Health Care Overhaul IV: This Time, It's Personal Nov 3, 2009
Even careful users will frequently experience highs (which increase the likelihood of long-term complications like heart disease and blindness) and lows (which can be immediately life-threatening). . (Townhall.com)
* Twenty years after the Wall Nov 3, 2009
Arrogance of power and blindness about reality were the two main causes for the decline of the sole remaining superpower. While most of the blame lies with former US president George W. Bush, numerous negative trends had preceded him. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Bay Bridge Back in Business Nov 3, 2009
I can't drive due to blindness but do use mass transit. Am in Seattle. (CBS News)
Russia 'simulates' nuclear attack on Poland... Nov 3, 2009
I being the first born in the United States have nothing but contempt for the weakness and blindness of this administration and the inconsideration that they hold for the sacrafices of so many that died with this wishy washy good for nothing appeasment philosophy. Everyone will soon see in their life what this kind of approach brings. (The Drudge Report)
Giving sight by therapy with genes Nov 3, 2009
Starting at about two weeks, all 12 had significant improvement, said Stephen Rose, chief research officer at the Foundation Fighting Blindness, which helped finance the study ... But its certainly a reversal of the blindness. (India Times, India)
More kids have diabetes, fewer schools have nurses Nov 2, 2009
A leading cause of death in the USA, diabetes can lead to debilitating or fatal complications, including heart disease, stroke, blindness and kidney disease. More than 65% of people with diabetes die from heart disease or stroke. (USA Today)
Kenya: Beer Market War Looms in Bid to Legalise Traditional Liquor Nov 2, 2009
More recently the government has been pushed into disaster management as a significant proportion of low income earners turned to cheap illicit drinks -- sometimes laced with deadly additives that have caused deaths or mass blindness among consumers. If passed by Parliament, the new law could see the proliferation of small but regulated brewers of chang'aa leading to better packaging of the drink and intense competition with established brewers for the spirits market. (allAfrica.com)
Edit: Talking Tough Nov 2, 2009
Other statements made by her regarding the denial, the wilful blindness so prevalent in the Pakistani polity and politics, go to the heart of the problems plaguing the country today. The political space for secular parties has been occupied by weak, squabbling actors. (India Times, India)
Cataract surgery helps AMD patients; steroid improves DME; online eye health forum Nov 2, 2009
Data was obtained from the multicenter, prospective Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS), funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI), which was organized primarily to evaluate the effects of high-dose vitamin and mineral supplements on cataract and AMD. As the American population ages AMD prevalence is expected to rise, and many patients will concurrently develop cataract; both diseases can cause blindness if untreated. "Earlier epidemiology had suggested cataract surgery might worsen AMD, so... (EurekAlert!)
Ship built with WTC steel comes to namesake city Nov 2, 2009
Although she won a Golden Globe for her lead performance as a working-class single woman in Mira Nair's "Hysterical Blindness" (2002) and was nominated for an Oscar for her role in Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" (1994), she doesn't consider those celebrated roles, or her work in Tarantino's "Kill Bill" movies, to be her greatest achievement. NEW YORK -- A Navy assault ship built with steel from the fallen World Trade Center and named in honor of the city and state that were home to the twin... (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
Headaches and heartaches: Wife's persistence leads to relief Nov 2, 2009
Jason received a new quiver of pills, but still drew no relief, at one point suffering a temporary side effect of near blindness. With 40 to 100 ice-pick attacks a day, the emergency room became a frequent destination, and he took a six-month medical leave from work. (Allston Brighton TAB, MA)
NKF sets aside S$10m to help needy kidney donors Nov 1, 2009
It covers the donor against death, total and permanent disability, and 30 critical illnesses including stroke and blindness. Under the amended HOTA, organ recipients may have to compensate living donors for costs incurred as a result of the transplant. (Channelnewsasia.com)
Patent medicine makers claimed to cure all Nov 1, 2009
Aggressively marketed patent medicines, offering supposed cures for anything and everything, from bowel complaints to blindness, were all the rage in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In an age of nonexistent government regulation, these proprietary medicines were often formulated by entrepreneurs with little or no medical background who then made hyper-exaggerated claims for their curative properties. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
In this flawed novel, an elderly actor faces fear of failing powers Nov 1, 2009
It shines out of his self-quarreling characters, whose insight is so acute that it approaches blindness, and who churn with a comic and terrible insatiability. The sinking vessel that carries them - they ve helped pry the seams open - is formidably powered, elegantly equipped, and serves excellent meals (followed by a quiver of acid reflux). (Boston Globe)
Eye of the hurricane: Is Mississippi Coast invisible? Nov 1, 2009
