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Developmental Vision, Well-Trained Minds, and Rod Everson
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I’ve blogged before about what a fan I am of the Well-Trained Minds Forum, and the even-handed discussions of vision and vision therapy there. The latest discussion there on the subject contains a nice contribution by Rod Everson, with a link to his website, OnTrack Reading. I enjoyed reading much of what Rod Everson has to write. He pretty much nails every topic we’ve addressed on our blog related to vision and reading right on the head, and he pulls no punches.
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Repetition is the curse of the doctor-patient engagement
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How many times as a doctor do you ask the same questions over and over again as part of the routine process of taking a history from your patient? And how often as a patient do you have to answer those same questions each time you see a new doctor? How long does this take, given that doctors and patients both complain that there is too little time for the modern consultation to cover all the bases to the satisfaction of both parties?
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Click here to find out more! Weekly Wrap-up: Social Media Reference Guide and More
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Flowtown releases a great social media cheat sheet for those new to social media. Dan Frommer wonders if downloads or discs are more applicable for the next gen XBox. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.
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Spring Training and Vision Training
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If you happen to read my personal blog, you know I love baseball and in particular spring training. Though I was born and raised in Philadelphia, and have a lifelong attachment to the Phillies, our daughter and son-in-law reside in Cincinnati with their three girls so I’ve developed a secondary interest in following their team. An article in PLoS One caught my eye not only because of the title
High-Performance Vision Training Improves Batting Statistics for University of Cincinnati Baseball Players
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Patients will understand an honest mistake if the doctor tells the truth
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It was 1976 and I was a junior resident in urology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. I was assigned to a rotation in pathology where my job was to process specimens taken at surgery, dictate a gross description of the specimen and then place the specimens into the cassettes that would be used to make the permanent sections.
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Lagging US eye care technologies may fall even further behind
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on Saturday, 28 January 2012
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The slow path to approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that new products face is threatening to push the market, which is already two generations behind in some technologies, even further back, a speaker said here.
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Time is now for retina exams to move from slit lamp to OCT biomicroscopy
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With the evolution of biomicroscopy and the ability of the optical coherence tomography platform to consistently and efficiently store, measure and compare useful images, retina specialists should begin considering shifting away from the slit lamp to OCT biomicroscopy, a speaker here said.
http://bit.ly/xMZExo
A new, pachymetry-based approach for diagnostic cutoffs for normal, suspect and keratoconic cornea
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Source: nature .com
Purpose
To analyze whether an association exists between keratometric and pachymetric changes in the cornea, and whether it can be used to create pachymetric cutoff criteria secondary to keratometric criteria.
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OCT preferred to fundus cameras
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Source: opticianonline .net
3-D optical coherence tomography may be more sensitive than non-mydriatic colour fundus imaging for detecting retinal abnormalities.
In a presentation at last week's Hawaiian Eye 2012 conference in Maui, Dr Andrew Walsh of Envision Diagnostics claimed that 'an ideal retinal screening system would efficiently screen out those not needing full exams, would be accurate enough to detect minor abnormalities and would be non-invasive for asymptomatic patients'.
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Evidence that convergence rather than accommodation controls intermittent distance exotropia
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Purpose: This study considered whether vergence drives accommodation or accommodation drives vergence during the control of distance exotropia for near fixation. High accommodative convergence to accommodation (AC/A) ratios are often used to explain this control, but the role of convergence to drive accommodation (the CA/C relationship) is rarely considered. Atypical CA/C characteristics could equally, or better, explain common clinical findings.
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Macular Degeneration Improves With Embryonic Stem Cells in Pilot Study
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Source: medscape .com
Before treatment, the 51-year-old graphic artist was legally blind, unable to read a single letter on a standard eye chart. She has suffered from Stargardt's disease, the most common form of macular degeneration in young patients, since she was a teenager, and it was getting progressively worse.
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Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus Is Not Just for the Elderly
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Source: medscape .com
Our group at Wills Eye Institute retrospectively reviewed the charts of all patients with a diagnosis of herpes zoster ophthalmicus (HZO) who were seen in 2008. Whereas some of these patients were seen for the first time that year, others were being followed after receiving treatment years before. The patients were divided into 2 groups, patients younger or older than 60 years of age at the time of the initial episode of HZO. Several parameters were compared.
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Visual performance and optical quality with soft lenses in keratoconus patients
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Purpose: To assess visual performance and ocular aberrations in keratoconic patients using toric soft contact lenses (SCL), rigid-gas-permeable (RGP) contact lenses and spectacle lens correction.
