Smoking 'damages eyes as well as lungs'
Millions of people in the UK are putting their sight at risk by continuing to smoke, warn specialists. Despite the clear connection, only one in five people recognise that smoking can lead to blindness,
Eye Diseases
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Watch those flies
Those pesky flies that park themselves on food and cause diarrhoea have been blamed for causing blindness. A new study in Africa suggests that flies may be respon sible for spreading trachoma, the
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Babies in the dark
Leaving a light on in a sleeping baby s room may actually be harmful
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BURKINA FASO
River blindness, a disease that has affected thousands in west Africa, is gradually coming under control. Before 1974, onchocercal infection or river blindness was affecting 60 per cent of the
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Electric eyes
Transmitting images directly to the retina may one day help the blind see
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Better looking
Self-focusing spectacles are on the horizon, doing away with the need for bifocal or progressive lenses. Universal Ventures of the Cayman Islands, USA, is developing variable focus glasses that
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Show the way, ALF
People with poor eyesight or severe memory problems could soon be a lot more streetwise, thanks to the Auditory location Finder (ALF) - a wonderful invention being devel-oped by a team at the
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Hunt on for cataract gene
scientists at the Centre for Genetic Disorders have claimed to locate a new gene responsible for congenital eye cataract. The centre is being run by the Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar,
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Aye for an eye
Transplanting light sensitive cells of aborted human foetuses into retinas of blind adults can enable them to see again
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Blinded by smoke
Two independent Boston-based research teams have linked cigarette smoking to age related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness among older people. People who smoked 25 cigarettes
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Lenses favourite
Contact lenses have undergone radical changes since their first trials on humans in 1888. There are now so many different types to choose from including fluoroperm, bifocal, disposable, coloured