Advances In Managing Paralytic Strabismus: A Look Toward The Future
Paralytic strabismus is a condition that affects the eye muscles, causing them to be unable to move correctly. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - January 11, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: William A. Haseltine, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation business pharma & standard Source Type: news
Specialized Approaches For Strabismus Treatment
Strabismus is a visual disorder that affects people globally and has an estimated prevalence of 1.93%, which means that about 2 in every 100 people have this condition. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - October 30, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: William A. Haseltine, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation business pharma & standard Source Type: news
Mother's agony as three-year-old daughter's squint turns out to be a deadly brain disorder that kills most kids before they turn five
Nellie (pictured), from Brighton, was diagnosed with metachromatic leukodystrophy - a rare genetic disease causing severe damage to the nervous system and organs. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
If AI becomes conscious, how will we know?
In 2021, Google engineer Blake Lemoine made headlines—and got himself fired—when he claimed that LaMDA, the chatbot he’d been testing, was sentient. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, especially so-called large language models such as LaMDA and ChatGPT, can certainly seem conscious. But they’re trained on vast amounts of text to imitate human responses. So how can we really know?
Now, a group of 19 computer scientists, neuroscientists, and philosophers has come up with an approach: not a single definitive test, but a lengthy checklist of attributes that, together, could suggest but not prove an AI is consc...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 22, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
How white-collar warriors gear up for the day
“T is a story of glory and gods, revenge and mercy, death and immortality. Squint hard enough and it is also a workplace saga. The epic kicks off with a big row between a pair of co-workers called Agamemnon and Achilles. The gods are the senior leadership team, descending from on high to cause…#agamemnon #achilles #greek #trojans #chaucertorambo #homeric #hephaestus #tube #hyperion #troy (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Senate GOP's quiet but mighty Trump skeptics
Squint hard, and you might just see the outlines of an anti-Donald Trump coalition forming in the Senate GOP. It started coming together well before the former president’s latest indictment, when seven Republican senators voted to convict after his second impeachment trial. Now as the party’s 2024…#trump #mikebraun #republicanparty #braun #toddyoung #dakotas #southdakota #johnthune #mikerounds #timscott (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Jim Boeheim ’s Syracuse Head Basketball Coaching Career Ends After 47 Years
There will be no familiar face, the one with the pained squint from behind wire-rimmed glasses, patrolling the sidelines of this month’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Syracuse, an almost automatic entrant each year when March Madness commences, and head coach Jim Boeheim, will be nowhere near…#ncaa #jimboeheim #orange #wakeforest #acctournament #syracuse #boeheim #adrianautry #boeheims #geraldford (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Why Rapid COVID-19 Test Results Are Getting More Confusing
After a recent COVID-19 exposure, Dr. Christina Astley tested positive on an at-home test—but just barely. The line signifying a positive result was so faint that Astley, an endocrinologist at Boston Children’s Hospital, took a picture and applied a camera filter to confirm it was there at all.
Further complicating matters, Astley later tested negative with a different manufacturer’s kit. Even for a physician who is “hyper-vigilant” about COVID-19, Astley says, the results were hard to interpret.
Experts say ambiguous results like these may be more common now—but not because rapid tests ...
Source: TIME: Health - January 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Why Kia ’s confusing new logo might actually be good for business
Take a drive on an American highway and look at the logos around you. Among the Toyota emblems and Subaru star clusters, you might spot another logo that, if you squint, looks kind of like the letters “KN.” It actually spells “Kia,” but has led to thousands of people Googling “KN car” every month.…#subaru #kncar #samsung #yellowroadwaycorp #trademarkoffice #jamesibowie #unitedstatespatent #miami #fastcompany #florida (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Binocular visual field in adults with horizontal strabismus and driving requirements - Alfaqawi F, Young J, Kaye SB.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the horizontal extent of the binocular visual field (BVF) in subjects with horizontal strabismus and whether the BVF falls below the driving standard. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: Adults with congenital esotropia and infantile exot... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 5, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
Baby girl receives shock cancer diagnosis months after family spot peculiar squint
DESPITE its apparent innocuousness, when the parents of nine-month-old Orla Kearney noticed that she had started to squint they decided to get it checked out. What they found turned both Orla's and their lives upside down. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - August 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What is Ondine ’ s Curse?
Discussion
Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) is an autosomal dominant with variable inheritance genetic disease caused by mutation in the Paired Like Homeobox B2 (PHOX2B) gene on chromosome 4. There are two other genes which may also cause CCHS. CCHS affects the chemoreceptor afferent ventilation pathways and is a neural crest migration problem of the autonomic nervous system. The incidence is unknown but a prevalence of 1 in 200,000 live births has been reported. Obviously it is a rarer phenomenon because of the general lethality of the syndrome.
Patients usually present at birth or soon afterwards, but o...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - August 15, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
This Is the Phase of the Pandemic Where Life Returns To Normal
At the supermarket, work, schools, restaurants, sports events, and airports we are witnessing a remarkable change. Masks are rarely seen. People are hugging, crowding, traveling. The latest Google COVID Community Mobility Report shows that most forms of activity have returned to near normal relative to the pre-pandemic baseline. But some people are understandably confused and conflicted. Mainstream media and many “experts“ continue to admonish us to avoid exposure. Are we indeed still in the treacherous pandemic phase? Are the throngs being irresponsible? Or are we witnessing a crowd-sourced, rational resetting...
Source: TIME: Health - August 3, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Steven Phillips Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Sharing Mayo Clinic: Seeing straight thanks to surgery for crossed eyes
Sight is the most dominant sense. It affects people's ability to perceive and move through the world, but it also affects how people are perceived by others. Eye contact during a conversation shows attentiveness, respect, confidence and understanding. Each person has a different comfort level with sustained eye contact, but this part of nonverbal communication may be difficult for people who have crossed eyes, or strabismus, because one or both eyes point in a different… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - March 13, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Moderate Associations ID ’ d for Strabismus, Mental Health Disorders
Moderate associations seen with anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depressive disorder, but not substance use disorder (Source: The Doctors Lounge - Psychiatry)
Source: The Doctors Lounge - Psychiatry - March 11, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Family Medicine, Ophthalmology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Journal, Source Type: news
