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  • Eye Health and Diet
    Health - 3 Sep 2018
    Healthy vision is important in ensuring quality of life. Two common threats to aging eyes are cataracts and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) which can, however, be prevented to some extent by a...
  • Signs and Risk Factors for Eye Disease
    Health - 30 Mar 2020
    This article gives an overview of eye disease, alongside common symptoms and risk factors associated with various eye diseases.
  • What is Lowe's Syndrome?
    Health - 20 Jun 2023
    Lowe’s syndrome - also known as the cerebrooculorenal syndrome, the oculocerebrorenal syndrome of Lowe, and phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate-5-phosphatase deficiency - represents a very rare...
  • Smoking and Eye Health: What You Need to Know
    Health - 26 Feb 2019
    Smoking is one of those lifestyle habits that is entirely harmful to our health. There are no grey areas, no hypotheses, and no conflicting theories about the effect of smoking on human body in...
  • History of Ophthalmology
    Health - 27 Feb 2019
    The known history of ophthalmology dates back to the early days of written history, in which initial observations and speculations about the eye were recorded. Over the ages, the understanding of the...
  • Looking After Your Eyes During Old Age
    Health - 24 Sep 2018
    Just like other physiological functions of the body, eyesight also starts declining as a person ages. It is a natural phenomenon, and a common problem with aging, which gets amplified due to unhealthy...
  • Causes of visual impairment
    Health - 7 Jun 2023
    There are many causes that may lead to loss of vision or lead to impairment of vision. Common causes that lead to vision loss or visual impairment include injury to the eye, inherited conditions,...
  • Galactosemia Treatments
    Health - 25 Feb 2023
    Galactosemia is an inherited genetic disorder of metabolism where the body is unable to metabolize a sugar called galactose.
  • What is Cerebro-Oculo-Facio-Skeletal Syndrome?
    Health - 18 Aug 2023
    Cerebro-oculo-facio-skeletal syndrome or COFS is an unusual neurodegenerative disease with an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance. This article explores the syndrome in depth.
  • What is Iridoschisis?
    Health - 1 Apr 2019
    Iridoschisis is a condition described by Schmitt in 1922, but so named in another case report by Lowenstein and Foster in 1945. In this condition, the front portion of the iris (anterior layer of the...

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