“I wake up in the middle of the night and it feels like my eyeballs were on fire, and I think, ‘Oh, maybe I have sand in my eyes [so] I douse my eyes with water…it turns out I have sunburned my eyeballs and I go blind for 36 hours.” This was television host Anderson […]
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A revolutionary new device has effectively helped a blind man read braille with his eyes instead of his fingers. The new development is the first of its kind and, once proven on a larger scale, could revolutionize how degenerative eye diseases are treated. To confirm the technology works, researchers “streamed the letter patterns to an […]
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A team working at the Missouri University of Science and Technology has found that eye drops containing the antioxidant N-acetylcysteine amide (NACA) are effective in preventing or healing various disorders of the eye related to age, including cataracts, macular degeneration, and other degenerative eye disorders. The aging of the eye frequently brings with it a number ailments […]
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