Serious Readers Blog
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New Eye Chart to Detect Macular Degeneration
Monday 27 June 2016An international team combining scientists from Moorfields Eye Hospital, Ulster University and University College London has produced an Eye Chart which detects the early onset of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD).
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New Eye Chart to Detect Macular Degeneration
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Going bananas for eye health….
Thursday 12 May 2016It is estimated that up to half a million children in Africa and South East Asia suffer permanent blindness each year due to vitamin A deficiency.
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Going bananas for eye health….
12 May 2016 -
Got the blues too bad to sleep?
Tuesday 10 May 2016It has long been known that our circadian rhythms are shaped by natural light, and that the wrong type of artificial light can have a detrimental effect on our waking and sleeping patterns.
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Got the blues too bad to sleep?
10 May 2016 -
Radical new approach to treatment of Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
Monday 09 May 2016It is widely believed that Wet AMD is triggered by oxygen deprivation, but breaking research suggests that dysfunctional energy metabolism in the eye is the cause.
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Radical new approach to treatment of Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
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Researchers predict 50% worldwide myopia by 2050
Thursday 07 April 2016If current trends continue, half the world’s population will be myopic by 2050. Such is the stark warning recently issued by researchers in the prestigious journal Ophthalmology.
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Researchers predict 50% worldwide myopia by 2050
7 Apr 2016 -
The death of the traffic light?
Friday 01 April 2016Had enough of sitting at lights that seem to have been programmed by a sadist? It would seem one group of boffins are prepared to wait no longer…
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The death of the traffic light?
1 Apr 2016 -
‘Overstretched NHS' threatens UK eye health
Thursday 31 March 2016In a chilling warning for an ageing society, an eminent Ophthalmologist claims hundreds in the UK already suffer irreversible sight loss every year due to insufficient NHS resources.
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‘Overstretched NHS' threatens UK eye health
31 Mar 2016 -
Stem cell first for cataracts
Wednesday 30 March 2016It is estimated that over 50% of cases of blindness worldwide can be attributed to cataracts. For the first time, stem cell therapy has been successfully used to correct the condition.
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Stem cell first for cataracts
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Bionic eye trial gives new hope
Wednesday 24 February 2016A team of specialists at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford are trialling a bionic eye implant in six patients with little or no sight.
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Bionic eye trial gives new hope
24 Feb 2016 -
It’ll be all white on the night…or will it?
Wednesday 17 February 2016The first multi-disciplinary research of its kind has shown that night-time pedestrians feel safer in streets illuminated with white light than they do when lit by the more common sodium-yellow light.
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It’ll be all white on the night…or will it?
17 Feb 2016 -
New lease of life for tungsten bulbs?
Tuesday 16 February 2016In a remarkable change of direction in the search for energy efficient lighting, researchers at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a technique that could make tungsten filament bulbs three times more efficient than LED
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New lease of life for tungsten bulbs?
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A stem-cell first for macular degeneration
Monday 15 February 2016In a pioneering clinical trial, a patient with macular degeneration has been treated using lab-grown stem cells at University College London.
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A stem-cell first for macular degeneration
15 Feb 2016
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