as color blindness, are unable to tell the difference among colors. There are three variations of the condition, each based on photopigment defects in the three eye cones that respond to blue, green and red light.…
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