There are various Vitamin E food sources and supplements that individuals consume to remain healthy. Food sources like asparagus, avocado, nuts, olives, Red Palm Oil, Seeds, Spinach and other green leafy vegetables, vegetable oils — corn, sunflower, soybean, cotton-seed and wheat germ are rich in Vitamin E.
There has been a comprehensive study by […]
Three young adults have got their vision restored with the help of a gene therapy at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “This is the first gene therapy trial for a nonlethal pediatric condition,” said Albert M. Maguire, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a physician at The […]
Scientists in the UK are developing computer software that will spot signs of glaucoma offering a potential to prevent many people from going blind. Most Glaucoma patients are unaware of the symptoms until a lot of damage has been done.
Glaucoma is a disease of the optic nerve that involves loss of retinal ganglion cells […]
Australian researchers have found that Age related Macular Degeneration (AMD), a degenerative eye disease increases the risk of death from a heart attack or stroke two fold.
AMD affects the centre of the retina (macula) at the back of the eye that is used for fine central vision tasks, such as reading and driving. […]
Now, blind children in Britain will be taught a revolutionary echo-location technique which mimics the way bats make their way in the dark. This is being done in an effort to assist blind and visually-impaired children in visualizing their surroundings.
This technique is being piloted in Glasgow and involves ten children aged 5 to 17, […]
K-NFB Reading Technology, a company that combines the search and development efforts of the National Federation of the Blind and Kurzeil Technologies has unveiled reading software for blind people as well as those with visual and learning disabilities. It has been paired wit the Nokia N82 handset, offering the smallest text-to-speech reading device till […]
For the first time in the world, tissue glue has been used to fix an intraocular lens in the eye of a four year old girl Anandhi. In her case, intraocular lenses could not be implanted, hence using glued IOL technology, her vision was restored.
This new surgical procedure was invented and performed by Prof. […]
Have you heard of contact lenses which are used for a purpose other than eyesight correction? A group of engineers at the University of Washington have developed contact lenses that can display information about all the incoming calls on a mobile phone. Confused about it? Well, read on!
It is known that an electronic circuit and […]
Scientists have been able to successfully restore the vision of blind cavefish who live in dark pools. This research surely brings a lot of hope for the millions of remain visually impaired all over the world.
Researchers in the United States conducted a study which found that mutations in different genes are responsible for eye […]
Buying your stock of contact lenses over the Internet may save consumers time. However, this could cause more problems in the long run, says a study whose research was conducted by Joshua Fogel, Ph.D, and Chaya Zidile of Brooklyn College.
The researchers found that individuals, who did not purchase their contact lenses from an eye […]
