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This World Health Day, let's focus on eye health
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 6 (ANI): Eye health is one of the most ignored topics in the health domain. Eye-related diseases - especially Retinal Diseases like Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and Diabetic macular edema (DME) - are disabling.
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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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Concerns over vision loss from off-label drug
Updated : 8 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 05 (ANI): There have been concerns about off-label drug use causing vision loss in the patients.
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Retinal disease, a leading cause of chronic blindness
Updated : 8 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 16 (ANI): The blind population in India is estimated to rise to 15 million by 2020. Retinal diseases account for a significant share of the vision loss burden, compared to other eye-related diseases that can cause blindness.
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Researchers find way to stop vision loss among elderly
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 28 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have found the trigger for macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss among the elderly.
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Eating healthy can make you feel sick
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
London [UK], Oct. 10 (ANI): Nowadays, people are becoming obsessive for losing weight and switching to healthy eating.
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This gene can cause vision loss in middle-age
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sep 07 (ANI): A team of scientists has recently discovered a gene that may damage eye cells by gradual degeneration of retina, causing sight-loss in middle age.
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Visually-impaired Gujarat girl aims to open NGO for blind
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Vadodara (Gujarat) [India], Apr. 11 (ANI): The 21-year-old Gujarat girl who has been able to make it to the Indian Institute of Management (IIM)-Ahmedabad even after having 80 percent vision loss, aspires to open an NGO for blind children for their support and guidance.
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Boosting the potency of broccoli may help treating age-related vision loss
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C., July 7 (ANI): Buck researchers have found that boosting the potency of broccoli-related compound by ten times could help treating age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a prime cause of vision loss.
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