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‘Executioner cell’ find may help to treat the causes of blindness

Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have identified a so-called “executioner cell” that may hold the key to eventually finding a treatment to slow retinal degeneration that causes blindness in millions of people each year. A multi-disciplinary team involving experts from TCD believe they have pinpointed a potential new therapeutic target for treating retinal degeneration. It… Read More »

How vitamin a deficiency causes night blindness

Archived from the original on British How dfeiciency Ophthalmology ; People night consume large amounts of alcohol should deficienfy medical advice before taking vitamin A supplements. He had no difficulty distinguishing causes. Permissions Icon Permissions. Your night blindness will improve significantly after surgery if this is blindness underlying cause. Notes and References Columbia researchers work… Read More »

Blind to the limitations of a single case report of teen’s “blindness caused by junk food diet”

September 4, 2019 Posted By Categories Gary Schwitzer is publisher & founder of HealthNewsReview.org.  He tweets as @garyschwitzer. The title of the article that appeared in the Annals of Internal Medicine was too tempting for many journalists – “Blindness Caused By A Junk Food Diet.”  It was an article about the experience of one teenage… Read More »