Invisibility means that literally an object cannot be seen, but it also can mean that because of perception or philosophical blindness, or lack of knowledge, a person or group, or a place, such as Mississippi, may be invisible. Ralph Ellison's powerful novel, "Invisible Man," is about an unnamed black man who believes himself to be socially invisible. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Trials for 'bionic' eye implants Nov 1, 2009
Retinal implants are able to partially restore the vision of people with particular forms of blindness caused by diseases such as macular degeneration or retinitis pigmentosa. About 1. (Yahoo News -- Disabilities and the Disabled)
Tech Helps Curb Infant Blindness Nov 1, 2009
One of the most frightening was a risk of blindness that doctors sometimes don't recognize until too late. Thanks to a Stanford telemedicine program, doctors can remotely diagnose , or ROP, a condition that threatens 80,000 premature babies annually in the United States and causes blindness in up to 600 ... Weighing the risk of blindness and the risks of treatment, the physician must strike a fine balance between delaying treatment for those babies who might recover on their own and rapidly... (Yahoo News -- Children's Health)
* PDVSA, Petrobras finalize deal on Brazilian refinery Nov 1, 2009
He said the two countries and South America as a whole are becoming liberated from our own blindness; Weve spent a lot of time without seeing each other, without discovering our potential in politics, culture and trade. . (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Brain 'can beat early blindness' Oct 31, 2009
Brain 'can beat early blindness. Some blindness is reversible. (Yahoo News -- Brain Research)
Change may curb diabetes risk Oct 31, 2009
Diabetes is the main cause of kidney failure, limb amputations and new onset blindness in adults and a major cause of heart disease and stroke. The outcomes study is a follow-up to a Diabetes Prevention Program clinical trial involving 3,234 overweight or obese adults with elevated blood glucose levels, a precursor to diabetes. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Sight gone, but not necessarily lost? Oct 31, 2009
Poorly developed blood vessels can lead to visual impairment or even blindness ... Mice lacking functional Fz4 have poor blood vessel growth in the retina and are blind, but it was not known whether the blood vessel deficiency was the cause of blindness or whether the absence of Fz4 leads to some other defect that causes blindness. (EurekAlert!)
Lloyd Garver: Airline pilots should avoid multitasking Oct 31, 2009
The researchers refer to this phenomenon as "inattentional blindness." Maybe that's what the pilots had. Maybe that's what your kid has as she talks on her cell phone and you're waving your arms in front of her. (Wakefield Daily Item, MA)
A Ballerina's Triumph Over Diabetes Oct 31, 2009
Like many people who receive the diagnosis of diabetes she spent a lot of time in denial and yet in intense fear of developing the possible complications she was warned about such as stroke, heart attack, kidney failure and blindness. When Zippora was finally correctly diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes because her body fails to produce insulin, she began to gain glycemic control. (Suite101.com)
Nestl: The unrepentant chocolatier Oct 30, 2009
Some 2 billion people suffer from deficiencies of such vitamins and minerals, with impacts ranging from blindness to premature death. The firm had dismissed infant cereal as a niche product, but now its researchers are using that product as a carrier for probiotics and vitamins for children. (The Economist)
2009 Glaucoma Week is launched Oct 30, 2009
Untreated glaucoma results in blindness because of the irreversible damage it causes ... Dr Imoro Braimah, an Ophthalmologist at Korle-bu Teaching Hospital, said the disease was a silent 'thief' of sight and the second cause of blindness after cataract ... He said glaucoma like diabetes and hypertension were diseases that could be managed and not cured and blindness could cost the nation dearly. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Heroic challenge Oct 30, 2009
" L/Cpl Lundberg explained his blindness did not diminish his experience in any way. "I've had a whole team of people explaining what they can see. You don't get one view, you get 10 views of what it looks like. (BBC News -- UK)
Cardinal OMalley leads mass as Church celebrates anniversary Oct 29, 2009
Then he seamlessly went on to tell the story of Pablo, a poor villager who eventually was cured of his blindness in a big city ... We need the wisdom to see the world through God s eyes, he continued, and told the story of another blind man who realizes that the Lord cures blindness but also offers salvation. (Dover Sherborn Tab, MA)
Why the CIA Can't Be Picky About Afghan Partners Oct 29, 2009
We came into Afghanistan in October 2001 with the same willful blindness. The CIA knew that its ally the Tajik Northern Alliance was a paid-up proxy of Iran, just as it was fully aware that another ally, Uzbek General Dostum, was one of Afghanistan's great butchers (though Dostum has always denied the widespread allegations of his brutality). (Time.com)
High cost of feral cats (7) Oct 29, 2009
Toxoplasmosis also damages human embryos, causing infant mortality, cerebral palsy, blindness, mental retardation and other birth defects. Plus, feral cats transfer roundworms, hookworms and ringworm to humans and wildlife. (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
Could medical homes help improve health care in the U.S.? Oct 29, 2009
