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Asians in US Increasingly Undergoing Plastic Surgery to Look White

...e such operations. The most popular are nose and eye surgeries. For instance one has only to look at th...ying to understand better the anatomy of the Asian eye and are evolving more ethnically sensitive procedures, Park adds. GPL...

Vitamin A Deficiency Leads to Large-scale Blindness in North East

...use of vitamin-related problems. Effective primary eye care intervention can certainly prevent such a fat..., says Srimanta Sankaradeva Nethralaya, a premier eye care institution that conducted the study.It also expressed concern at the lack of specialist pediat...

Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise for Rescuing Deteriorating Vision

...to protect the vision of animals with degenerative eye disease similar to the kinds of diseases that affl... were shown to protect vision and the cells in the eye that underpin sight. The new findings are important because they suggest there may be novel ways ...

Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise for Rescuing Deteriorating Vision

...to protect the vision of animals with degenerative eye disease similar to the kinds of diseases that affl... were shown to protect vision and the cells in the eye that underpin sight. The new findings are important because they suggest there may be novel ways...

Novel Methods in Diagnosing Oral Cancer

...receded by lesions, which are visible to the naked eye prior to transformation. A non-invasive diagnostic modality would permit regular monitoring of these lesions, detection of lesion transformation, and the identification of treatment needs at a very early, relatively harmless stage. (2) High-risk po...

Six Lose Sight Due to Medical Negligence in Eye Camp

Bhubaneswar: At least six people lost an eye each allegedly due to medical neglect after catara...ed to the police that they had lost their operated eye due to negligence of the doctors, a police official said. The officials however denied the allega...

Playing Video Games Could Improve Eyesight

...spects of vision have to do with the size of one's eye and the thickness and shape of the cornea and lens. But some visual defects are neural in nature, said Bevelier, author of the new study on vision and video games published in the journal Psychological Science. First-person shooter action games h...

Hydrolysed Casein Formula may Slash Eczema in Infants

...ighly emotive area, with watchdogs keeping a close eye on companies' marketing tactics lest they drift towards promoting their products as preferable to breast-feeding. While it is agreed that breastfeeding is the best way to ensure an infant receives the nutrients it needs in its first months, formul...

AAO Urges Athletes to Wear Protective Eyewear

...sjudged catch. That’s the number of sports-related eye injuries that occur annually in the United States....-specific protective eyewear properly fitted by an eye care professional. “Athletes need to choose to use protective eyewear because eye injuries can be ...

Let Blind Eyes Be Opened - Stem Cell Therapy and Aniridia

...e new limbal stem cells, which have arrived at the eye through the bloodstream. "Once we understand what has prompted their growth, then we can understand what they can do for other parts of the body", he adds. Similar transplants have been carried out in Japan, the US, Italy and Taiwan, but this is ...

Barking Up the Right Tree to Cure Retinoblastoma

... possible cure for a notorious type of childhood// eye cancer, called retinoblastoma. Retinoblastoma accounts for nearly 3% of all cancers in children, affecting about one in 15000 children. Usually the cancer affects children below 6 years of age, and if left untreated can be fatal. Dr. Joan O'Brien o...

Zinc in Body Could Affect Eyes: Study

... part of the body, could be an indicator of common eye diseases, says a study that could help// in the de... people having more zinc levels in deposits in the eye might have AMD. The early sign of the disease is the formation of microscopic structures called dr...

Beta Carotene Pills Do Not Remedy Age-related Macular Degeneration

... that the number of doctors who came down with the eye condition in both groups were the same. The findings reveal that beta carotene may not be helpful in cases of macular degeneration although positive treatment outcomes might be achieved when combined with vitamins and zinc. But the best bet is to c...

Programs to Prevent Falls Among Elders Not Doing Their Work

...he study and many of the subjects who received new eye glasses had major changes in their prescription. ... 'In frail, older people, comprehensive vision and eye assessment, with appropriate treatment, does not reduce and may even increase the risk of falls and ...

Banned Additives Found in Children’s Medicine

...icines which are known to cause wheezing, skin and eye irritation. Sulphite preservatives are said to increase the overload of immune system. Tixylix, the infant’s night cough syrup has both benzoate and suplhite preservatives. Four different sweeteners were found in Morrisons junior paracetamol and Supe...

Dry Eye Syndrome Affects Visual Functions

... is one of the most frequent reasons patients seek eye care. With few published data on the impact of DES on quality of life, the researchers assessed the effect on several common activities such as reading, driving, computer work, professional work and watching television. Selecting subjects who were ...

Biologists Trace Cause Of Early Blindness To Tissue Defect

...eir visual worlds—in zebrafish, a vertebrate whose eye physiology is essentially identical to that of a human. Recently he became intrigued by a 30-year-old debate involving photoreceptor death—specifically, whether it was a cause or an effect—in choroideremia, an X chromosome-linked hereditary retinal d...

Pass the Orange Tomato Sauce Please

...t to cause cancer, and ageing, battles age-related eye problems and is also good for the heart. Lycopene is found in many orange and red colored fruits and vegetables. The researchers led by Dr. Steven Schwartz, did their study using 12 adult volunteers. They were asked to refrain from eating tomatoes ...

Type 1 Diabetes Linked to Pancreatic Cancer

...n complications of diabetes such as heart disease, eye disease, and kidney disease and not on the very small risk of cancer. In the whole scheme of things, pancreatic cancer is a rare disease -- and even twice the risk is not very significant. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

India to Beat Blindness Elimination Target by 2015: Health Minister

...ster, however, admitted that India has only 12,000 eye surgeons for a population of over 1 billion, which means one eye surgeon for 100,000 people. In urban areas, there is one eye surgeon for 20,000 people and in rural ...

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