Visual impairments

Blindness (27)
Eye condition (1)
Myopia (3)
Optometrist (2)
Strabismus (2)

Synopsis: 5. medicine & health: 1. diseases: Diseases: Visual impairments:

Depth of fieldin Bridgeman's case, he was left with a condition called alternating exotropic strabismus, often called"lazy eye Â

"It's not included in any of the standard tests that optometrists do, Â says Laurie Wilcox, a vision specialist at York University in Toronto."

lower disease resistance, stunt growth and even cause blindness, which greatly increases a person's risk of death in the developing world.

opening up a literary trove for the blind and the visually impaired who have had long only a thin selection of audio

and was known to cause blindness. So Dahl partnered with a hydraulic engineer and a neurosurgeon to come up with a better solution the Wade-Dahl-Till valve.

But Lieberman pointed out that myopia also known as nearsightedness when faraway objects look blurry has increased substantially with the advent of writing and reading.

and are blind and furless. When born the joey climbs into its mother's pouch

Vyn camped out a tent and a blind with only a sleeping bag for warmth waiting for the eggs to hatch.

temporary blindness may result if the eyes were exposed. Inhalation can cause serious lung damage and exposure to mustard gas can increase the risk of cancer.

Kids who play outside more often are less likely to develop nearsightedness obesity diabetes and Vitamin d deficiencies.

However Vitamin b12 is possibly effective at preventing age-related macular degeneration a common eye condition that leads to vision loss.

And Vitamin b12 supplements can potentially harm the optic nerve and cause blindness in people with the rare hereditary condition called Leber's disease.

which can cause problems such as blindness and mental disability later in life reports the CDC.

Venom in the eyes can lead to blindness if not washed out well. These 18-footers are the longest of all venomous snakes.

and iron to help to combat blindness and anaemia in rural areas. But the future of Uganda's biotechnology advances remains uncertain.

So the pig became the first model for retinitis pigmentosa, a cause of blindness. And four years ago, researchers created a pig model of cystic fibrosis2 that

It gave birth to blind, hairless young, one at a time. Its brain was folded highly, and it had three pairs of molars on each jaw."

a common cause of blindness. Final approval by Takahashi s institution is expected soon, and she plans to start recruiting patients as early as September.

Soon after its invention media reports billed it as a savior for kids in developing countries suffering from Vitamin a deficiency the number-one cause of preventable blindness in children worldwide.

It is responsible for over a million deaths about half a million cases of irreversible blindness and millions of cases of xerophthalmia annually.

âÂ# Note that the article declares Vitamin a deficiency âÂ#Âoethe number-one cause of preventable blindness in children worldwideã¢Â#Â

After all how many populations anywhere have populations as widely blind as the statements on unanswered Vitamin a deficiency is intended to suggest?

and aiming one well enough to temporarily blind one of the pilots (and there are two) is almost completely impossible.

which can lead to blindness. MIT biologist Jeroen Saeij and his colleagues are trying to figure out why some forms of the disease are so innocuous

because kin-blindness benefits the colony. But it's also possible that the veil of ignorance arose for other reasons

But a new Duke university study says it can link what is in a patient's urine to gene mutations that cause retinitis pigmentosa or RP an inherited degenerative disease that results in severe vision impairment and often blindness.

so advanced statistical techniques must be employed to screen out frequency differences between the diseased and healthy groups that are at bottom the mere results of blind chance.

You sort of squint your eyes and it takes a while and all of a sudden you get that moment--boom!

Vitamin a deficiency causes blindness in 250000 to 500000 children every year half of whom die within a year of losing their eyesight according to the World health organization.

Insufficient carotenoids may also contribute to macular degeneration in the elderly a leading cause of blindness in older populations in Europe

The double-blind randomized clinical trial included 16 healthy subjects ages 19 to 30 to assess

By way of a'blind test'Cherubini recently asked 10 experts in five tree-ring laboratories in various countries to date the same wood samples from olive-tree branches.

management tips from Intel Pepsico grant supports clean water in rural China Many businesses blind to water risks

or optometrists, or dentists, teaching them how to take care of these needs for their own people.

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