Eye health: The five warning signs of glaucoma - ‘common cause of irreversible blindness'
DUBBED as a "silent killer of vision", glaucoma describes a common eye condition in which the optic nerve that connects your eye to your brain becomes damaged. An expert explains five warning signs of the eye condition as well as who's most at risk. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - March 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How COVID Has Affected the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 14, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Global Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Source Type: news
What It ’s Like to Be ‘Mind Blind’
When you close your eyes, what do you see? For me, it’s always been a black screen, sometimes with the static of a crackling TV. My dreams are tangles of thoughts, but when I try to remember them, I can’t actually see anything. I don’t need to pinch myself to see if I’m dreaming, because my dreams never resemble reality. I have a condition called aphantasia, mind blindness. I can see clearly with my eyes but not in my mind.
When I think of a memory, I can conceptually understand and answer questions about it, but cannot project it into my mind or imagine myself in it. I hold all the projector slide...
Source: TIME: Health - March 8, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Nayantara Dutta Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
We Must Carry on Paul Farmer ’s Work on Social Determinants of Health
Sub Saharan Africa has a population of 1.14 billion, yet just 24% of the population has access to safe drinking water. Credit: Stella Paul/IPSBy Ifeanyi NsoforABUJA, Mar 2 2022 (IPS) Paul Farmer, the legendary global health equity warrior, recently died in his sleep from heart-related complications at the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Butaro, Rwanda, the university he co-founded.
So many tributes have been written to Paul Farmer, and he deserves all the accolades bestowed on him posthumously. My tribute to Farmer is to amplify his teachings on the social determinants of health. It is crucial for health wor...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 2, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ifeanyi Nsofor Tags: Africa Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs Source Type: news
Commentary: Open globe injury: the Indian perspective - Moharana B, Gupta R, Sharma B.
Ocular trauma is a major cause of uniocular blindness in India, with incidence rates ranging from 4.5% to 7.5%.[12] It has significant financial implications and severely affects the physical and psychological well-being of the patient. Occupational eye in... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 2, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Commentary Source Type: news
Katie Piper health: The star's 'emergency procedure' after being rushed to A&E
KATIE PIPER is an English television presenter, writer and activist. In 2008 Piper's world was turned upside down when she was a victim of an acid attack by her ex-boyfriend. The attack caused catastrophic damage to her face and blindness in one of her eyes. Since her harrowing ordeal, Piper has increased awareness about burn victims and is now a regular panelist on Loose Women, but to this day her injuries are still causing her trouble. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - February 26, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Eye health: Three lifestyle factors worsening your eyesight – what to avoid
EYE health is integral for everyone. What are certain lifestyle factors one could be doing unwittingly increasing the risk of vision loss or even blindness? (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - February 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Prevalence of pediatric ocular trauma in northern Iran; an epidemiological cross-sectional study - Ahmadi H, Alizadeh Z, Karkhah S, Ghazanfari MJ.
The objective of this study was to assess the ocular traum... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 16, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
WHO validates the elimination of trachoma as a public health problem in Saudi Arabia
15 February 2022 On 26 January 2022, the World Health Organization validated Saudi Arabia as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, making it the fourth country in WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region to achieve this milestone. Trachoma is a neglected tropical eye disease. Children acquire the infection at a young age. Inflammation can then lead to progressive scarring of the eye lid, with long-term consequences years or even decades later that can lead to blindness.
Saudi Arabia’s success in eliminating trachoma is largely attributed to the efforts of the Ministry of Health following the integration of ...
Source: WHO EMRO News - February 15, 2022 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news
New two-year data for Roche ’s Vabysmo and Susvimo reinforce potential to maintain vision with fewer treatments for people with two leading causes of vision loss
This study will evaluate the efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetics of the port delivery system with ranibizumab in participants with diabetic macular edema compared with intravitreal ranibizumab (Pagoda) [Internet; cited January 2022]. Available from:https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04108156.[14] ClinicalTrials.gov. A multicenter, randomized study in participants with diabetic retinopathy without center-involved diabetic macular edema to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetics of ranibizumab delivered via the port delivery system relative to the comparator arm (PAVILION) [Internet; cited January 2022]. A...
Source: Roche Investor Update - February 11, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
New two-year data for Roche ’s Vabysmo and Susvimo reinforce potential to maintain vision with fewer treatments for people with two leading causes of vision loss
This study will evaluate the efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetics of the port delivery system with ranibizumab in participants with diabetic macular edema compared with intravitreal ranibizumab (Pagoda) [Internet; cited January 2022]. Available from:https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04108156.[14] ClinicalTrials.gov. A multicenter, randomized study in participants with diabetic retinopathy without center-involved diabetic macular edema to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetics of ranibizumab delivered via the port delivery system relative to the comparator arm (PAVILION) [Internet; cited January 2022]. A...
Source: Roche Media News - February 11, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Former faculty member gives UCLA $10 million to advance ocular genetics research
UCLA has received a $10 million commitment from Dr. Bronwyn Bateman to establish a center for ocular genetics center at the UCLA Stein Eye Institute. The gift will support research projects as well as the center ’s startup costs and greatest needs moving forward.Bateman is a former professor of ophthalmology and pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.“As a long-standing partner of Stein Eye, Bronwyn has helped advance many of our vision programs,” said Dr. Bartly Mondino, UCLA’s Bradley R. Straatsma, M.D. Professor of Ophthalmology and director of the Stein Eye Institute. “We are grateful for t...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - February 7, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Visual outcomes and prognostic factors for pediatric open globe injuries - Bruce CN, Beal CJ, Zou B.
OBJECTIVES: Open globe injuries (OGIs) in children can be visually devastating traumas and are a common cause of unilateral blindness in children. Three commonly used ocular trauma scores (Ocular Trauma Score [OTS], Pediatric Penetrating Ocular Trauma Scor... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 4, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
[Ad hoc announcement pursuant to Art. 53 LR] Roche reports good results in 2021
Basel, 3 February 2022Group sales increase 9%1 at constant exchange rates (CER); 8% in Swiss francsPharmaceuticals Divisionsales increase 3%; continued strong demand for newly launched medicines more than offsets impact of biosimilarsDiagnostics Divisionsales grow 29%; strong momentum in base business and continued high demand for COVID-19 testsMajor approvals for medicinessince the last quarter: United States: Susvimo and Vabysmo (age-related blindness)Europe: Gavreto (specific type of advanced lung cancer); Actemra/RoActemra (severe COVID-19); Ronapreve (non-hospitalised COVID-19 patients and prophylaxis)Major appro...
Source: Roche Investor Update - February 3, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
[Ad hoc announcement pursuant to Art. 53 LR] Roche reports good results in 2021
Basel, 3 February 2022Group sales increase 9%1 at constant exchange rates (CER); 8% in Swiss francsPharmaceuticals Divisionsales increase 3%; continued strong demand for newly launched medicines more than offsets impact of biosimilarsDiagnostics Divisionsales grow 29%; strong momentum in base business and continued high demand for COVID-19 testsMajor approvals for medicinessince the last quarter:United States: Susvimo and Vabysmo (age-related blindness)Europe: Gavreto (specific type of advanced lung cancer); Actemra/RoActemra (severe COVID-19); Ronapreve (non-hospitalised COVID-19 patients and prophylaxis)Major approvals f...
Source: Roche Media News - February 3, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
