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• Do Vegetarians Live Longer?

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 167
  No, vegetarians do not live longer than most other folks.However, they are more youthful in the earlier parts of their lives, then lose this advantage later on, eventually living about as long as everyone else.Seventh Day Adventist women and men live 7.28 and 4.42 years longer on average, respectively, than average ...
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• What Is Cataract? How Does A Diet That Is Deficient In Vitamin A Affect Vision?

  
  MYOHMYMYOHMY — Authority: 149
  What is cataract? How does a diet that is deficient in vitamin A affect vision?
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• Cataract Outsourcing’s Noteworthy Products for 2009

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 140
  It is always so interesting to focus on new products each month for our posts.  We as bloggers get the unique opportunity to research products that have very widespread application in the medical arena.  Below is a short list of the noteworthy products of 2009.   I hope you enjoy reading them as much as we enjoyed ...
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• Leafy veggies, colored fruits boost vision

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  Washington, Dec 18 (ANI): Carotenoids, found in green leafy vegetables and colored fruits, boost visual performance and may prevent age-related eye diseases, says a new study.The study has been published in the Journal of Food Science, published by the Institute of Food Technologists.To reach the conclusion, authors ...
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• Tamil Nadu: Government shuts down eye hospital following blinds

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  Chennai, Dec 17 (ANI): Lashing out at the doctors for their careless attitude, the Tamil Nadu government has asked the concerned Dharapuram hospital to be shut down where seven patients lost their vision within a period of two days.At the Dharapuram hospital, seven patients lost their vision after undergoing a free ...
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• Nine persons lose vision after cataract surgery in Tamil Nadu

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  Dharampur (Tamil Nadu), Dec.16 (ANI): At least nine patients lost their eyesight following cataract surgery in a private hospital in Dharapuram town of Tamil Nadu state.About 23 patients had to be admitted in city’s Ludhran eye care hospital for cataract surgery, a private hospital run by a Christian missionary, out ...
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• My Experience with Can-C Cataract Eye Drops

  
  Eye And Vision Care — Authority: 132
  Alternative treatments to cataract surgery is a subject that I am commited to exploring and have been doing just that since early 2009 when I started my blog. People who are afflicted with cataracts, or who have loved ones who are afflicted with it, often send me emails thanking me for creating a place where [...]
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• What Causes Cataracts?

  
  INTACTINFOs BLOG — Authority: 141
  Cataracts are a common condition where the lens inside the eye becomes cloudy. Because we look directly through the lens in order to see, this clouding can cause blurred vision. In the United States, cataracts are considered to be the major caus... Read and post comments | ...
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• What Causes Cataracts?

  
  Businessmusings — Authority: 142
  Cataracts are a common condition where the lens inside the eye becomes cloudy. Because we look directly through the lens in order to see, this clouding can cause blurred vision. In the United States, cataracts are considered to be the major cause of treatable vision loss. Cataract surgery Los Angeles is a treatment ...
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• Triamcinolone. Steroid injections. “… laser treatments can reduce the risk of vision loss, but the identification of other treatments remains desirable.”

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 132
  A report in the December issue of Archives of Ophthalmology , one of the JAMA / Archives journals, indicates: ‘ Injecting the corticosteroid triamcinolone into the eye may slow the progression of diabetic retinopathy, a complication of diabetes that can cause vision loss and blindness … ‘ A Media Release ...
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• Laos. “Imbalances in the geographical distribution of eye health professionals and cataract surgery decreased …”

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 132
  “To assess the geographical distribution of eye health professionals and cataract surgery procedures in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) over the last decade.” 1 Researchers from Department of Ophthalmology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, The WHO Collaborating Center for Prevention of ...
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• Engineer Left Blind for Three Years Awaiting 20-Minute Operation

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 464
  According to Britain’s state-managed health service, cataract surgery is a “common” and “straightforward” operation that usually should last between 15 and 20 minutes. But such a quick turnaround would have been news to Richard Adams of London, who went blind in both eyes while waiting three years for ...
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• Spotted - Shweta Tiwari at the hospital!

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  Now, now… don’t panic! Shweta Tiwari, one time famous as Prerna who is now a contestant of “Comedy Circus 3′ was reported to be seen playing the real life role of a dutiful daughter.She was at the hospital with her mother who was to undergo a cataract operation. Shweta, despite her hectic schedule took [...]
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• Changing patterns of global childhood blindness should be reassessed: Experts

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  Washington, Dec 8 (ANI): A team of eye specialists from India, Malawi, and Tanzania have revealed that patterns of childhood blindness have been changing and there is a need to reassess the strategies for recognition and treatment of the disease in developing countries.According to Paul Courtright (Kilimanjaro Centre ...
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• Now High Definition Technology For Eyesight

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 580
  Ophthalmic surgeons in the United Kingdom have begun a unique procedure, with which patients are now being retrofitted with a highly innovative artificial lens that provides the users with the benefits of high definition vision. The all new artificial lens is made entirely from silicone, which known to quite light ...
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• Reasons why health plans are called ‘dishonest’

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 140
  Nearly a third (30%) of respondents believe the recent demonization of health - insurance companies is due to the fact that few people understand the mechanism of health insurance . Robert Palmer, CEO, Dean Health Plan, believes the biggest reason insurers are seen as dishonest “is because politicians are ...
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• Eyes to get high definition artifical lens

  
  Gadget News and Reviews — Authority: 463
  Surgeons have managed to work on a new kind of artifical lens that can be implanted into the eyes using a standard procedure for cataracts, where these new artifical lens will offer high definition capability as they can be fine-tuned for focus a few days after the operation. that translates to vision that is sharper ...
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• Vision Harvest 2009: Free Cataract Surgery Program Reveals a Health Care System in Crisis

  
  The LASIK Blog — Authority: 114
  As I stated in my previous blog post, November 25 was the inaugural Vision Harvest free cataract surgery day at River Drive Surgery Center.  Twenty patients without insurance,or the means to pay, were provided free cataract surgery.  I promised to post interviews of many of these patients the day after their ...
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• Vision Harvest 2009 a Resounding Success: 20 Free Cataract Surgeries Performed

  
  The LASIK Blog — Authority: 114
  Wednesday, November 25 was the inaugural Vision Harvest free cataract surgery day at River Drive Surgery Center.  Twenty patients without insurance, or the means to pay, were provided free cataract surgery. These patients had some of the largest cataracts I have ever seen, something one might expect in a third ...
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• Nothing Worse Than A Blind Turkey

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 152
  Brother could you spare us a dime, we need $2,600 for our pet turkey to have it’s cataracts removed. Lyndsey Medeiros and her hubby adopted cataract debilitated Jerry and his mate from a Rhode Island farm a little while back  but sadly Jerry’s blurry vision prevents him from living a normal turkey lifestyle. The ...
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