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04 Jun 2023

Glaucoma Care: Caregivers Role In Helping Patients Cope With The Condition

Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that can cause blindness and we bring you ways in which the family, primary caregiver and counsellors can adopt to provide better care to loved ones with this condition.

29 Jan 2023

Youtuber Mr Beast Helps 1000 Blind People to See First Time in Life | Watch

YouTuber Mr. Beast helps 1000 blind people to see first time. Mr Beast posts the video of some cured people on his youtube handle. He is the most followed individual youtuber in the world.

04 Jan 2023

World Braille Day: Know all about Louis Braille's birth anniversary

World Braille Day is an annual observance that takes place on January 4 Despite his blindness, Braille excelled in his studies and was a brilliant student In 1824, Braille developed his own system of reading and writing for the blind

23 May 2021

Taal Thok Ke (Special Edition) LIVE: No infection still threat of Black Fungus?

In this segment of Taal Thok Ke, we bring you a panel discussion on concurrent issues. The topic for discussion in this episode of 'Taal Thok Ke' - No infection still threat of Black Fungus?

22 May 2021

Taal Thok Ke (Special Edition): Can 'Black Fungus' spread through air?

In this segment of Taal Thok Ke, we bring you a panel discussion on concurrent issues. The topic for discussion in this episode of 'Taal Thok Ke' - Can 'Black Fungus' spread through air?

22 May 2021

What is the 'sugar connection' of black fungus?

How dangerous is black fungus to sugar patients and does controlled level of diabetes reduces its risk? Watch the video to know.

02 Jul 2020

New eye drops may prevent vision loss after retinal vein occlusion: Study

The study was published in Nature Communications. Retinal vein occlusion occurs when a major vein that drains blood from the retina is blocked, usually due to a blood clot. As a result, blood and other fluids leak into the retina, damaging specialized light-sensing neurons called photoreceptors.

Amitabh Bachchan

17 Jun 2019

Amitabh Bachchan launches eye care campaign to fight blindness

The actor, himself a proud wearer of glasses, hopes this will encourage others to wear glasses without any stigma.

03 Oct 2017

Gene editing method could prevent glaucoma

Researchers found that removing the mutated protein by disrupting the mutant myociln results in lowered intraocular pressure, which in turn prevents glaucomatous damage to the eye.

02 Sep 2017

Cataract behind 63% blindness cases in India: Experts

According to a group of ophthalmologists, who were speaking to the media at Rajendra Prasad Eye (RP) Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences at the AIIMS, India currently has the highest numbers of blind and visually impaired people.

16 May 2017

Treatment for age-related blindness a problem no more! Revolutionary new eye-drops developed

The drops use a cell-penetrating peptide (CPP) to deliver the drug to the relevant part of the eye within minutes.

23 Mar 2017

Brains of blind people 'rewire' to boost other senses

Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in the US used MRI multimodal brain imaging techniques to reveal these changes in a group of 12 subjects with early blindness and they compared the scans to a group of 16 normally sighted subjects.

20 Mar 2017

How smoking causes glaucoma, other eye diseases

Glaucoma is a condition that causes damage to eye’s optic nerve and gets worse over time.

15 Mar 2017

New nano-implant may help restore sight

The nanowires give the prosthesis higher resolution than anything achieved by other devices - closer to the dense spacing of photoreceptors in the human retina.

12 Mar 2017

Eyes of Zebra fish may help unveil cure for human blindness, say scientists!

In the study, when the scientists injected drugs that kept GABA concentrations in the retinas of newly blinded fish at a high level, they found it suppressed the regeneration process.

11 Mar 2017

Doctors claim India free from trachoma: All you need to know about eye infection causing blindness

The infection, which is caused by an obligate intracellular bacterium called Chlamydia trachomatis, is common in children till nine years of age.

11 Mar 2017

There is potential cure for blindness in humans – Read

The findings showed that the levels of GABA (gamma aminobutyric acid), a neurotransmitter, best known for its role of calming nervous activity -- drop when the unique self repair process kicks in.

17 Feb 2017

This 'special' surgery might prevent blindness - Read

Gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 can be delivered directly into the eye to treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD), an advance that may pave way for a new therapy for non-hereditary degenerative diseases.

23 Sep 2016

Eye health: 8 ways to improve your vision naturally!

. There are many things you can do to keep your eyes healthy and enjoy good eyesight.

10 Sep 2016

DNA: Analyzing the effect of the smart phone on your eyes

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