Glaucoma Care: Caregivers Role In Helping Patients Cope With The Condition
Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that can cause blindness and we bring you ways in which the family, primary caregiver and counsellors can adopt to provide better care to loved ones with this condition.
Jun 04, 2023, 12:15 PM IST
Popular Youtuber Mr Beast Helps 1000 Blind People to See First Time in Life; Patients' Expressions Melt Netizens' Heart | Watch
Jimmy Donaldson aka Mr. Beast has become the most followed individual youtuber after overtaking PewDiePie a few months back. He currently has over 130 M susbscribers on his YouTube channel with the same name.
Jan 29, 2023, 15:31 PM IST
World Braille Day: All you need to know about Louis Braille's birth anniversary
Braille is frequently used in everyday products including payment terminals, shampoo bottles, and prescription packets in order to interact with blind people.
Jan 04, 2023, 08:10 AM IST
Taal Thok Ke (Special Edition) LIVE: No infection still threat of Black Fungus?
In this segment of Taal Thok Ke, we bring you a panel discussion on concurrent issues. The topic for discussion in this episode of 'Taal Thok Ke' - No infection still threat of Black Fungus?
May 23, 2021, 19:30 PM IST
Taal Thok Ke (Special Edition): Can 'Black Fungus' spread through air?
In this segment of Taal Thok Ke, we bring you a panel discussion on concurrent issues. The topic for discussion in this episode of 'Taal Thok Ke' - Can 'Black Fungus' spread through air?
May 22, 2021, 19:32 PM IST
What is the 'sugar connection' of black fungus?
How dangerous is black fungus to sugar patients and does controlled level of diabetes reduces its risk? Watch the video to know.
May 22, 2021, 17:26 PM IST
New eye drops may prevent vision loss after retinal vein occlusion: Study
The study was published in Nature Communications. Retinal vein occlusion occurs when a major vein that drains blood from the retina is blocked, usually due to a blood clot. As a result, blood and other fluids leak into the retina, damaging specialized light-sensing neurons called photoreceptors.
Jul 02, 2020, 16:33 PM IST
Amitabh Bachchan launches eye care campaign to fight blindness
The actor, himself a proud wearer of glasses, hopes this will encourage others to wear glasses without any stigma.
Jun 17, 2019, 19:53 PM IST
Gene editing method could prevent glaucoma
Researchers found that removing the mutated protein by disrupting the mutant myociln results in lowered intraocular pressure, which in turn prevents glaucomatous damage to the eye.
Oct 03, 2017, 15:14 PM IST
Cataract behind 63% blindness cases in India: Experts
According to a group of ophthalmologists, who were speaking to the media at Rajendra Prasad Eye (RP) Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences at the AIIMS, India currently has the highest numbers of blind and visually impaired people.
Sep 02, 2017, 15:38 PM IST
Treatment for age-related blindness a problem no more! Revolutionary new eye-drops developed
The drops use a cell-penetrating peptide (CPP) to deliver the drug to the relevant part of the eye within minutes.
May 16, 2017, 18:07 PM IST
Brains of blind people 'rewire' to boost other senses
Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in the US used MRI multimodal brain imaging techniques to reveal these changes in a group of 12 subjects with early blindness and they compared the scans to a group of 16 normally sighted subjects.
Mar 23, 2017, 21:05 PM IST
How smoking causes glaucoma, other eye diseases
Glaucoma is a condition that causes damage to eye’s optic nerve and gets worse over time.
Mar 20, 2017, 09:12 AM IST
New nano-implant may help restore sight
The nanowires give the prosthesis higher resolution than anything achieved by other devices - closer to the dense spacing of photoreceptors in the human retina.
Mar 15, 2017, 15:39 PM IST
Eyes of Zebra fish may help unveil cure for human blindness, say scientists!
In the study, when the scientists injected drugs that kept GABA concentrations in the retinas of newly blinded fish at a high level, they found it suppressed the regeneration process.
Mar 12, 2017, 23:55 PM IST
Doctors claim India free from trachoma: All you need to know about eye infection causing blindness
The infection, which is caused by an obligate intracellular bacterium called Chlamydia trachomatis, is common in children till nine years of age.
Mar 11, 2017, 17:03 PM IST
There is potential cure for blindness in humans – Read
The findings showed that the levels of GABA (gamma aminobutyric acid), a neurotransmitter, best known for its role of calming nervous activity -- drop when the unique self repair process kicks in.
Mar 11, 2017, 12:48 PM IST
This 'special' surgery might prevent blindness - Read
Gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 can be delivered directly into the eye to treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD), an advance that may pave way for a new therapy for non-hereditary degenerative diseases.
Feb 17, 2017, 17:35 PM IST
Eye health: 8 ways to improve your vision naturally!
. There are many things you can do to keep your eyes healthy and enjoy good eyesight.
Sep 23, 2016, 05:45 AM IST
DNA: Analyzing the effect of the smart phone on your eyes
Analyzing the effect of the smart phone on your eyes and smart phone blindness. To know more watch the full news story.
Sep 11, 2016, 00:58 AM IST
