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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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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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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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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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BMJ, 2003 Half of it is avoidable, and suitable cost effective interventions are available Childhood blindness is a priority of “Vision 2020—the Right to Sight,” a global initiative for the elimination of avoidable blindness (http://www.v2020.org/), although only 1.4m blind children are included in the worldwide total of 45m blind people.1 2 There are several ...
Gilbert, Clare, Awan, Haroon
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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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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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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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