Tag: blindness
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Millions of people with diabetes at risk of blindness due to not speaking up soon enough
A quarter of people with diabetes may be needlessly putting themselves at risk of blindness due to diabetic retinopathy (DR) because they are not discussing eye complications with their doctor […]
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Breakthrough could help discover a cure for Alzheimer’s
The eyes might be the window to the the brain, not the soul as scientists discover that eye tests could soon check for warning signs of dementia… years before symptoms […]
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Eating oily fish protects vision
Eating oily fish such as salmon, mackerel or kippers twice a week could protect the sight of middle aged and elderly diabetics. A diet rich in Omega-3 fatty acids decreases […]
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A remarkable man’s diaries are turned into an enlightening, but rather less remarkable, documentary
Joyce Glasser reviews Notes on Blindness (July 1, 2016) The late theologian John Hall suffered from degenerative eye failure all his life and went completely blind in 1983 at the […]