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Patients Win With Immediate Avastin Payment ReversalEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Following efforts by the American Academy of Ophthalmology with the help of the American Society of Retina Specialists, the Macula Society, the Retina Society and Congressional allies, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said that it will retract an Oct. 1 payment policy for small doses of Avastin. Avastin, a cancer drug, is used in smaller doses to treat eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD). (Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today)
Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today - November 20, 2009 Category: Opthalmology Tags: Eye Health / blindness Source Type: news

The American Optometric Association And Digital Healthcare, Inc. Sign Memorandum Of UnderstandingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The American Optometric Association (AOA) and Digital Healthcare, Inc. (DH) have joined together to assist optometrists in providing better care for patients with diabetes and other chronic diseases, and in promoting public health. Both parties recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). (Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today)
Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today - November 20, 2009 Category: Opthalmology Tags: Eye Health / blindness Source Type: news

The American Optometric Association And Digital Healthcare, Inc. Sign Memorandum Of UnderstandingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The American Optometric Association (AOA) and Digital Healthcare, Inc. (DH) have joined together to assist optometrists in providing better care for patients with diabetes and other chronic diseases, and in promoting public health. Both parties recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 20, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Eye Health / blindness Source Type: news

Patients Win With Immediate Avastin Payment ReversalEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Following efforts by the American Academy of Ophthalmology with the help of the American Society of Retina Specialists, the Macula Society, the Retina Society and Congressional allies, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said that it will retract an Oct. 1 payment policy for small doses of Avastin. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 20, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Eye Health / blindness Source Type: news

Stem cells: the first human trialEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
People suffering from a form of incurable blindness could soon become the first patients in the world to benefit from a new and controversial transplant operation using stem cells derived from spare human embryos left over from IVF treatment. (Source: The Independent - Science)
Source: The Independent - Science - November 20, 2009 Category: Science Tags: Science Source Type: news

First human trials for stem cell blindness therapyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The first human trials of a stem cell therapy for an eye disease that causes blindness in young people could start next year. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 19, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: blindness human trials stem cell fda Source Type: news

Recent CDC report shows Chlamydia on the riseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Lowdown on STD’s: Chlamydia Chlamydia is the third most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the United States. It is the most common bacteria causing an STI. According to a 2007 Center for Disease Control report, South Carolina ranks 3rd out of the 50 states in chlamydial infections. Those at most risk of infection are single, minority women between ages 15-21 with new or multiple sexual partners. However, Chlamydia affects women and men of all backgrounds. Like all sexually transmitted infections, Chlamydia enters a woman’s body during intercourse. Chl...
Source: Women Speak - November 19, 2009 Category: OBGYN Authors: My name Tags: Infectious Disease Gynecological Health Sex & Relationships Source Type: consumer

Company seeks to test stem cells for blindnessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Advanced Cell Technology, a small Massachusetts-based biotechnology company, said on Thursday it has asked for approval to test human embryonic stem cells in treating a rare cause of blindness. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 19, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news

Structural Changes In Brain May Help Offset Loss Of Vision And Strengthen Other SensesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Visually impaired people appear to be fearless, navigating busy sidewalks and crosswalks, safely finding their way using nothing more than a cane as a guide. The reason they can do this, researchers suggest, is that in at least some circumstances, blindness can heighten other senses, helping individuals adapt. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 19, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Eye Health / blindness Source Type: news

Structural Changes In Brain May Help Offset Loss Of Vision And Strengthen Other SensesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Visually impaired people appear to be fearless, navigating busy sidewalks and crosswalks, safely finding their way using nothing more than a cane as a guide. The reason they can do this, researchers suggest, is that in at least some circumstances, blindness can heighten other senses, helping individuals adapt. (Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today)
Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today - November 19, 2009 Category: Opthalmology Tags: Eye Health / blindness Source Type: news