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Sample SECO 2012 Multimedia Poster QRcode
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As mentioned a couple of days ago, SECO's Multimedia Poster program will offer QRcodes on-screen for all 100 posters, allowing you to "take" posters with you as you head off to your next class, booth, or dinner reservation. Here's a sample if you want to test it. Walt
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The broad reach of the wellbeing debate: Emotional wellbeing and vision loss
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What is meant by the term ‘wellbeing’? Much has been written on the relationship between chronic illness and mental health outcomes, particularly in terms of ‘happiness’, and the reciprocal relationship between physical and emotional health. Visual impairment research into wellbeing has tended to focus specifically on the concept of emotional wellbeing, and how functional disability may impact negatively on mental health.
http://bit.ly/AlUrQK
Vision improves modestly in patients after human embryonic stem cell transplants
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Source: ucla .edu
Researchers at UCLA's Jules Stein Eye Institute and colleagues who successfully transplanted specialized retinal cells derived from human embryonic stem cells into the eyes of two legally blind patients report that the transplants appear safe and that both patients have experienced modest improvement in their vision.
http://bit.ly/zPRV7W
Flygrip case secures your phone for one-handed usage
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Source: ubergizmo .com
So you’re walking with your iPhone in one hand, and a Starbucks latte in the other, and granted it is possible to use the iPhone in one hand, it could prove to be “fatal” since one hand tends to offer less support compared to two, and we all know that heart wrenching feeling when your brand new gadget slips out of your hand and onto the hard pavement. Looking to solve that problem, Flygrip has revealed a new case (also dubbed the Flygrip) that will make one handed usage of your phone a less risky process.
http://bit.ly/AuBJ1I
Corneal and conjunctival sensory function: the impact on ocular surface sensitivity of change from low to high oxygen transmissibility contact lenses.
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Source: iovs .org
Purpose Deprivation of oxygen to the ocular surface during contact lens wear has been implicated in the alteration of sensory function. This study investigates whether increasing oxygen availability through discontinuation of contact lens wear or transfer into highly oxygen transmissible (high Dk/t) lenses leads to a change in corneal or conjunctival sensitivity.
http://bit.ly/xD1zZN
Visual hallucinations in the differential diagnosis of parkinsonism
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Source: bmj .com
Visual hallucinations (VH) occur commonly in Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) but are reported much less frequently in other neurodegenerative causes of parkinsonism, such as progressive supranuclear palsy, multiple system atrophy and corticobasal degeneration syndrome.
http://bit.ly/Ag1A2v
Effects of acute alcohol consumption on the perception of eye gaze direction
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Source: sagepub .com
Alcohol consumption is associated with increases in aggressive behaviour, but the mechanisms underlying this relationship are poorly understood. One mechanism by which alcohol consumption may influence behaviour is via alterations in the processing of social cues such as gaze.
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Lifestyle modification, nutritional and vitamins supplements for age-related macular degeneration
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on Friday, 27 January 2012
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Purpose: To provide a systematic review of the published studies pertaining to the lifestyle modification, dietary, nutritional and vitamins supplements for preventing occurrence or halting deterioration of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
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VSP Survey Finds Optometry Students Face Financing Hurdles When Pursuing Goal of Private Practice
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Source: visionmonday .com
In a newly released study of career patterns among new optometry school graduates, VSP Vision Care surveyed optometry students during their third year in school along with their first year in practice, and discovered that 72 percent of respondents during their third year in school preferred to start their careers through private practice ownership, but only 15 percent of respondents became an independent eyecare professional practice owner in their first year of practice.
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The Village Idiot: Do these glasses make my gut look big?
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Source: richmond-dailynews .com
There’s nothing like a visit to the optometrist to make you feel old.
I’m already wearing trifocals – for distance on top, computer in the middle and reading on the bottom. I was afraid I would soon need quadrifocals: distance, computer, texting and reading. But it turns out my long-distance vision is actually improving.
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VA names new blind rehab center in honor of fallen Army OD
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Source: newsfromaoa .org
After hundreds of AOA doctors and students launched a nationwide grassroots campaign aimed at honoring the service and sacrifice of a respected colleague and fallen American hero, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) officially dedicated the Major Charles Robert Soltes, Jr., O.D. VA Blind Rehabilitation Facility Jan. 25 on the campus of the VA Long Beach Healthcare System in Long Beach, Calif.
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Doctors Make Mistakes: Can We Talk About That?
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Many years ago, much earlier in my career, an 18 year-old by the name of Stephanie was referred to me by a colleague for management of convergence insufficiency. She had previously seen an ophthalmologist who prescribed +1.00 reading glasses to help her with close work. My optometric colleague recognized that she had CI, and she experienced what we thought was a successful outcome at the time.
