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India reduces visual impairment by 52 %: Survey
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 10 (ANI): In a significant achievement, India has reduced the prevalence of visual impairment by about 52 per cent, surpassing the target of 25 set by World Health Organisation (WHO), according to National Blindness Visually Impaired Survey (2015- 2019).
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Blindness came down by 30%, cataract still remains leading cause in India
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 9(ANI): While cataract still remains the leading cause of blindness in India, the prevalence of blindness in the country has come down by over 30 per cent, revealed the findings of National Blindness Visually Impaired Survey (2019) as compared with 2006-07 National Bli
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Madhya Pradesh: 11 lose sight after eye operation in Indore
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Aug 17 (ANI): Eleven people, who underwent a free cataract surgery here around ten days ago, have lost their vision.
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Cases of trachoma trichiasis -- a cause of blindness -- on rise in India
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 13 (ANI): Union Health Ministry has received fresh cases of trachomatous trichiasis (TT) with prevalence rate at 3.5 per 1,000 population while the World Health Organisation (WHO) restricts the disease's prevalence to less than two per 1,000 population.
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Initiatives on avoidable blindness develops models to prevent, treat sight
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India] Jun 11 (ANI/NewsVoir): In a first of its kind initiative, to address the problem of avoidable blindness in India, the Ministry of Health, Government of India, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), t
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Nature has cure for blindness due to diabetes: Study
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 9 (ANI): Nature is believed to hold the answers for the treatment of causes of blindness, says a study published in the Journal of Natural Products.
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New urine test detects cause of river blindness
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA] Aug 28(ANI): Scientists have developed a new urine diagnostic to detect the parasitic worms that cause river blindness, also called onchocerciasis, a tropical disease that afflicts 18 to 120 million people worldwide.
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World Senior Citizens Day: AMD, leading cause of chronic blindness in elde
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 21 (ANI): Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is one of the important causes of severe visual loss in the elderly population. It constitutes to 8.7% of the world population.
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Childhood blindness gene discovered
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA] July 24(ANI): Our genome is made up of 20,000 genes, all of which may cause diseases.
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'Walk in the Dark' organised to raise awareness about avoidable blindness
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Aizawl (Mizoram) [India], June 23 (ANI): A 'Walk in the Dark' organised here in Aizawl on Saturday drew an enthusiastic response from over 300 blind and visually impaired children, as well as school-going children and prominent citizens.
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Psychological stress could cause blindness
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 20 (ANI): Did you know! Psychological stress can also cause vision loss, finds a study.
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Young Indians in the radar of glaucoma
Updated : 7 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 18 (ANI): With over 70% of the Indians at a risk of developing glaucoma, on an average, over two lakh of them lose vision.
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