Blindness causes structural brain changes, implying brain can re-organize itself to adaptEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Scientists have confirmed that blindness causes structural changes in the brain, implying that the brain may re-organize itself functionally in order to adapt to a loss in sensory inputs. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - November 19, 2009 Category: Science Source Type: news

Brain's ability to reorganizeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Visually impaired people appear to be fearless, navigating busy sidewalks and crosswalks, safely finding their way using nothing more than a cane as a guide. The reason they can do this, scientists suggest, is that in at least some circumstances, blindness can heighten other senses, helping individuals adapt........ (Source: Medicineworld.org: New Article Alert)
Source: Medicineworld.org: New Article Alert - November 19, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: info

UCLA study shows brain's ability to reorganizeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study shows the exceptional plasticity of the brain and its ability to reorganize itself after a major input — in this case, vision — is lost," said Leporé. "In other words, it appears the brain will attempt to compensate for the fact that a person can no longer see, and this is particularly true for those who are blind since early infancy, a developmental period in which the brain is much more plastic and modifiable than it is in adulthood." Researchers used an extremely sensitive type of brain imaging called tensor-based morphometry, which can detect very subtle changes in brain...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - November 18, 2009 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: organizations

Smoking Causes BlindnessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
AMD Alliance International strongly urges all smokers to participate in the Great American Smokeout on November 19 to save their eyes and protect their vision from the debilitating effects of macular degeneration. Research has demonstrated that age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a progressive disease that causes the loss of central vision, is two to three times as frequent among tobacco smokers, and the risk is dose dependent(1, 2). (Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today)
Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today - November 18, 2009 Category: Opthalmology Tags: Smoking / Quit Smoking Source Type: news

Sight gone, but not necessarily lost?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Like all tissues in the body, the eye needs a healthy blood supply to function properly. Poorly developed blood vessels can lead to visual impairment or even blindness. While many of the molecules involved in guiding the development of the intricate blood vessel architecture are known, only now are we learning how these molecules work and how they might affect sight. Researchers have now found that when some cells in the mouse retina are not properly fed by blood vessels, they can remain alive for many months and can later recover some or all of their normal function, suggesting that similar conditions in people may also b...
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - November 18, 2009 Category: Science Source Type: news

UCLA study shows brain's ability to reorganizeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(University of California - Los Angeles) Department of Neurology scientists at UCLA have confirmed that blindness causes structural changes in the brain, implying that the brain may re-organize itself functionally in order to adapt to a loss in sensory inputs. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - November 18, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Finding A Protective Mechanism For Retinal Cells Could Save SightEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Determining what triggers the death of retinal cells, called photoreceptors, could hold the key to stopping blinding disorders caused by a wide range of eye diseases, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the November journal Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. Several blinding disorders are known to cause the breakdown of photoreceptors. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Eye Health / blindness Source Type: news

Finding A Protective Mechanism For Retinal Cells Could Save SightEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Determining what triggers the death of retinal cells, called photoreceptors, could hold the key to stopping blinding disorders caused by a wide range of eye diseases, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the November journal Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. Several blinding disorders are known to cause the breakdown of photoreceptors. (Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today)
Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Opthalmology Tags: Eye Health / blindness Source Type: news

Survey Shows That Americans Lack Significant Knowledge Of Age-Related Vision ProblemsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It's a fact of life that eyes change with age, and baby boomers - Americans born between 1946 and 1964 - are at the stage when many are affected by vision problems. Despite the prevalence of Americans' affected by these changes, a new survey from the American Optometric Association (AOA) shows a concerning lack of public knowledge and misunderstanding regarding age-related eye diseases and conditions. (Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today)
Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Opthalmology Tags: Eye Health / blindness Source Type: news

Medical Groups Applaud CMS Adoption Of Long-Awaited Practice Expense UpdateEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A coalition of medical specialties today congratulated the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for its careful and reasoned implementation of up-to-date practice expense rates into its physician payments. The new practice expense rates that were recently issued by CMS use accurate data from a rigorous survey supported by more than 70 medical and health care professional groups, and they begin a long-needed correction that should remain untouched by Congress. (Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today)
Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Opthalmology Tags: Eye Health / blindness Source Type: news

