Eye Care News – Weekly Newsletter for February 7-14, 2011
Drugs to treat age-related blindness
WASHINGTON - Scientists have come up with new ways to treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD) — the most prevalent type of blindness among the elderly — after figuring out one of its primary causes.
Researchers at the University of Kentucky, US, compared eyes donated by deceased AMD patients with those of healthy individuals. The ... Read more >>>.
Eye Care News – Weekly Newsletter for January 1-3, 2011
Worm sticks between woman's cornea and iris in Bihar
NALANDA - In an unusual case a worm got stuck between a woman’s cornea and the iris of her right eye in Bihar’s Nalanda District.adha Devi, a 20 year-old patient, got operated on Saturday at nearby charitable hospital in the region and is out of danger now.
She felt irritation in her right eye ten days ... Read more >>>.
Eye Care News – Weekly Newsletter for December 20-27, 2010
Abu Bakar Bashir Undergone Cataract Surgery
NEW YORK (GaeaTimes.com) — Abu Bakar Bashir, Indonesia’s best-known radical cleric has undergone cataract surgery as he awaits trial on terrorism charges.
Lawyer Achmad Michdan says the 72-year-old Bashir started complaining about deteriorating vision in his left eye soon after his arrest in August. He says Bashir, who has been jailed since his arrest, was .... Source : Gaea News Network.
Eye Care News – Weekly Newsletter for December 13-20, 2010
Revolutionary Lasik Technique Provides Super-Vision
NEW YORK (GaeaTimes.com) — A revolutionary new technique of Lasik surgery promises to provide super-vision to patients affected with short-sightedness.
The revolutionary new technique at the Z-LASIK clinic in London boasts a 100pc success rate at correcting short sightedness to 20/20 “normal” levels.
But in 40pc of cases, patients are said to go home with 20/12 .... Source article on Gaea Times at : Revolutionary Lasik Technique Provides Super-Vision.
Eye Care News – Weekly Newsletter for December 6-13, 2010
Surgeon for Lasik Surgery Arrested for showing Negligence
NEW YORK (GaeaTimes.com) — This is the first time in the history of lasik surgery that a lasik surgeon is arrested due to showing negligence during surgery.
Tomoo Mizoguchi, 49, of Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture, was arrested on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in injury. This is the first time a surgeon who performs the Lasik .... Source : Surgeon for Lasik Surgery Arrested for showing Negligence.
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