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Facts About Glaucoma
Glaucoma: How Much Do You Know? Take this quiz and find out
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- Glaucoma: What you should know PDF*
- El Glaucoma: Lo que usted deber saber (In Spanish) PDF*
Información en español (Information in Spanish)
- El Glaucoma: Lo que usted debe saber

Research

Results
- Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study (OHTS) 6/14/04
- Early Manifest Glaucoma Trial (EMGT) 10/14/02
- Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study (OHTS) 6/13/02

Cybercast

Library of Congress Mid-Day Lecture: Dr. Eve Higginbotham Discusses Glaucoma

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Glaucoma is an eye disease in which the normal fluid pressure inside the eyes slowly rises, leading to vision loss--or even blindness. This brochure is about open-angle glaucoma, the most common form of the disease.

A scene as it might be viewed by a person with Glaucoma:

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