Nigeria: FG Focuses On Blindness PreventionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Determined to reduce the number of Nigerians who lose their sight and become blind, the Federal Ministry of Health is partnering with Hellen Keller International (HKI) to prevent blindness and other tropical diseases in the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 17, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Watch Where You're Going!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Unicycling clowns and inattentional blindness (Source: Psychology Today)
Source: Psychology Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ira Hyman Tags: Cognition The Eyes Have It Source Type: consumer

Nigeria: Ministry, NGO Partner on Prevention of BlindnessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Federal Ministry of Health has said it is partnering Helen Keller International (HKI), an NGO, to prevent blindness and other tropical diseases in the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 16, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news

800,000 People With Diabetes Risk Serious Health Problems, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Diabetes UK warns that 797,067 people with diabetes in the UK are not achieving their recommended blood glucose levels. Data from GP practices of 2,366,363 people with diabetes over the age of 17 showed that 34 per cent are at risk of serious health problems such as blindness, heart disease, amputation and kidney failure. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 16, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Diabetes Source Type: news

800,000 People With Diabetes Risk Serious Health Problems, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Diabetes UK warns that 797,067 people with diabetes in the UK are not achieving their recommended blood glucose levels. Data from GP practices of 2,366,363 people with diabetes over the age of 17 showed that 34 per cent are at risk of serious health problems such as blindness, heart disease, amputation and kidney failure. For people with diabetes, achieving individually agreed blood glucose levels (HbA1c) within the range of 6.5 to 7. (Source: Diabetes News From Medical News Today)
Source: Diabetes News From Medical News Today - November 16, 2009 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Diabetes Source Type: news

November is Diabetes Awareness Month: Become Aware of the Warning Signs of DiabetesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(NaturalNews) Approximately 24 million people living in the United States have diabetes, but many of them don't know it. The reason they don't know it is because the symptoms of diabetes aren't unusual. For example, if they're feeling tired, it could easily be due to just not getting enough sleep. Using the facilities frequently? That could easily be due to drinking too much coffee to offset the sleepiness. So, this being Diabetes Awareness Month and all, it's time to become aware of the warning signs...before it's too late.In reality, these symptoms are the body's internal warning system, alerting the body that there's a ...
Source: NaturalNews.com - November 16, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news

Arts, Culture and Blindness: a study of blind students in the visual arts – By Simon HayhoeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Special Education - November 16, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Tom Muldowney Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Cardiac arrest with residual blindness after overdose of Tessalon(R) (benzonatate) perles. - Cohen V, Jellinek SP, Stansfield L, Truong H, Baseluos C, Marshall JP.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Background: The extent to which benzonatate (Tessalon(R)), a structurally similar agent to other local anesthetics including tetracaine and procaine, poses a risk to the public is not fully appreciated as it is still one of the most widely prescribed antit... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 15, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Poisoning Source Type: info

Carl Zeiss Meditec Introduces New Applications For The ATLAS Corneal Topographer At AAO-OptoEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
AAO-Opto Booth # 605 -- New software advances for the ATLAS® Corneal Topography System were released today by Carl Zeiss Meditec during the American Academy of Optometry meeting in Orlando, Florida. Review Software and MasterFit II™ Contact Lens Software for the ATLAS corneal topography system are designed to make clinical data and images more accessible for eye care providers, while facilitating improved eye care diagnosis and treatment solutions for patients. (Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today)
Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today - November 15, 2009 Category: Opthalmology Tags: Eye Health / blindness Source Type: news