Put primary care doctors like Klitgaard on the front end, the theory goes, and they could make sure patients see the right specialists, avoid duplicative tests, get proper medications and prevent the worst complications of chronic illness, such as diabetes-related blindness. Our system has gotten very good at paying for things to be done to patients, as opposed to keeping patients from having to have things done to them, said Dr. Ted Epperly, chair of the American Academy of Family... (MSNBC -- Health)
"Sight for Africa" screens 1,500 people in Accra Oct 29, 2009
Mr Antwi said Sight for Africa was set up in 2003 with the sole aim of providing eye care services to the poor and vulnerable and the need to avoid preventable blindness. He said the NGO also offered free education on the eye through partnership with other organizations and governments. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
A Decade Later, Lifestyle Changes Or Metformin Still Lower Type 2 Diabetes Risk Oct 29, 2009
It is the main cause of kidney failure, limb amputations, and new onset blindness in adults and a major cause of heart disease and stroke. Type 2 diabetes, which accounts for up to 95 percent of all diabetes cases, becomes more common with increasing age. (Science Daily)
PET TALK: Pair's wonderful way with disabled animals is rewarded Oct 28, 2009
Dogs with three legs, or neurological or orthopedic issues, or blindness. Cats that are blind or can't walk well because of congenital or neurological issues. (USA Today -- Life)
Potential sentence could vary for juvenile Oct 28, 2009
kalihees wrote on Oct 26, 2009 5:06 PM:" Byron, I will not waste my time in attempt to reach some sort of sanity from you. You have your right to believe what it is you would like top believe. That said, you should know that I believe that this child perpetrator has God to judge them-not you or anyone else. Adult prision is not going to help them. It will only worsen whatever emotional and psychiatrical issues that they have. I am sure past trauma to this child has caused them to become the way... (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
Keep The Gitmo Terrorists In Gitmo Oct 27, 2009
(National Review Online) Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the author of Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad. If Guantanamo Bay is closed, scores of trained jihadists, committed to killing Americans, will be released to dwell among us: It is that simple. (CBS News -- Opinion)
Gene Therapy Cures a Form of Blindness Oct 27, 2009
Exhilarated scientists on Saturday announced they had used gene therapy to restore eyesight to children blighted by a rare, inherited form of creeping blindness ... Caused by flaws in any one of around 13 key genes, LCA triggers severe loss of vision and abnormal eye movements in early infancy, usually leading to total blindness in the twenties or thirties ... It comes less than six weeks after another breakthrough in gene vision therapy, in which two monkeys were cured of color blindness. (Newsmax)
Tech Helps Curb Infant Blindness Oct 27, 2009
One of the most frightening was a risk of blindness that doctors sometimes don't recognize until too late. Thanks to a Stanford telemedicine program, doctors can remotely diagnose , or ROP, a condition that threatens 80,000 premature babies annually in the United States and causes blindness in up to 600 ... Weighing the risk of blindness and the risks of treatment, the physician must strike a fine balance between delaying treatment for those babies who might recover on their own and rapidly... (Yahoo News -- Children's Health)
Gene therapy experiment restores sight in a few Oct 27, 2009
"The study by Bennett and co-workers will further boost gene therapy trials and provide hope for patients with inherited blindness and other genetic disorders," Dr Frans Cremers and Dr Rob Collin of Nijmegen Medical Center in the Netherlands wrote in a commentary. A faulty gene means patients with LCA start to lose their vision in childhood. (MSNBC -- Health)
Type two diabetes tipped to double over next 40 years Oct 27, 2009
Despite best efforts, the majority of Australians with type 2 diabetes are unable to achieve their treatment goals, placing them at greater risk of developing complications - including heart disease, kidney failure, blindness and ; amputations. . (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
License Revocation Over Doctor's Affair With His Patient Is Upheld Oct 27, 2009
"Petitioner's sexual relationship with Patient H ... reflects a pattern of behavior evincing a failure to respect the trust and confidence placed in him by his patients and a blindness to the potential consequences of his conduct," Spain wrote. The board moved to revoke D'Angelo's license on the grounds that he was morally unfit to practice medicine under Education Law 6530[20. (Law.com)
Festivals in India Go Green Oct 27, 2009
But these dyes are toxic causing irritation on skin and in the eyes sometimes leading to temporary blindness and skin discoloration. Idols immersed into tanks and rivers or lakes cause water pollution. (Suite101.com)
Treating ROP in tiny preemies; better glaucoma follow-up in urban clinic Oct 26, 2009
But the treatment has also contributed to an epidemic of ROP-related blindness and vision loss in the US and other countries that provide neonatal intensive care. ROP vision loss occurs due to abnormal growth and function of blood vessels that nourish the retina, the light-sensitive area in the back of the eye where images are formed for relay to the brain's visual cortex. (EurekAlert!)
