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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Chameleon effect
Glaucoma is an eye disease resulting in the loss of eyesight due to fluid accumulation inside the eyeball which in turn builds-up pressure over the optic nerve, eventually leading to blindness.
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Sugary eyes tell it all
SUSPECT diabetes? Get your eyes checked! A US company has developed a technique that uses eyes as a mirror for quickly and painlessly detecting diabetes, instead of the standard blood test for a
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Dangerous make up
A warning against indiscriminate selling and buying in a new fad: herbal drugs
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Smoke gets in your eyes and forms cataracts
The oxidising property of cigarette and chulha smoke is one of the factors being linked by researchers to the formation of eye cataract.
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Colours in sight
thanks to a British optician, even colour-blind people can now see red. Literally. David Harris, a uk -based medi cal expert, has developed lenses specially designed for
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Toxins in samples
<font class="UCASE"><b>phosphorous pentoxide:</b></font> Severe eye and skin injury and chemical burns to the respiratory track, if inhaled<br> <br><font class="UCASE"><b>aromatic alcohol (also known as phenol):</b></font> It's a poisonous chemical that is corrosive in nature and readily seeps through the skin and causes burns<br> <br><font class="UCASE">vinyl alcohol and magnesium hydroxide:</font> Cause eye irritation with nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea<br>
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Looking through the eyes
In a breakthrough in Alzheimer's disease research, American doctors have converted a simple eye test into a powerful diagnostic instrument for the disease (Science, Vol 266, No 5187). A research