Warning to 60,000 Scots on dangers of diabetesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
ALMOST 60,000 diabetics in Scotland are at risk of blindness, heart disease and kidney failure because their condition is not properly controlled, campaigners have warned. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)
Source: Scotsman.com News - Health - November 14, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Health fears for diabeticsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
ALMOST 800,000 diabetics are risking blindness, heart disease and kidney failure because their blood sugar levels are not under control. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)
Source: Scotsman.com News - Health - November 14, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

A rare case of sudden blindness due to a pituitary adenoma coincidentally infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Letter to the EditorDOI 10.1007/s00701-009-0551-7Authors Nicolaas A. Bakker, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen Department of Neurosurgery P.O. Box 30.001 9700 RB Groningen The NetherlandsEelco W. Hoving, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen Department of Neurosurgery P.O. Box 30.001 9700 RB Groningen The Netherlands Journal Acta NeurochirurgicaOnline ISSN 0942-0940Print ISSN 0001-6268 (Source: Acta Neurochirurgica)
Source: Acta Neurochirurgica - November 13, 2009 Category: Neurology Tags: Acta Neurochirurgica Source Type: journals

Many People With Hemianopia Have Difficulty Detecting Pedestrians While Driving, Study Advocates For Individual TestingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Schepens Eye Research Institute scientists have found that--when tested in a driving simulator--patients with hemianopia (blindness in one half of the visual field in both eyes) have significantly more difficulty detecting pedestrians (on their blind side) than normally sighted people. (Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today)
Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today - November 13, 2009 Category: Opthalmology Tags: Eye Health / blindness Source Type: news

Many People With Hemianopia Have Difficulty Detecting Pedestrians While Driving, Study Advocates For Individual TestingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Schepens Eye Research Institute scientists have found that--when tested in a driving simulator--patients with hemianopia (blindness in one half of the visual field in both eyes) have significantly more difficulty detecting pedestrians (on their blind side) than normally sighted people. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 13, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Eye Health / blindness Source Type: news

Clinical Studies Show B&L's Lo-Torque Design Delivers Better Rotational RecoveryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Bausch & Lomb announced that the company's Lo-Torque® lens design demonstrates significantly better rotational recovery, which can lead to more consistent vision, compared with Acuvue's accelerated stabilization design. These findings from two clinical studies were presented at Academy 2009, the American Academy of Optometry annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 13, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Eye Health / blindness Source Type: news

Clinical Studies Show B&L's Lo-Torque Design Delivers Better Rotational RecoveryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Bausch & Lomb announced that the company's Lo-Torque® lens design demonstrates significantly better rotational recovery, which can lead to more consistent vision, compared with Acuvue's accelerated stabilization design. These findings from two clinical studies were presented at Academy 2009, the American Academy of Optometry annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. (Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today)
Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today - November 13, 2009 Category: Opthalmology Tags: Eye Health / blindness Source Type: news

USC researcher and expert in metabolism to receive Columbia's 2009 Naomi Berrie AwardEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Columbia University Medical Center) The Award for Outstanding Achievement in Diabetes Research goes to Richard Nathan Bergman, Ph.D, Professor and Chair of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC). Dr. Bergman and three of his labs at USC are studying different aspects of the causes of type 2 diabetes, a disease which afflicts 20 million Americans, and which is a primary cause of heart disease, blindness and kidney disease. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 13, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

What Is Dry Eye Syndrome? What Causes Dry Eye Syndrome?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Dry eye syndrome, also known as keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS), keratitis sicca, sicca syndrome, xerophthalmia, or simply dry eyes, is an eye disease in which tear film evaporation is high or tear production is low. Dry eye syndrome is commonly found in humans and some animals. The patient's eyes dry out and become inflamed. (Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today)
Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today - November 12, 2009 Category: Opthalmology Tags: Eye Health / blindness Source Type: news

What Is Dry Eye Syndrome? What Causes Dry Eye Syndrome?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Dry eye syndrome, also known as keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS), keratitis sicca, sicca syndrome, xerophthalmia, or simply dry eyes, is an eye disease in which tear film evaporation is high or tear production is low. Dry eye syndrome is commonly found in humans and some animals. The patient's eyes dry out and become inflamed. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 12, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Eye Health / blindness Source Type: news