Stop nation-building, just save our way of life Oct 26, 2009
A similar blindness afflicted the Soviets in the USSR's war on Afghan "insurgents." Christopher Andrew, citing KGB archives smuggled out of the USSR by Vasili Mitrokhin in "The World Was Going Our Way," writes: "Islam became the unifying bond of opposition to the (Afghan Communist Party) and its Soviet backers. Afghan resistance to the regime was thus transformed into a jihad in defense of Islam whose significance was grossly underestimated by the KGB. None of the reports noted by Mitrokhin even... (Townhall.com)
Read the story Oct 26, 2009
Gene Therapy Offers Hope For Blindness - CBS News ... Gene Therapy Offers Hope For Blindness ... Treatment Dramatically Improves Rare, Inherited Blindness. (CBS News -- Evening News)
Gene Therapy Restores Vision in Blind Children Oct 26, 2009
Gene Therapy Deals Blow Against Rare Blindness ... Therapy treating specific type of blindness gives doctors hope for future cure ... Children born with a mutation in one of 13 genes that cause Leber's congenital amaurosis typically have severe vision deficits from birth that progress to total blindness by age 30 to 50. (ABC News)
Dr. Lloyd M. Aiello is a visionary in laser treatment Oct 26, 2009
Before 1967, few who had a complication called proliferative diabetic retinopathy avoided blindness ... Our goal today is not to prevent blindness. (Boston Globe)
Brain Research on Hypnosis Oct 26, 2009
These include hysterical blindness, hysterical paralysis and visual neglect where the person has awareness of only half their visual field, to name a few. These are conditions that usually only occur in patients with other serious psychological disorders such as schizophrenia which makes them difficult to study. (Suite101.com)
1 shot of gene therapy and children with congenital blindness can now see Oct 25, 2009
Extending a preliminary study published last year on three young adults, the full study reports successful, sustained results that showed notable improvement in children with congenital blindness ... For Bennett, the results build on nearly 20 years of gene studies on hereditary blindness, starting with pioneering work in mice and dogs ... It usually begins stealing sight in early childhood and causes total blindness during a patient's twenties or thirties. (EurekAlert!)
