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Find out: Inactive ingredients in Prescription Drugs

Find out: Inactive ingredients in Prescription Drugs

Patients often ask what other ingredients may be found in their medications due to allergies or sensitivities they have. Find out more from this great article by By Joel Claycomb, PharmD: Click Here!     Copy and paste the link below if the link into your browser window if it does […]

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Why doesn’t Dr. Sexton prescribe eye glasses?

Why doesn’t Dr. Sexton prescribe eye glasses?

 We often get asked… “Why doesn’t Dr. Sexton prescribe eye glasses?”  Click here to find out    

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Eye-Friendly Computer Displays

As a doctor one of the things I love is how much I am able to learn from my patients. Often patients are able to identify things that work for them that fall outside the scope of what I am educated about and taught to prescribe. Light sensitivity or photophobia […]

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Comic Vision

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January 20, 2014

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Comic Vision

Comic Vision is a fundraiser for the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB).  If you haven’t heard of the FFB they are the biggest private sponsor of Canadian research for inherited retinal diseases. When my goddaughter and her brother were diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (an inherited form of blindness that onsets in […]

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Cosmetic Contact Lenses for Halloween are Scary

Every year in BC people dress up and use coloured contact lenses as part of their costumes. Wearing contact lenses that have not been fitted by a licensed optician, optometrist or ophthalmologist is downright dangerous. Many of the cosmetic contact lenses ordered over the internet aren’t licensed for use in […]

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Eating for Healthy Eyes – Nutrition & Retinal Eye Disease

Join Dr. Briar Sexton who will be doing a talk on Eating for Healthy Eyes- Nutrition & Retinal Eye Disease. Vision Quest Vancouver Saturday November 2, 2013 Library Square Conference Centre 1:15pm Section C 350 West Georgia Street http://www.ffb.ca/news/events/VQ/VQVancouver13Program.html We look forward to seeing you there.

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Food for Eye Health

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January 31, 2013

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Health

I have been really impressed with how many patients are asking me about what to eat and what supplements to take for eye health. If you are thinking of taking a supplement, come on in and talk to me about it. You don’t want to be on a higher dose […]

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