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AllAboutVision.com Appoints New Editor.


LA JOLLA, Calif. -- Marilyn Haddrill, a journalist with 30 years' experience in consumer and medical publishing, has been appointed Editor of AllAboutVision.com.

Ten years ago, Haddrill began covering the eye care field as a correspondent and contributing editor for EyeWorld magazine, published by the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Refractive surgery
A surgical procedure that corrects visual defects.

Mentioned in: Photorefractive Keratectomy and Laser-Assisted In-Situ Keratomileusis

refractive surgery 
. Her work also has appeared in the European Society of Cataract and Refractive refractive

capacity to refract light.


refractive error
a difference between the focal length of the cornea and lens, and the length of the eye, resulting in myopia or hyperopia.
 Surgery's Eurotimes. Articles she has ghostwritten Ghostwritten is the first novel published by the author David Mitchell. Published in 1999, it won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was widely acclaimed. The story takes place mainly around East Asia, but also moves through Russia, Britain and the USA.  for ophthalmologists have been published in Ocular Surgery News and other professional eye care publications.

Haddrill has worked as a full-time and freelance writer-photographer for many news publications, including the Dallas Morning News. Her work has appeared in USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, and AARP's Modern Maturity. Recently she was the Vision guide for About.com, and was a content section editor for AllAboutVision.com.

AllAboutVision.com is a one-stop, independent resource providing consumers with hundreds of pages of trustworthy information on eye health and vision correction. The site served more than six million people last year.

AllAboutVision.com's most popular content sections are:

LASIK LASIK laser-assisted in-situ keratomileusis.

LA·SIK
n.
Eye surgery in which the surface of the cornea is reshaped using a laser, performed to correct certain refractive disorders such as myopia.
 & Vision Surgery: http://www.allaboutvision.com/visionsurgery/

Contact Lenses: http://www.allaboutvision.com/contacts/

Eyeglasses eyeglasses or spectacles, instrument or device for aiding and correcting defective sight. Eyeglasses usually consist of a pair of lenses mounted in a frame to hold them in position before the eyes. : http://www.allaboutvision.com/eyeglasses/

Eye Problems & Diseases: http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/

AllAboutVision.com is published by Access Media Group, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

LLC - Logical Link Control
, a print and electronic publisher specializing in vision care.
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