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Neb. OD’s new book offers constructive message for chil
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Iggie’s Telescope, a new children’s book written and illustrated by Kristopher T. Hubbard, O.D., follows the adventures of Iggie the Eyeball as he works diligently to buy his first telescope.
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Va. OD helps develop first self-focusing eyewear
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“We are bringing vision correction into the 21st century,” said Ron Blum, O.D., president and CEO of Roanoke, Va.-based PixelOptics, Inc. Dr. Blum believes a new breed of composite lens technology used in his new PixelOptics line of emPower! eyewear – the world’s first electronic focusing eyeglasses – will “revolutionize” presbyopic vision correction over the coming months and similarly advance other fields of vision care over the coming years.
http://bit.ly/yZHbJU
Inkling’s iPad version of Harrison’s Principles
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Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine is regarded as one of the premier textbooks for physicians through to medical students.
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Mobileye driver safety solution
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Source: coolest-gadgets .com
The recently concluded CES saw thousands of gadgets, gizmos and even services offered to the masses, and it is virtually impossible to cover all grounds, even if you have a staff count like Engadget. The Mobileye driver safety solution is one nifty gadget that was paraded on the CES showfloor, where this unique solution intends to help drivers avoid and mitigate collisions, while enhancing the overall driver experience.
http://bit.ly/z8BBvP
Time is now for retina exams to move from slit lamp to OCT biomicroscopy
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With the evolution of biomicroscopy and the ability of the optical coherence tomography platform to consistently and efficiently store, measure and compare useful images, retina specialists should begin considering shifting away from the slit lamp to OCT biomicroscopy, a speaker here said.
http://bit.ly/xMZExo
Daniel Kraft, MD on the Future of Medicine at TEDMED
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Medicine today is “very much siloed,” observes Daniel Kraft, MD in a TEDMED presentation. Typically, a hospital has separate departments for oncology, ophthalmology, hematology, urology, neurology, and so forth. This departmentalized structure inhibits dissemination of information across disciplines. In addition, medicine is somewhat insulated from the rapid clip of technological change seen in the consumer space.
http://bit.ly/zt4GGN
Contacts that do more than help you see?
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Source: connecttristates .com
Forty-million Americans wear contact lenses.
In the not so distant future, contacts may do a lot more than just help you see.
What if the lenses could look inside of you to diagnose, monitor and even treat disease? Sound far-fetched? Well, it may not be too far away.
http://bit.ly/xUjhjv
Vital role for optometrists in No Smoking Day campaign
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With smokers doubling their chance of some sight problems, optometrists and opticians are being encouraged to play an important role in one of the UK’s longest standing and most successful health campaigns.
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Vitamin D Could Help Combat The Effects Of Aging In Eyes
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Source: medicalnewstoday .com
Researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have found that vitamin D reduces the effects of ageing in mouse eyes and improves the vision of older mice significantly. The researchers hope that this might mean that vitamin D supplements could provide a simple and effective way to combat age-related eye diseases, such as macular degeneration (AMD), in people.
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Business Outlook of Independent ECPs Improves at Year End, Shows Jobson Research Barometer
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For the last month of 2011, the outlook of independent ECPs toward their overall business saw a significant improvement, according to the latest edition of Jobson Optical Research’s Optical Business Barometer (OBB). The Barometer rose 0.3 from November’s index of 3.5, to reach 3.8 in December; its highest reading since March 2011 when the rating was 3.9.
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Transitions Names Pech and Aspen Most Valuable Partner Labs of the Year
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Transitions Optical, Inc. has named the winners of the 2011 Transitions Partner Labs, Most Valuable Partner (MVP) Lab of the Year award. Aspen Optical of Mesa, Ariz., won in the small/medium lab division, and Pech Optical of Sioux City, Iowa, won for the large lab division. Both were honored during a ceremony at Essilor’s National Sales Meeting in Miami Beach, Fla., on Jan. 5.
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Sensics SmartGoggles - The VR headset with the works
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Source: gizmag .com
There certainly wasn't a shortage of smart eyewear at CES this year. Shortly after our encounter with Vuzix SMART Glasses we ran across these formidable looking SmartGoggles from Sensics. The Natalia Immersive SmartGoggles provide an ideal platform from which to deliver a powerful immersive gaming experience and as a result, they take up a considerable amount of space - "SmartHelmet" might be a more accurate description. But the bulkiness is quickly forgotten when you look at the hardware that's packed under the shell of this 360-degree 3D gaming and entertainment video rig.
