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International Journal of Retina and Vitreous, 2020 Background Many factors can influence the functional outcomes of macular hole surgery and some studies have tried to describe anatomical features that could predict successful treatment.
Oswaldo Ferreira Moura Brasil +9 more
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Neural correlates of motion-induced blindness in the human brain [PDF]
, 2010 Motion-induced blindness (MIB) is a visual phenomenon in which highly salient visual targets spontaneously disappear from visual awareness (and subsequently reappear) when superimposed on a moving background of distracters. Such fluctuations in awareness
Rees, G. +5 more
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Eye conditions and blindness in children: priorities for research, programs, and policy with a focus on childhood cataract. [PDF]
, 2012 The major causes of blindness in children encompass intrauterine and acquired infectious diseases, teratogens and developmental and molecular genetics, nutritional factors, the consequences of preterm birth, and tumors.
Mohammed Muhit +3 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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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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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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Using primary health care (PHC) workers and key informants for community based detection of blindness in children in Southern Malawi. [PDF]
, 2012 BACKGROUND: There is great interest in providing primary eye care (PEC) through integration into primary health care (PHC). However, there is little evidence of the productivity of PHC workers in offering primary eye care after training and integration ...
Gilbert, Clare +11 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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