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• Eyeball to eyeball (with tooth-sucking….)

  
  Writing from the twelfth house — Authority: 110
  Eyeball to eyeball - with politics! Tooth-sucking – ie slow inhalation of air through lower teeth (or, even worse, dentures) – is a very bad sign . Plumbers do it. Electricians do it. Computer geeks do it. Builders are especially prone to it . When accompanied by head-shaking and eyebrow knitting, it is a ...
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• Keep Eye Safety In Mind When Choosing Toys This Holiday

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  Imagine a BB gun pellet striking your childs eye with enough force to knock him to the ground. Sadly, some popular childrens gifts around the holidays can cause serious eye injuries.
  23 hours ago

• Diabetes surgery summit consensus lays foundation for new field of medicine

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 643
  NEW YORK (Nov. 23, 2009) -- A first-of-its-kind consensus statement on diabetes surgery is published online today in the Annals of Surgery.
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• Thorne: TV show aims to show authentic people with disabilities

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 481
  From the [UK] Independent:Jack Thorne, a co-writer for the BBC series “Cast Offs,” says his own experience coping with disability inspired him to create a show that explodes a few myths about disability. Thorne has a condition called chronic cholinergic urticaria, which is basically an allergy to heat, and another ...
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• Video- Youre as pretty as Palin, Carville tells Matalin

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 686
  Embedded video from CNN Video Stockholm Syndrome.
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• British surgeons using radiation beams to halt macular degeneration

  
  F-Default — Authority: 542
    We’ve seen more eyesight restoration efforts than we could easily count , but rather than tooting their horn about some theoretical discovery, boffins at Kings College Hospital in London are actually putting their hard work to use on real, live human brings. The new process, which goes by the name ...
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• British surgeons using radiation beams to halt macular degeneration

  
  Engadget — Authority: 870
  Weve seen more eyesight restoration efforts than we could easily count , but rather than tooting their horn about some theoretical discovery, boffins at Kings College Hospital in London are actually putting their hard work to use on real, live human brings. The new process, which goes by the name brachytherapy, ...
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• Medical policy innovation, reduces blindness by a third

  
  INNOVATION. International Journal by 2thinknow. — Authority: 131
  River Blindness (Onchocerciasis) Reduced By Nearly One-Third In At-Risk Populations In Six Countries Progress Represents a Major Step toward the Goal of Interrupting Transmission of River Blindness in the Americas by 2012 WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A regional initiative launched in the 1990s ...
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• Serious long-term complications include cardiovascular disease, chronic renal failure, retinal forfeit, which can lead to blindness, several types of nerve afflict, and microvascular forfeit, which may cause erectile dysfunction and poor wound healing. Ty

  
  Diabetes — Authority: 133
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  2 days ago

• Seeing Blankers

  
  HYPERGRAPHIC — Authority: 113
  It’s hard not to gallop through prose that uses commas instead of full stops, but once I learned to slow down, the rewards piled up: his sound, sweet humour, his startling imagination, his admirable dogs and lovers, the subtle, honest workings of his mind. Here indeed was a novelist worthy of a reader’s trust. So ...
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• New super A carrots boost vision (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  London, Nov 22 (ANI): Farmers have grown a novel form of carrots that are 40 per cent richer in antioxidants and can boost vision compared to normal varieties.The superfood, which is set to hit the market next week, is 40pct rich in beta-carotene, an antioxidant the body converts into vitamin A and boosts health.It ...
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• After Scouring The World – The Best Effective Herbs Have Been Combined To Make A 90%+ Successful Constipation Formula! Top 7 Problems!

  
  Health Resources — Authority: 148
  Below, the top seven diabetic problems are listed.   THE TOP 7 1. EYE PROBLEMS & BLINDNESS: Each year, 12,000-24,000 people become blind because of diabetic eye disease. 2. KIDNEY PROBLEMS: Kidney problems. About 38,000 individuals suffering from diabetes also develop kidney failure every year, and ...
  3 days ago

• International Sports Star Undergoes Surgery, Regains Sight At UAB After Training Disaster

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  Baljit Singh was looking forward to 2010. The premier event in professional field hockey, the World Cup, is to be hosted in his native India next year. And Singh, 28, was the goalie on the Indian National Team. He was considered the best goalie in Asia, ranked fourth in the world. Until a practice incident on July 17 ...
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• New super A carrots boost vision

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  London, Nov 21 (ANI): Farmers have grown a novel form of carrots that are 40 per cent richer in antioxidants and can boost vision compared to normal varieties.The superfood, which is set to hit the market next week, is 40pct rich in beta-carotene, an antioxidant the body converts into vitamin A and boosts health.It ...
  4 days ago

• Advanced Cell Technology Files IND With FDA For First Human Clinical Trial Using Embryonic Stem Cells To Treat Eye Disease

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. (OTCBB:ACTC) announced that it filed an Investigational New Drug (IND) Application with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate a Phase I/II multicenter study using embryonic stem cell derived retinal cells to treat patients with Stargardts Macular Dystrophy (SMD).
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• Me Gusta Broken Embraces

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 626
  One of the things about language that fascinates me most is that so much of translation is really just a science of digesting a saying comfortably into another tongue. For instance, the phrase me gusta – delineating one liking a person, place, or thing and often translated to mean I like –actually translates ...
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• In need of dental work, blind woman with autism receives outpouring of help

  
  disabilityresourcelinks.com — Authority: 144
    In need of dental work, blind woman with autism receives outpouring of help
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• First Human Trials for Stem Cell Blindness Therapy

  
  UwidoNews - Submitted news — Authority: 170
  The first human trials of a stem cell therapy for an eye disease that causes blindness in young people could start next year.
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• The American Optometric Association And Digital Healthcare, Inc. Sign Memorandum Of Understanding

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  The American Optometric Association (AOA) and Digital Healthcare, Inc. (DH) have joined together to assist optometrists in providing better care for patients with diabetes and other chronic diseases, and in promoting public health. Both parties recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
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• Patients Win With Immediate Avastin Payment Reversal

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  Following efforts by the American Academy of Ophthalmology with the help of the American Society of Retina Specialists, the Macula Society, the Retina Society and Congressional allies, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said that it will retract an Oct. 1 payment policy for small doses of Avastin.
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