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POSTED August 23, 2011 - 15:55 | POSTED BY Neharika Sabharwal

Careless use of contact lenses can cause blindness

Ironical as it may sound, the very contact lens you rely upon to help you see better could end up taking away your vision!

According to optometrists, harmless habits, such as sleeping with contact lenses or rinsing the case in tap water can damage the wearers' eyes.

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POSTED June 7, 2011 - 15:19 | POSTED BY Neelam Goswami

'Smart' bandage that 'shows healing' in the offing

Australian researchers claim to have developed a ‘smart’ bandage that they boast reveals the state of the wound beneath it by changing its color. According to its inventors, the smart bandage changes from red to green to blue in the presence of heat generated by infections or inflammation.

An international team, led by Louise van der Werff of Monash University in Melbourne, is developing the color-changing bandage that they claim could help treatment of chronic wounds by changing color to reveal the progress of wound healing.

A color-changing smart bandage

POSTED January 13, 2011 - 12:07 | POSTED BY neha gupta

Antibiotics helpful for ear infections in young kids--study

Routine antibiotic use is helpful for treating young children suffering from acute ear infections, according to two new independent trials.

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Taking the medicines is found to be only modestly effective, lowering the length of symptoms only slightly, in kids under the age of 2.

However, it is beneficial in preventing the relapse and progression of the disease.

Otitis media, an acute ear infection, is the most commonly occurring ear disease in children for which antibiotics are prescribed.

"The study underscores the need to restrict antibiotic treatment to those with certain infection," said Dr. Alejandro Hoberman, a pediatrician at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and lead author of one of the studies.

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