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Flying Eye Hospital Brings Hope for Eye Patients in Africa

...ye hospital. Many Ghanaians are in danger of going blind and according to the Ghana Health Service about 200,000 out of a 20 million population are already blind. "Cataract blindness accounts for half of these cases," the Ghana Health Service (GHS) said. Glaucoma accounts for 15 to 20 percent of cases,...

PM Stresses Need for More Awareness on Human Sexuality

... in Mumbai started drinking impure seawater in the blind belief that it had been mysteriously purified. "People have been drinking that water despite the risks that they attract. All these have emphasized the need for what (late prime minister) Jawaharlal Nehru used to call the cultivation of scientific ...

SWAN system for navigation

...re excited by the possibilities for people who are blind and visually impaired to use the SWAN auditory way...te with Georgia Tech to provide volunteers who are blind and visually impaired for focus groups, interviews and evaluation of the system." Collaboration I...

Biological Basis Behind a Couch Potato

...s must have more orexin receptors. When they did a blind analysis of the brains of obese and lean rats of various ages, they found that the lean rats had double the gene expression level of orexin receptors compared to the obese rats, Kotz explained. The greater gene expression of orexin receptors does n...

Drug Denial may Leave Several Thousands Blind

... to the campaigners, atleast 20,000 people will go blind unnecessarily due to this delay in approval.Though...s affects 10% of sufferers and accounts for 90% of blind registrations due to the disease. It can cause blindness within a matter of 3 months. The causes o...

Blinding-Disease Surgery Is Done Safely in Villages, by Nonphysicians

...tes that 8 million people are visually impaired or blind due to trachoma. Another 84 million are at risk of losing their eyesight due to active infection with Chlamydia trachomatis, the culprit bacteria. “There are multiple personal and societal barriers to surgery for trachoma trichiasis,” said lead aut...

Maimed Conscience and Maimed Beggars (Medical Ethics in India) – Part

...nging of the accused. The next time we look at a blind or a crawling beggar asking for alms, we will wonder if this was naturally fated or artificially created to win our sympathy to allow us to fish in our pockets and purses for a few coins. As an afterthought we may now stretch our imagination just a l...

Transgender Experience - A Tool to Analyze Gender Difference By Stanford Scientist

...s men and women to different standards, people are blind to their inherent biases, Barres said. In his commentary Barres points to data from a range of studies showing bias in science. For example, when a mixed panel of scientists evaluated grant proposals without names, men and women fared equally well....

Bush Administration to Exempt Medicaid Recipients on Proof of Citizenship

... for people with very low incomes who are elderly, blind or disabled. The number of people who receive Medicare and Medicaid is about six million. In most states, people receiving Supplemental Security Income are entitled to Medicaid. Dr. McClellan stated that the exemption would apply, for instance, to...

Blind Girl Students to Catwalk in Guwahati Fashion Show

...odels will sashay down the catwalk alongside eight blind girl students at a unique fashion show in this Assam city// . Preparations are on for the show 'Light Up the World' slated for July 17 at the ornate Pragjyoti cultural centre in Guwahati. Young fashion designer Himangshu Bora is busy training the ei...

Mild Intoxication Limit ‘Attention Span’ - Study Fins

...sychology said that even one drink can make people blind drunk//. The lead author of the study, Dr. Seema Clifasefi from the University of Washington reported that subjects when mildly intoxicated, showed to compromise their power of noticing an unusual object when concentrating on another task. The ph...

Older Adults could be Benefited from Chinese Martial-Arts

...ndomized control trial (RCT) designed with testers blind to group allocation and to combine laboratory platform balance measures with multiple measures of functional balance and physical performance. ‘It is also the first Tai Chi RCT to evaluate potential sensory organization improvements in elderly prac...

Neemuch-Eye Donor Capitol of India

...had pledged his eyes before he died because of his blind grandson, some decades ago. And now reports show t...fs like that those who donated their eyes would be blind when they were born into their second life. The Garg family has however reportedly pushed to campa...

Gastric bypass can cause deficiency of Vitamin A

...etically disposed to blindness //, but were either blind or suffered weak eyesight, revealed that they had undergone stomach/intestine related surgeries, which could have caused Vitamin A deficiency, leading to poor eyesight or even blindness. This report is available in the latest issue of the British Jou...

Second Youngest Child in the World to Undergo Eye Surgery

... report a seven-week-old British baby who was born blind was successfully operated//. Aaron Rai received...d in the world to undergo the surgery. He was born blind in one eye. He underwent the surgery in the New York State. James Aquavella, of the University...

'Being Disabled Is Not a Barrier to Success'

...ng of a decent life, 23-year-old Madhubala Sharma, blind since birth, has etched out// her own identity as ... in a multinational IT company here. Although the blind community faces a lot of barriers ranging from lack of education to poor acceptance among employers,...

Gene Therapy May Help Restore Sight In Congenital blindness

...kens, might one day protect children from becoming blind due to an inherited disease called Leber congenita...als who suffer from this disorder typically become blind in infancy. The scientists explained that they used a virus containing a normal copy of the defect...

Erosive esophagitis healing connected to acid control

.... Results from the multi-site, four-week, double blind trial demonstrated that patients were more likely to achieve healing of erosive esophagitis (EE) if their gastric acid was well controlled after five days of therapy. Gastric acid control was defined as intragastric pH > 4. In patients who were h...

Fat People Claim That They Would Give Their Limb Or Life Rather Than Being Fat

...ectively, said they would rather lose a limb or be blind than be overweight. ‘We were surprised by the sheer number of people who reported they would be willing to make major sacrifices to avoid being obese. It drives home the message that weight bias is powerful and pervasive,’ said Marlene Schwartz, as...

Court Rejects Case of Negligence by Disabled Children against the Doctors

...e such is that of Alexia Harriton, 25 who is deaf, blind and mentally disabled. She said that her family doctor had not informed her mother about the rubella infection early in her mother's pregnancy. Another case is that of a five-year-old Keeden Waller who was born with brain damage and is currently suff...

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