Vistakon Employees Donate $22K to K9s for Warriors

"Vistakon, the Jacksonville entity of Johnson and Johnson Vision Care, rallied its employees to donate more than $22,000 to Operation Orion to help the non-profit, K9s for Warriors," reports First Coast News. "The group, based in St. Johns County, is building a new facility in Nocatee. The money will operate the new center, which planners say will be the leading PTSD recovery center in the country using service/rescue dogs...K9s for Warriors currently operates in a small house in Nocatee. The program has a waiting list now more than a year long for veterans with PTSD coming in from all over the U.S." Read more.

Traumatic Brain Injury Increases Chances of Visual Problems

"Visual symptoms and abnormalities occur at high rates in people with traumatic brain injury (TBI)—including Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans with blast-related TBI, reports a study, “Mechanisms of TBI and Visual Consequences in Military and Veteran Populations”, in the February issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health," according to Midwest Lens. "Vision problems are similar for military and civilian patients with TBI, and are common even after relatively mild brain injury, according to the report by Gregory L. Goodrich, PhD, of the VA Palo Alto (Calif.) Health Care System and colleagues.'Comprehensive eye examinations are recommended following even mild traumatic brain injury,' comments Anthony Adams, OD, PhD, Editor-in-Chief of Optometry and Vision Science." Read more.