UK's Brown denies he is steadily going blind

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Wednesday dismissed reports that he is slowly going blind, as a longtime critic in his governing Labour Party urged him to stand down as leader to save the party from a mauling at the next general election.

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Macular degeneration is on a long list of problems set to get worse as Australia's population ages, but a new treatment could prevent it.

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scientists say gene therapy may be on the edge of a resurgence.

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NASA technology that allows the Hubble telescope to focus on distant stars now offers LASIK eye surgery patients customized options for fine-tuned night vision, superior image contrast and sight even beyond 20/20.

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The boy relied on a cane and adults to guide him, and, unable to see blackboard writing, sat in back with a teacher's aide, large-type computer screen and materials in Braille.

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Some doctors' views about several popular "myths" regarding eye health are provided in this article.

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Gene therapy can be particularly effective in treating inherited sight problems in children, fresh trials show.

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A chip inside the eye that can help blind people see again is moving closer to reality as researchers at MIT work on a retinal implant that can bypass damaged cells and directly offer visual input to the brain.

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MIAMI - A 60-YEAR-OLD US grandmother, blind for nearly a decade, has recovered her sight after surgeons implanted a tooth in her eye as a base to hold a tiny plastic lens, her doctors said on Wednesday.

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"The flying eye hospital has visited 75 countries and saved the sight of tens of millions of people."

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Efforts to bring some of the most cutting-edge technologies to Wayne State University classrooms could violate the rights of blind students, lawyer and Board of Governors Chairman Richard Bernstein said today.

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A British serviceman blinded in combat will become the first UK patient to be fitted with revolutionary technology that enables users to see with their tongue.

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Malcolm Darby, 70, has worn thick 'jam jar' glasses his whole life now has perfect vision following a massive stroke, it has emerged.

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A blind man who complained to police about cars parking on a pavement was arrested when he threatened to let down the vehicles' tyres.

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Scientists genetically "reprogrammed" human skin cells to possess the same properties as those that make up the retina.

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A 10-year-old girl from Germany has had quite a normal life despite the fact that she was born with only half her brain. Even more surprising, she has almost perfect vision in one of her eyes.

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The Federal Government believes a significant number of Australians have the eye disease glaucoma, but are unaware of it.

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Twelve months after receiving an experimental gene therapy for a rare, inherited form of blindness, a patient discovered that she could read an illuminated clock in the family car for the first time in her life.

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A new type of medicated eye drop may be able to reverse symptoms of glaucoma, an Italian study has suggested.

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A new study claims male and female brains have evolved differently to meet differing ancient survival needs.

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One of my dogs, Virginia, went blind late last year. I knew it was coming; she has glaucoma, and lost sight in one of her eyes a while before. We'd been keeping the other eye alive with lots and lots of medicine, but the vet told us it was just a matter of time.

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Would President Obama have denied his elderly grandmother who he said he loved pain killers; surgery; medical procedures; and Rx drugs and had her counseled 3 x per day explaining how it's better to end her life or would he be willing to do the same along with all the seniors in  …

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Scientists have discovered how a 10-year-old girl born with half a brain is able to see normally through one eye. The youngster, from Germany, has both fields of vision in one eye and is the only known case of its kind in the world.

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Millions of people could have their eyesight saved thanks to ground-breaking laser treatment that has the potential to eradicate the most common cause of blindness.

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THE Rudd government's $50.7 million bionic eye program could push Australian scientists to the front of the race to develop artificial sight for humans.

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Australian scientists have found they can restore the sight of people with one damaged eye using contact lenses coated with stem cells from their healthy eye.

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