What Is A Detached Retina? What Causes A Detached Retina?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The retina is a thin layer of nerve cells lining the inside back wall of the eye. The retina is essential to see properly.Â�It turns the light that enters the eye into an image by sending a message along the optic nerve to the brain. When this layer becomes separated from the inner wall of the eye, it is called retinal detachment. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 12, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Eye Health / blindness Source Type: news

What Is A Detached Retina? What Causes A Detached Retina?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The retina is a thin layer of nerve cells lining the inside back wall of the eye. The retina is essential to see properly. It turns the light that enters the eye into an image by sending a message along the optic nerve to the brain. When this layer becomes separated from the inner wall of the eye, it is called retinal detachment. The retina peels away from its underlying layer of support tissue. If this is not treated, it usually leads to blindness in the affected eye. (Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today)
Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today - November 12, 2009 Category: Opthalmology Tags: Eye Health / blindness Source Type: news

Conjunctival Interleukin-13 Expression in Mucous Membrane Pemphigoid and Functional Effects of Interleukin-13 on Conjunctival Fibroblasts in Vitro.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Interleukin-13 (IL-13) is the dominant effector cytokine of fibrosis in pulmonary and liver disease. Excessive conjunctival fibrosis in the immunobullous disease ocular mucous membrane pemphigoid (MMP) causes blindness; the pathogenesis of scarring in this disease is incompletely understood. To determine whether IL-13 is involved in conjunctival fibrosis in MMP, we studied the expression of IL-13 in ocular MMP patients before and after systemic immunosuppression and examined the effects of IL-13 on normal human conjunctival fibroblasts. We found high stromal cell expression of IL-13 in active ocular MMP by immunohistoc...
Source: The American Journal of Pathology - November 12, 2009 Category: Pathology Authors: Saw VP, Offiah I, Dart RJ, Galatowicz G, Dart JK, Daniels JT, Calder VL Tags: Am J Pathol Source Type: journals

Intel Reader Takes Printed Text and Reads It AloudEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Intel is rolling out a device aimed at helping people with reading disabilities or blindness hear the written word. The Intel Reader takes printed text and reads it aloud, and can be combined with Intels Portable Capture Station, which collects and stores large amounts of text, such as book chapters or entire books. The goal is give the 55 million U.S. citizens with reading disabilities access to the books and other printed texts that everyone can read, according to Intels Digital Health Group. - Intel is introducing a mobile device designed to help people who have difficulty reading printed text. Intels Reader device, wh...
Source: eWeek Health Care - November 11, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info

What Is Double Vision? What Is Diplopia? What Causes Double Vision?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Double vision, also known as Diplopia, is the simultaneous perception of two images of a single object - the patient sees two images of a single thing either all the time, or some of the time. The displacement may be horizontally, vertically or diagonally. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 11, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Eye Health / blindness Source Type: news

What Is Double Vision? What Is Diplopia? What Causes Double Vision?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Double vision, also known as Diplopia, is the simultaneous perception of two images of a single object - the patient sees two images of a single thing either all the time, or some of the time. The displacement may be horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Diagonal double displacement (double vision) means both the horizontal lines and vertical lines are being perceived as doubled - also known as oblique separation. (Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today)
Source: Eye Health / Optometry News From Medical News Today - November 11, 2009 Category: Opthalmology Tags: Eye Health / blindness Source Type: news

Diabetics At Increased Risk For Vision Loss, Indiana University Ophthalmologists CautionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
If you have diabetes, a dilated eye exam should be at the top of your yearly health care to-do list. Diabetic eye disease, also known as diabetic retinopathy, is the leading cause of vision loss in American adults. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 11, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Eye Health / blindness Source Type: news