More boomer women experiencing chronic dry eye condition

You spend most of your day working on a computer, then step outside to hot, dry weather. Chances are good you suffer from dry eye. Make those chances very good if you are a boomer-age or older woman. Almost 21 million people in the United States, about two-thirds of them women, experience chronic dry eye, a condition that occurs when eyes don't produce the right quantity or quality of tears, says the nonprofit National Women's Health Resource Center, based in Red Bank, N.J.