Eye gene therapy boost for young Oct 25, 2009
Treatment so far has focused on Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA), a rare inherited disorder which causes gradual deterioration in vision and can lead to blindness by the time the patient is 20. It occurs when faulty genes, called RPE65, stop the layer of cells at the back of the eye working. (BBC News -- Health)
Susie Essman's Enlarged Prostate Oct 23, 2009
"So far this month," she told me, "I've had Lyme disease, hysterical blindness, enlarged prostate....". If any woman could actually have an enlarged prostate - either her own or snatched in a fit of pique from her beleaguered television husband played by Jeff Garlin - it would be Susie Greene. (CBS News -- Health)
Teenager bailed over laser attack Oct 23, 2009
"Lasers can cause temporary blindness, which, where pilots are concerned, can spell catastrophe.". Bookmark with. (BBC News -- UK)
Novartis says 3Q profit up 1 pct, raises outlook Oct 23, 2009
It noted that recently approved Lucentis, for patients with wet age-related macular degeneration, a form of blindness, and Tasigna, to treat certain forms of Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia, compensated weakening performance of the hypertension drug Diovan in the U.S. as patients chose cheap generics. Novartis said it expected pharmaceuticals net sales in local currencies to grow at a double-digit rate in 2009. (Yahoo News -- Pharmaceutical Industry News)
Cecile Betts Oct 23, 2009
Adversities: Never knowing her mother, pioneering life in Alaska in 1947 with two small children and family on East Coast, triple bypass, pacemaker, husband afflicted with Alzheimer s, her own colon cancer, blindness, and lung cancer ... Blindness was the most difficult to accept, mostly because she could no longer read, but she accepted it, shifted gears and adapted. (Wasilla Frontiersman, AK)
Alzheimer's Lesions Found In The Retina Oct 23, 2009
7, 2007) Scientists have shown for the first time that key proteins involved in Alzheimer's disease are also implicated in glaucoma, the major cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. Research has also. (Science Daily)
Transplanted Tissue Improves Vision: Study Shows Enhanced Visual Acuity Oct 22, 2009
Research was supported by an anonymous donor, the Foundation Fighting Blindness, the Kentucky Lions Eye Foundation, the Murray Foundation Inc., Research to Prevent Blindness, and the Vitreoretinal Research Foundation ... (July 11, 2008) Preliminary research shows encouraging results with transplantation of retinal cells in patients with blindness caused by retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration, according to a new. (Science Daily)
New Method To Coax Retinal Cells From Stem Cells Oct 22, 2009
Research was supported by the National Eye Institute, the Foundation Fighting Blindness, the Lincy Foundation, and the Retina Research Foundation. Adapted from materials provided by , via , a service of AAAS. Email or share this story. (Science Daily)
Engineered Proteins Restore Light Sensitivity To Animals Oct 22, 2009
Research was supported by the Nanomedicine Development Center for the Optical Control of Biological Function and the Foundation Fighting Blindness ... 15, 2007) University of Florida researchers have used an experimental therapy in mice to shut down a gene that plays a crucial role in a leading cause of inherited blindness. (Science Daily)
Trials for 'bionic' eye implants Oct 22, 2009
Retinal implants are able to partially restore the vision of people with particular forms of blindness caused by diseases such as macular degeneration or retinitis pigmentosa. About 1. (Yahoo News -- Disabilities and the Disabled)
Social Security told to modernize for the blind Oct 21, 2009
About 250,000 Americans receive benefits because of blindness, and another 2. 7 million blind or sight-impaired people get Social Security for other reasons. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Stem Cell Transplants Stalled Blindness in Rats Oct 21, 2009
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Nerve stem cell transplants may help slow the progression of macular degeneration, the most common cause of blindness in the developed world, U.S. researchers said on Monday. They said putting nerve stem cells from StemCells Inc near the retinas of rats with a form of macular degeneration helped keep the disease from advancing to blindness for several months. (MEDLINEplus)
With luck, a new kidney Oct 21, 2009
Diabetes is a primary cause of leg amputations, renal failure and blindness. It causes heart disease and strokes. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Experimental treatments restore partial vision to blind people Oct 21, 2009
These diseases destroy the light-sensitive nerve cells in the retina, leading to blindness. In all, vision loss and eye disease affect 3. (EurekAlert!)
Elderly, disabled may get property tax break Oct 21, 2009
Those categories are as follows: paraplegia, permanent paralysis of both legs and lower part of the body resulting from traumatic injury or disease to the spinal cord or brain, loss or loss of use of two or more limbs, legal blindness, total and permanent disability rating from a service-connected disability, or a 100 percent total and permanent disability rating from being a prisoner of war. The widow or widower of a disabled veteran may also qualify by providing a copy of their spouse s death... (Camden Chronicle, TN)
JPMorgan, Drug, `Sexual Deviance' Claims Added to Madoff Investor Lawsuit Oct 21, 2009
The size and scope of the fraud necessitated the cooperation and assistance of many individuals and institutions who either knowingly or with willful blindness participated in the fraud. . (Bloomberg -- US)
Medical Marijuana Oct 21, 2009
Doctors also warned against overuse of marijuana, believing that too much consumption caused impotence, blindness and "seeing devils.". By the late 18th century, early editions of American medical journals recommend hemp seeds and roots for the treatment of inflamed skin, incontinence and venereal disease. (Time.com)
