Science and Technology - Briefs
Smoke gets in your eyes - and forms cataracts
The oxidising property of cigarette and chulha smoke is one of the factors being linked by researchers to the formation of eye cataract.
Cataract blindness hits women more than men in India
Women are 69% more likely to develop cataract — clouding of the normally clear lens of the eye — than men
Aye for an eye
Transplanting light-sensitive cells of aborted human foetuses into retinas of blind adults can enable them to see again
Soon, a tear-based screening test for childhood blinding condition
Researchers at LV Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad have identified a few proteins that cause inflammation in the eye leading to abnormal blood …
This paper mill in Punjab is causing cancer, loss of vision
Residents allege that the Kuantum pulp and paper mill in Saila Khurd, the only industry in the block for 30 years, is responsible for their …
Cataract top cause of blindness in India, finds survey
The condition is responsible for 66.2 per cent of blindness cases in people above 50, according to the National Blindness and Visual Impairment Survey
Traffic pollution may lead to vision loss: Study
Prolonged exposure to nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide can increase risk of age-related macular degeneration that can cause irreversible …
Ebola survivors can lose their eyesight. What we're doing to prevent it
Translating lessons learnt during the outbreak in West Africa into improved vision health is an ongoing necessity in Congo
Fighting for a cause
K N Narayana Pillai, 75, is an ordinary citizen who has been suffering because of pollution from an industrial unit operating beside his house. …