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Mythbusted -- people who wear glasses aren't geeks

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 25, 2008 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Latest Australian research into myopia or shortsightedness reveals that people who wear glasses are not stereotypical geeks or nerds.


Medication slows progression of myopia in children

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 26, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Daily treatment with a medication called pirenzepine can slow the rate of progressive myopia, or nearsightedness, in children, reports a study in the August issue of the Journal of AAPOS (American Association for Pediatric Op ...


Sunlight could stop short-sightedness

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

A spreading pandemic of myopia among the world’s urban children may be avoided if children spend at least two to three hours each day outdoors.


Certain type of implanted lenses may be a treatment option for some patients with nearsightedness

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Implantable lenses made of a collagen-like substance appear to provide stable correction of moderate to high nearsightedness (myopia) over four years of follow-up, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Op ...


Researchers discover correlation between birth month and short-sightedness

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 26, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Planning for a summer delivery for your child? You might want to choose an ophthalmologist along with an obstetrician.


Kids with contact lenses like their looks better than kids with glasses

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Children wearing contact lenses felt better about how they look, their athletic abilities and acceptance by their friends than did children wearing eyeglasses in a recent study.


Study: Kids think eyeglasses make other kids look smart

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 12, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Young children tend to think that other kids with glasses look smarter than kids who don’t wear glasses, according to a new study. Children between the ages of 6 and 10 who were surveyed for the study also thought that kids ...


Study compares LASIK and LASEK eye surgery

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 21, 2006 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A study comparing the safety, effectiveness and reliability of LASIK and LASEK has found no clinically significant differences between the two types of laser eye surgery.


Lack of fuel may limit US nuclear power expansion

Technology / Energy

created Mar 20, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 0

Limited supplies of fuel for nuclear power plants may thwart the renewed and growing interest in nuclear energy in the United States and other nations, says an MIT expert on the industry.


Culture skews human evolution

Culture skews human evolution

Biology / Evolution

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- The rise of agriculture 10,000 years ago meant the end of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle for which human beings had been optimized by millions of years of evolution and the beginning of an ...


Astronomers Obtain Highly Detailed Image of the 'Red Square'

Astronomers Obtain Highly Detailed Image of the 'Red Square'

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 13, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (53) | comments 0

Astronomers today announced the arrival of a new member in the pantheon of exotically beautiful celestial objects. Christened the "Red Square" by Peter Tuthill, leader of the team, the image was compiled with ...


New approaches make retinal detachment highly treatable

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 26, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Retinal detachment, a condition that afflicts about 10,000 Americans each year, puts an individual at risk for vision loss or blindness. In a new study in today's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, a leading ophtha ...


Nanotech: Unpredictable And Un-Regulated - New Report From ETC Group

Nanotechnology /

created Jul 09, 2004 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The ETC Group releases a new Communiqué today that provides an update on policy discussions related to nanotech health and safety issues and the glaring lack of regulatory oversight. According to the ETC Group, governments ...