deafness and myopia syndrome
http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/deafness-and-myopia-syndrome (Source: NLM General Announcements)
Source: NLM General Announcements - November 10, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Science is vital if Britain is to prosper – make sure your MP knows that
From Newton to Higgs, British science has helped shaped the world. Cutting its funding is not just shortsighted, it’s illogicalLast week, I stood 100 metres directly above a spot colder than the deepest realms of the cosmos. I was chatting to two British physicists, Kay Graham and Jaime Norman, deployed from their bases at the universities of Birmingham and Liverpool to the Large Hadron Collider, straddling the Swiss-French border. There they are studying the strong nuclear force, one of the four fundamental forces in the universe. Below our feet, protons were circumnavigating the 27km ring, and smashing into one another...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 1, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Adam Rutherford Tags: Science Research funding Higher education Research and development Technology Cancer Medical research Energy research Physics Source Type: news
How Birth Order Impacts Your Eyesight
Firstborn children may have a slightly higher risk of becoming nearsighted later in life, compared with later-born siblings, new research suggests. In the study, researchers looked at birth order and nearsightedness in about 89,000 people, ages 40 to 69. The investigators found that firstborns were 10 percent more likely to be nearsighted than were later-born participants. Firstborn individuals were also 20 percent more likely to be severely nearsighted than later-born individuals, the investigators found. However, when the researchers adjusted their results for education levels, such as the highest educational&#...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 12, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Here’s Why Oldest Children Are More Likely to Be Nearsighted
If you’re an oldest child, stereotypes suggest you’re probably organized, an overachiever, perhaps a tad bossy.
And now, science suggests you’re probably also more nearsighted than your younger siblings, too.
A study published Thursday in JAMA Ophthalmology used data from the British Biobank longitudinal survey to get information from nearly 90,000 adults between the ages of 40 and 69. They combined demographic data with behavioral information—one question asked how much time people spent outdoors, for instance—along with a detailed educational history and their ophthalmological past.
Jeremy G...
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - October 8, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: tanyabasutime Tags: Uncategorized Britain Education investment myopia nearsightedness ophthalmology Parenting public health Research United Kingdom Source Type: news
First-borns likely to be short-sighted because parents make them study harder
But a new study by UK researchers suggests the weight of parental expectation on first-borns is harming eyesight (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - October 8, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: cure eyesight short-sightedness first-borns myopia only children symptoms middle children Source Type: news
Medical News Today: Why are first-born children more likely to be nearsighted?
Though research suggests a first-born child has bragging rights for better education, the flip side may be increased chances of myopia, according to a new study. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 8, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Eye Health / Blindness Source Type: news
Kids Decrease Risk of Myopia With More Time Outside (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Organized outdoor activities show results in randomized trial (Source: MedPage Today Ophthalmology)
Source: MedPage Today Ophthalmology - September 16, 2015 Category: Opthalmology Source Type: news
Spending More Time Outside May Slow Kids’ Myopia ProgressionSpending More Time Outside May Slow Kids’ Myopia Progression
Rates of myopia incidence and progression were reduced in Chinese schoolchildren randomly assigned to 40 minutes of compulsory outdoor play during school hours. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Pediatrics Headlines)
Source: Medscape Pediatrics Headlines - September 16, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Tags: Ophthalmology News Source Type: news
Children less likely to need glasses if they get more sunlight
Stephen FellerGUANGZHOU, China, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- As little as 40 minutes a day playing in the sun can help hold off the development of myopia, or nearsightedness, in children, according to a large study. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - September 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Scientists Fear Sex Robots Could Be Bad For Society
We’ve joked about robots being the future of sex, but for these two researchers, it's no laughing matter. Kathleen Richardson and Erik Billing on Tuesday launched the Campaign Against Sex Robots, an effort to draw attention to what they see as the potential societal harm of human-like robots created for the purpose of having sex with humans. While these products are not yet widely available, they “seem to be a growing focus in the robotics industry,” Richardson, an ethics of robotics research fellow at England’s De Montfort University, told the BBC. Billing, a lecturer at the Uni...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - September 15, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Additional time spent outdoors by children results in decreased rate of nearsightedness
The addition of a daily outdoor activity class at school for three years for children in Guangzhou, China, resulted in a reduction in the rate of myopia (nearsightedness, the ability to see close objects more clearly than distant objects), according to a new study. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - September 15, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Reading could be bad for your child's eyesight and 'trigger short-sightedness'
Scientists at Columbia University found those with a certain variant of the gene - called APLP2 - were five times more likely to develop myopia in their teens if they'd read an hour or more a day as a child. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 7, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Refugees require ‘urgent health response’
Migrants do not increase disease risk, says WHORelated items from OnMedicaRefugees denied cancer care Health risks of migrants to UK can last for years after arrivalGPs concerned at NHS charges for migrants Charges to overseas visitorsCharging migrants to access health services is ‘shortsighted’ (Source: OnMedica Latest News)
Source: OnMedica Latest News - September 4, 2015 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Researchers Have Pinpointed A Genetic Variant That Causes Nearsightedness
Vision researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have discovered a gene that increases the risk for myopia in people who spending a lot of time in childhood reading or doing other close visual work. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - September 1, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Emily Mullin Source Type: news
Gene leads to nearsightedness when kids read
Vision researchers have discovered a gene that causes myopia, but only in people who spend a lot of time in childhood reading or doing other 'nearwork.' (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - August 31, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
