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Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that can cause blindness and we bring you ways in which the family, primary caregiver and counsellors can adopt to provide better care to loved ones with this condition.
YouTuber Mr. Beast helps 1000 blind people to see first time.
Mr Beast posts the video of some cured people on his youtube handle.
He is the most followed individual youtuber in the world.
World Braille Day is an annual observance that takes place on January 4
Despite his blindness, Braille excelled in his studies and was a brilliant student
In 1824, Braille developed his own system of reading and writing for the blind
In this segment of Taal Thok Ke, we bring you a panel discussion on concurrent issues. The topic for discussion in this episode of 'Taal Thok Ke' - No infection still threat of Black Fungus?
In this segment of Taal Thok Ke, we bring you a panel discussion on concurrent issues. The topic for discussion in this episode of 'Taal Thok Ke' - Can 'Black Fungus' spread through air?
How dangerous is black fungus to sugar patients and does controlled level of diabetes reduces its risk? Watch the video to know.
The study was published in Nature Communications. Retinal vein occlusion occurs when a major vein that drains blood from the retina is blocked, usually due to a blood clot. As a result, blood and other fluids leak into the retina, damaging specialized light-sensing neurons called photoreceptors.
The actor, himself a proud wearer of glasses, hopes this will encourage others to wear glasses without any stigma.
Researchers found that removing the mutated protein by disrupting the mutant myociln results in lowered intraocular pressure, which in turn prevents glaucomatous damage to the eye.
According to a group of ophthalmologists, who were speaking to the media at Rajendra Prasad Eye (RP) Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences at the AIIMS, India currently has the highest numbers of blind and visually impaired people.
The drops use a cell-penetrating peptide (CPP) to deliver the drug to the relevant part of the eye within minutes.
Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in the US used MRI multimodal brain imaging techniques to reveal these changes in a group of 12 subjects with early blindness and they compared the scans to a group of 16 normally sighted subjects.
Glaucoma is a condition that causes damage to eye’s optic nerve and gets worse over time.
The nanowires give the prosthesis higher resolution than anything achieved by other devices - closer to the dense spacing of photoreceptors in the human retina.
In the study, when the scientists injected drugs that kept GABA concentrations in the retinas of newly blinded fish at a high level, they found it suppressed the regeneration process.
The infection, which is caused by an obligate intracellular bacterium called Chlamydia trachomatis, is common in children till nine years of age.
The findings showed that the levels of GABA (gamma aminobutyric acid), a neurotransmitter, best known for its role of calming nervous activity -- drop when the unique self repair process kicks in.
Gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 can be delivered directly into the eye to treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD), an advance that may pave way for a new therapy for non-hereditary degenerative diseases.
. There are many things you can do to keep your eyes healthy and enjoy good eyesight.
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