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Parasites & Vectors, 2014 Background Abu Hamed, the northernmost onchocerciasis focus in the world, is located along the River Nile banks in the Nubian Desert. Hydroelectric dams can alter activity of black flies and may provide breeding sites for black fly.
Isam MA Zarroug +8 more
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Journal of Global Health, 2018 Background Cataract is the second leading cause of visual impairment and the first of blindness globally. However, for the most populous country, China, much remains to be understood about the scale of cataract and cataract blindness.
Peige Song +4 more
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Malaria Journal, 2017 Ivermectin mass drug administration (MDA) in humans to reduce malaria vectors is yet another use for this remarkable medicine whose discoverers shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine with the discoverer of artemisinin.
Frank O. Richards
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Illegal wildlife trade and the persistence of “plant blindness”
Plants, People, Planet, 2019 A wide variety of plant species are threatened by illegal wildlife trade (IWT), and yet plants receive scant attention in IWT policy and research, a matter of pressing global concern. This review examines how “plant blindness” manifests within policy and
Jared D. Margulies +9 more
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Challenging behaviour in an adult male with congenital deaf-blindness: analysis and intervention
Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2009 People with severe congenital disabilities have been assessed on negatives, on what they do not have. Skill training and education of these missing abilities have been the major focus for the habilitation since emergence of the normalization ideology in ...
Karl Jacobsen +2 more
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Human Resources for Health, 2020 Background This study compares perspectives on specialized ophthalmic medical institutions, identifies the gaps in property and geographic offerings, and explores the ways that ophthalmic medical institutions can better allocate resources. The results of
Leilei Zhan +6 more
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A fully organic retinal prosthesis restores vision in a rat model of degenerative blindness
Nature Materials, 2017 The degeneration of photoreceptors in the retina is one of the major causes of adult blindness in humans. Unfortunately, no effective clinical treatments exist for the majority of retinal degenerative disorders.
J. F. Maya-Vetencourt +21 more
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Development of a patient-derived xenograft model of glioblastoma via intravitreal injection in mice
Experimental and Molecular Medicine, 2019 Brain cancer: A clearer view of glioblastoma An improved strategy for cultivating patient-derived tumors in mice gives researchers a faster, more accurate means for testing glioblastoma treatments.
Jooyoung Lee +13 more
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Heliyon, 2023 Introduction: Pterygium is a common multifactorial external eye disease, which causes various ocular symptoms and negatively affects appearance. The aim of this study was to analyze the epidemiological characteristics and the change of surgical methods ...
Jingyi Wang +8 more
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Eye health for all by the year 2000 in Nepal
Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2013 na
BD Chataut
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