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Survivors of childhood cancer may have long-term health problems

...liver, ovarian or testicular failure, and becoming blind or losing an eye. These problems will affect these people as direct fallout of radiation therapy or chemotherapy. Problems that may severely affect them are second cancers, heart disease, kidney transplant or need for dialysis, mental retardation, an...

Sleepiness May Be Associated With Visual Impairment

...e likely to suffer sleepiness than even those were blind due to non-optic nerve disease. Recent work has indicated that the retina contains non-visual photoreceptors that communicate with the area of the brain involved in circadian rhythms. Thus researchers say, physicians and other health care professio...

New Kidney Transplantation procedure

... not match. "Through this technique we temporarily blind the function of the spleen that otherwise rejects the kidney from a high risk donor," P. Ravichandran, head, Nephrology and Transplantation, Kidney Disease and Institute of Organ Transplantation, and a member of the team, said at a press conference i...

The Link Between Eye Disease And Sleepiness

...e likely to suffer sleepiness than even those were blind due to non-optic nerve disease. Recent work has indicated that the retina contains non-visual photoreceptors that communicate with the area of the brain involved in circadian rhythms. Researchers say, “Physicians and other health care professionals...

The Cause Of Visual Problems Different From Race To Race

... more than 60 percent of the black patients became blind because of cataracts and glaucoma. Researchers say cataracts were the leading cause of low vision. The leading cause of blindness among Hispanics was glaucoma. Researchers conclude saying that the specific causes of visual impairment, and especially...

Smoking Linked to Blindness

...s smokers are up to four-times as likely to become blind later in life from age-related macular degeneration. The study showed quitting smoking slows the development of the blinding condition. On the other hand, continued smoking can affect the long-term response to treatments such as laser therapy. One ...

Benign eye tumors being treated

...ficantly worsening vision and an expanding central blind spot. Researchers used photodynamic therapy to treat the detached retinas and shrink the tumors. Photodynamic therapy includes a light-sensitive dye that produces blood clots to terminate the growth of abnormal new blood vessels. In all three cases...

Cure for blindness

...nts.Retinal cell transplants can restore vision in blind rats, thereby opening up new possibilities for them. Researchers at the University of Texas, have transplanted human retinal cells into rats born with a predisposition to blindness.// Experiments showed that the rats were then able to distinguish pat...

Ranbaxy joins hand with Cipla to co-market ciprofloxacin

... Hence, Ciproflxacin is being extensively used for blind therapy of infections. According to the company, the alliance with Cipla for ciprofloxacin will be a win-win situation for both companies, enabling to leverage its combined marketing prowess and extensive distribution network. Ranbaxy official said ...

Developmental, neurologic problems common in extremely preterm infants

...were cerebral palsy. Also, 2% of the children were blind or only perceived light, and 3% had hearing loss. Overall, 49% of the children had a disability, according to the investigators, and 23% were classified as severely disabled....

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