If numbers are to be believed, the incidence of deadly H1N1 virus in India seems to be dropping. Health Ministry statistics have lately shown a marked fall in the number of swine flu deaths and infections in India. India reported only 12 cases of H1N1...
The Hanoi Health Department and the Standard Chartered bank on March 23 signed a memorandum of understanding for a project on preventing blindness for Vietnamese children with a total funding of US$630,000. The funding will go to the 4th phase of the...
The number of people suffering from dry eyes has doubled in the past six years, possibly due to workers staying indoors without adequate ventilation systems. According to research by the National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC), the number of people...
STARTING today, persons who are unable to afford professional eye care services can seek help at the Lions Sight Foundation Clinic at 30 Beechwood Avenue in Kingston. The clinic, which was officially opened on Friday, is a project of the Lions Club of...
Does food taste better if you can't see it? An experiment in flavors is going on in Missoula tonight. More than 375 people filled the banquet room at the Doubletree Hotel thanks to Missoula High School student senior, Jane Shober. For her senior project,...
The study states that the indications of the disease, which are often hard to detect, can be studied by investigating the neuronal activity behind the brain where all sensory information about senses like sound, heat, cold, pain, and pressure originate....
Middlesex Community College held its annual Community Eyecare Days last week, providing free ocular health services to local residents in need. The program was coordinated exclusively by students of the college's Ophthalmic Design and Dispensing program,...
The Australian government needs to improve access to vision correction and alternative eye surgery options, it has been claimed. According to the University of Melbourne's chair of indigenous eye health Professor Hugh Taylor, while there has been a dramatic...
Arnall Patz helped solve the riddle of how 10,000 babies went blind. Dr. Patz, who died Thursday at age 89, was the Johns Hopkins ophthalmologist who in 1954 showed that treating premature babies with pure oxygen had the unexpected result of destroying...
25,000,000 Eyes Will Be Tested for Glaucoma World Wide With DIATON Tonometer Starting On World Glaucoma Day Since IntraOcular(IOP) or Eye Pressure is one of the major risk factors of Glaucoma, early detection is the key to preventing blindness. BiCOM...
