Ophthalmology

Melbourne, September 28:Truly unbelievable, inexplicable and baffling is the case of the young Australian woman, Natalie Adler, whose eyes remain open for only four days a week, for rest of the three days she suffers blindness.

UK, September 26:Individuals who use computers for significantly longer durations are more likely to have an impaired vision, UK’s leading ophthalmologist Johnny Moore has warned.

Terrific news for hundreds of thousands of people suffering from blindness! On Monday, US researchers announced that latest gene therapy trial, conducted on three young patients suffering from a rare form of blindness, proved successful after they reported better vision.

For long, the baggy lower eye lid, which came with aging, remained a mystery, as far the reasons behind it were concerned; but not anymore. Research shows that here is one more thing you can blame on your fatty cells, which expand with age to give that look to your eyes.

In a novel discovery scientists have come across mutations in genesdefine responsible for causing CRD in dogs. CRD is a rare eye disease in dogs as well as humans, and the discovery has opened new vistas of possible therapies in case the mutation can be linked to Human CRD too, of which the scientists are quite hopeful.

A latest research found that an Indian herb, known as ‘Frankincense Salai’ or ‘Boswellia serrata’ can effectively treat osteoarthritis, which is one of the most common forms of arthritis.

Scientists have developed a new test which could prevent the most common form of blindness in the elderly, Age-related Macular Degeneration. The new test identifies people who are genetically predisposed to AMD, paving the way for early treatment that can prevent blindness.

Education ministry of China has requested all the students of the country to adopt eye exercises twice a day to beat myopiadefine, which lately has attained epidemical situation in all its provinces.

London -- An expert at Oregon Health and Science University has identified an area of the brain tapped by people blinded early in life to develop better hearing than individuals with their visions intact.

Alexander Stevens says that blind people co-opt the medial occipital-part of the visual system that plays a crucial role in registering visual signals by setting the threshold at which they are noticed by the brain-to help detect sounds.

In a study, the researcher played a series of sounds to blind subjects, each of which was preceded by a cue. He scanned their brains as they heard the sounds.