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Eye exercises help patients work out vision problems, UH optometrist says

Eye exercises help patients work out vision problems

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 2

You've probably been there. In a doctor's office, being advised to do what you dread - exercise. You get that feeling in your gut, acknowledging that, indeed, you should exercise but probably won't. Now imagine ...





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U of T research finds glycine could be key to REM Sleep Behavior Disorder

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 27, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

There is new promise on the horizon for those who suffer from REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder (RBD) according to researchers at the University of Toronto.


Here's venom in your eye: Spitting cobras hit their mark

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created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Spitting cobras have an exceptional ability to spray venom into eyes of potential attackers. A new study published in Physiological and Biochemical Zoology reveals how these snakes maximize their chances of hitting the ta ...


Researchers identify gene associated with muscular dystrophy-related vision problems

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Skeletal muscle disease and vision deficits might seem unrelated, but a frog model of muscular dystrophy shows it is not such a leap.


Eye muscles -- those go-getters of the anatomical world

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 01, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The eye, often called the window to the soul, may become a window to the mysteries of muscular dystrophy, a debilitating muscle disease that often leads to death in early adulthood.


Fresh fossil evidence of eye forerunner uncovered

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 12, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Ancient armoured fish fossils from Australia present some of the first definite fossil evidence of a forerunner to the human eye, a scientist from The Australian National University says.


I there but caught a glimpse... of a 410 million-year-old eye or two

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 06, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (20) | comments 0

A University of Queensland researcher has uncovered the oldest known fossilised eye capsules from jawed fishes.


Infantile esotropia linked to developmental delays

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created Apr 17, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Babies with an eye-alignment disorder called infantile esotropia have delays in motor development milestones, but development “catches up” after corrective surgery, reports a study in the April Journal of AAPOS (American ...


Sticky protein helps reinforce fragile muscle membranes

Sticky protein helps reinforce fragile muscle membranes

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created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study by scientists at the University of Iowa shows why muscle membranes don't rupture when healthy people exercise.


Superfast muscles in songbirds

Superfast muscles in songbirds

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created Jul 09, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Certain songbirds can contract their vocal muscles 100 times faster than humans can blink an eye – placing the birds with a handful of animals that have evolved superfast muscles, University of Utah researchers ...


Genetic mutation identified for eye complaint

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created Jul 24, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

An international research collaboration including research teams from the Children's Hospital in Boston (USA), King's College London and the Peninsula Medical School, has identified a gene that, when mutated, causes Duane ...



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