Macular Degeneration Awareness Week 2010 runs from Monday 24 – Sunday 30 May and this year’s theme is “How’s your macula?”
Macular Degeneration (MD) is the leading cause of blindness in Australia, affecting central vision. MD is primarily age related and most frequently...
What is Bardet-Biedl syndrome?
Bardet-Biedl syndrome is a complex disorder that affects many parts of the body including the retina. Individuals with this syndrome have a retinal degeneration similar to retinitis pigmentosa (RP).
What are the symptoms?
The diagnosis of Bardet-Biedl syndrome is usually...
What is Usher syndrome?
Usher syndrome is an inherited condition characterized by hearing impairment and progressive vision loss. The vision loss is due to retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a degenerative condition of the retina, and usually appears during adolescence or early adulthood. Balance may also be...
Foundation Fighting Blindness started a new research an age-related macular degeneration.
What is age-related macular degeneration?
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a retinal degenerative disease that causes a progressive loss of central vision. AMD is the most common cause of vision loss in...
So you have decided to go to your eye doctor and make that obscure laser surgery for your eyes. But from which step do you need to start? Your thoughts:
“Hm… I will make an appointment with my eye doctor, optometrist whatever his position and he/she will tell me everything about this surgery...
When you meet people at a first time you notice their eyes. You see their eyes’ color, size and movements. That’s why there are a reason to make your eyes beautiful.
Recently, many methods have emerged to change eye color and some of them change the eye color permanently. There are artificial...
Highlights of October’s Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, include good news on preserving vision in people with type 1 diabetes, a warning from the Cardiovascular Health Study for macular degeneration patients, and look at vision’s impact on well-being across...
SAN FRANCISCO — A Veterans Administration probe that found eight veterans suffered potentially preventable vision loss while under the care of optometrists at a Northern California VA facility is prompting medical groups to call for a state investigation.
The groups sent a petition Wednesday to the...
People have the opportunity to have their eyes checked with one-of-a-kind equipment for free, while helping to solve the mystery behind the leading cause of blindness in Australia. Even people with healthy eyes, aged 50 and over, are being encouraged to participate in the Queensland University of Technology...
Glaucoma is a condition of the eye in which a build-up of pressure inside the eye causes degenerative changes that damage the retina and optic nerve, therefore resulting in blindness.
Your eye needs a certain amount of pressure to keep the eyeball in shape so that it can work properly. In some people,...
“The Báb hath said that the people of Bahá must develop the science of medicine to such a high degree that they will heal illnesses by means of foods. The basic reason for this is that if, in some component substance of the human body, an imbalance should occur, altering its correct, relative proportion to the whole, this fact will inevitably result in the onset of disease.” by Bab
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