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Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
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Delisting Routine Eye Exams From Health Plan Resulted In Fewer Necessary Eye Exams For Patients With Diabetes
The delisting of routine eye exams from the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) for healthy adults under age 65 has resulted in lower rates of recommended eye screening for people with diabetes, states a study published in CMAJ - even though eye exams for people with diabetes are still covered (Canadian Medical Association Journal)...
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Why Is Perceiving Faces Harder For Patients With Age-Related Macular Degeneration?
Researchers have recently identified why it is that adults with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) have trouble recognizing and identifying people's faces, they believe that it could largely be due to abnormal eye movement patterns and fixations associated with the condition. The findings come from a study published in the January issue of Optometry and Vision Science...
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Decrease In Government-Funded Eye Exams For Diabetics In Ontario
A new study has found that adults with diabetes in Ontario are getting significantly fewer government-funded eye exams than they were a decade ago, a key component of high-quality diabetes care essential to preventing diabetes-related eye complications...
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Age-Related Macular Degeneration And Facial Recognition
Abnormalities of eye movement and fixation may contribute to difficulty in perceiving and recognizing faces among older adults with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), suggests a study "Abnormal Fixation in Individuals with AMD when Viewing an Image of a Face" appearing in the January issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry...
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Researchers Describe Protein Essential For Healthy Eyes
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in collaboration with researchers at the Salk Institute in California, have found for the first time that a specific protein is essential not only for maintaining a healthy retina in the eye, but also may have implications for understanding and possibly treating other conditions in the immune, reproductive, vascular and nervou...
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