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Urgent and accelerated efforts needed for universal eye coverage, vision f
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The World Health Organization has called for accelerated action to provide quality, affordable, integrated, and people-centred eye care for everyone, in order to address the increase in vision impairment and blindness in the WHO South-East Asia Region.
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Freedom from Diabetes (FFD) completes 10 glorious years
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], February 16 (ANI/PNN): "We consider health and happiness as twin goals of our life. Many of us believe that if we are healthy, we are happy, but we fail to realise that if we are happy, we automatically become healthy. Happiness generates health, and true happine
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Gorakhpur: B.Tech students design 'Shiva Stick' to enable visually impaire
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Digital India' campaign, some girl students studying B.Tech at Gorakhpur's Madan Mohan Malviya Engineering College have designed a smart stick for the benefit of the visually impaired.
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Low brain pressure could be risk factor for developing glaucoma: Research
Updated : 3 years ago IST
An international team of researchers led by Lithuanian scientists provide additional evidence that intracranial pressure plays an important role in normal-tension glaucoma, which accounts for up to 50 per cent of all glaucoma cases. A recent clinical study demonstrates that low intracranial
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Research reveals preventative measures for optic nerve hypoplasia
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC are looking at potential preventative and therapeutic measures for the disease, optic nerve hypoplasia (ONH), which causes vision impairment in newborns.
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Study reveals preventative, therapeutic measures of optic nerve hypoplasia
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC are looking at potential preventative and therapeutic measures for the disease, optic nerve hypoplasia (ONH), which causes vision impairment in newborns.
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Researchers reveal short-term exposure to air pollution has rapid impact
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
According to a new study, common levels of traffic pollution can impair human brain function in just a few hours. The study was the first to demonstrate, in a controlled experiment using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), that diesel exhaust interferes with the ability of differen
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Study suggests brief exposure to air pollution has rapid impacts on brain
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A new study has shown that common levels of traffic pollution can impair human brain function in only a matter of hours. The study was the first to show in a controlled experiment using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) that exposure to diesel exhaust disrupts the ability of diffe
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Sundance jury walks out of film festival; find out why
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Sundance's U.S. Dramatic Competition jurors walked out of the premiere of 'Magazine Dreams' on Friday night after the festival failed to provide adequate captioning for deaf and hearing-impaired audience members, including juror Marlee Matlin.
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'Smart' walking stick might help visually impaired with shopping, finding
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder are using artificial intelligence developments to create a new type of walking stick for those who are blind or visually impaired.
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Delhi HC asks Yashraj Films to prepare audio description, subtitles of mov
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Justice Prathiba M Singh directed the film producer to prepare an audio description, close captioning, and subtitles within two weeks and submit it to the Central Board of Film Certification for a decision on re-certification by February 20.
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Study finds how retirement plans affect cognitive performance in older peo
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Researchers from the State University of New York's Binghamton University found that early retirement can hasten cognitive impairment in older people.
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