Tag: blindness

A Teen Boy’s Diet of Fries and Sausage Led to Blindness, According to a New Case Study

Sep 04 2019- POSTED BY Loknath Das

A new case study highlights a serious, though rare, side effect of a poor diet: blindness. In the Annals of Internal Medicine, a […]

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As World’s Population Ages, Blindness Rates Likely to Grow

Aug 07 2017- POSTED BY Loknath Das

THURSDAY, Aug. 3, 2017 (HealthDay News) — More than 36 million people worldwide are blind, while 217 million more have […]

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Trachoma: 5 Things You Didn’t Know About This Eye Infection That Cause Blindness

Mar 17 2017- POSTED BY Loknath Das

  Trachoma, also known as blinding Trachoma, is an eye infection caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis and is turning […]

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Trachoma: 5 Things You Didn’t Know About This Eye Infection That Cause Blindness

Mar 14 2017- POSTED BY Loknath Das

Trachoma, also known as blinding Trachoma, is an eye infection caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis and is turning out […]

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Tight diabetes control permit you to beat back blindness

Jun 13 2016- POSTED BY Sayantani Singha

you can protect your vision from the outcomes of diabetes via intensively controlling your blood sugar stage, consistent with a […]

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Nobel Prize Awarded to Scientists Who Helped Defeat River Blindness

Apr 08 2016- POSTED BY Subhadip

Scientists William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura have won a shared 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discoveries that […]

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Edited stem cells offer hope of precision therapy for blindness

Mar 09 2016- POSTED BY Subhadip

Findings raise the possibility of treating blinding eye diseases using a patient’s own corrected cells as replacement tissue. Using a […]

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