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Change in weather conditions has always played a big role in affecting the health of people across the globe. Exfoliation syndrome (ES) is an eye condition where whitish material collects over the lens and slowly removes pigment from the iris on movement. As impurities accumulate over microscopic drainage outlets, fluids in the eye get clogged [...]
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Kin marriage is a marriage between two cousins. It may lead to some genetic health problems in such a system. Glaucoma or ‘blue blindness’ has emerged as the leading cause of preventable blindness in the state. Scores of children, who have successfully overcome the problem of glaucoma through timely surgical intervention, and their parents gathered [...]
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The hormone insulin is responsible for taking sugar and converting it into glucose in the blood. A normal cycle takes place when cells in the body absorb glucose and convert it into energy. If excess glucose is retained in the blood, the medical condition of diabetes occurs. In other words points out online Canada pharmacy, [...]
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A new single-use electronic contact lens to monitor eye pressure is being hailed as a “significant development in the treatment of glaucoma” by the first British ophthalmic surgeon to use the device, Dr. Bobby Qureshi. The soft silicon contact lens, named the Triggerfish Sensor, contains a tiny microprocessor which uses an electronic circuit to monitor [...]
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A California scientist who has spent the last ten years working on an experimental laser procedure to turn brown eyes blue is now testing the procedure on humans. Dr. Gregg Homer uses a specially tuned laser to destroy the natural brown pigment melanin in the iris, the colored part of the eye. The whole procedure [...]
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A new glaucoma medication with a different mechanism of action than current ophthalmic medications is entering clinical trials. The new glaucoma drug, still known as OPA6566, is an adenosine A2a receptor agonist. It works by activating the adenosine A2a receptor to stimulate fluid drainage from the eye through the trabecular meshwork (a spongy tissue near [...]
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