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Prognostic factors for the clinical severity of keratoconjuncti
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Source: bmj .com
Aims
To determine whether prognostic immunological profiles predict the severity of keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS) in patients with Sjögren's syndrome (SS).
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Minor salivary glands and labial mucous membrane graft in the t
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Source: bmj .com
Objective
To evaluate minor salivary glands and labial mucous membrane graft in patients with severe symblepharon and dry eye secondary to Stevens–Johnson syndrome (SJS).
http://bit.ly/ycgLgc
5-Fluorouracil versus mitomycin C as adjuncts to conjunctival autograft in preventing pterygium recurrence
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Source: springerlink .com
To compare the efficacy of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) with mitomycin C (MMC) in preventing pterygium recurrence when used as an adjuvant following pterygium excision with conjunctival autograft. Low-dose MMC combined with conjunctival autograft is an effective treatment for preventing recurrence following pterygium excision, but safety, cost, and availability limit its use in developing countries. There is a paucity of data on the efficacy of 5-FU when used in Africa as an adjuvant to conjunctival autograft following pterygium excision.
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TASER electronic control devices and eye injuries
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Source: springerlink .com
Dear Editor
We are advisors to TASER International Inc. (TASER), and we thank Dr. Sayegh et al. for their presentation of the eye injury case associated with an incident involving a TASER electronic control device (ECD) [1]. The ECD has largely supplanted pepper spray and batons as it tends to reduce arrest-related injuries by about 2/3 and is now used over 800 times per day [2,3].
http://bit.ly/x4k7ZB
A High-Resolution 3D Ultrasonic System for Rapid Evaluation of the Anterior and Posterior Segment.
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Traditional ultrasound imaging systems for ophthalmology employ slow, mechanical scanning of a single-element ultrasound transducer. The goal was to demonstrate rapid examination of the anterior and posterior segment with a three-dimensional (3D) commercial ultrasound system incorporating high-resolution linear probe arrays.
http://1.usa.gov/w0JW2U
Confronting The Urgent Challenge Of Diabetes: An Overview
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Source: healthaffairs .org
The rising tide of diabetes has an unacceptable human and societal toll. Rates of all major forms of diabetes are increasing at enormous individual and societal cost: 8.3 percent of the US population is afflicted today, and financial costs reached $174 billion for 2007. A major cause of blindness, renal failure, amputation, and cardiovascular disease, diabetes also increases the risk of cancer and dementia and more than doubles individual health care costs.
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Peak Intraocular Pressure and Glaucomatous Progression in Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma
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Purpose: To evaluate the effect of 24-h peak intraocular pressure (IOP) on the progression of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and the 24 h time points that best predict peak pressure.
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Students given eye care software
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The University of KwaZulu-Natal’s optometry department has been bolstered with a software donation of R600 000 from Digital Optometry.
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Blind Woman's Sight Improves Thanks to Embryonic Stem Cells
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Source: ibtimes .com
The newly-discovered eye medications, human embryonic stem cells, have created striking changes in the vision of two legally blind women. After getting injections of the said cells, the two patients experienced some improvements after losing their sight due to a fatal eye disease.
http://bit.ly/A9fT7w
Practice offers free surgery to financially burdened
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This year’s Operation Eyesight will find the surgeons, physicians, anesthesiologists, and clinic professionals of Minnesota Eye Consultants donating their time and skills to perform eye surgery, at no cost, to patients from Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN, greater Minnesota, and Wisconsin on Feb. 4 and March 10.
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How Protein In Teardrops Annihilates Harmful Bacteria
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A disease-fighting protein in our teardrops has been tethered to a tiny transistor, enabling UC Irvine scientists to discover exactly how it destroys dangerous bacteria. The research could prove critical to long-term work aimed at diagnosing cancers and other illnesses in their very early stages.
http://bit.ly/AeYs9t
Researchers develop gene therapy that could correct a common form of blindness
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A new gene therapy method developed by University of Florida researchers has the potential to treat a common form of blindness that strikes both youngsters and adults. The technique works by replacing a malfunctioning gene in the eye with a normal working copy that supplies a protein necessary for light-sensitive cells in the eye to function. The findings are published today (Monday, Jan. 23) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences online.
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Optometrist Working to Cure Leading Cause of Blindness
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Source: scoop .co .nz
Tony Han, optometrist from Specsavers Mt Maunganui is about to start trials on a potential treatment for age-related macular degeneration. If the trails are successful, the new treatment could be a breakthrough in managing New Zealand's leading cause of blindness in the over 50's[1].
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