Modest drinking likely to benefit post-menopausal women
...king phase, each lasting three weeks. Men had four glasses of beer or near-beer with their dinner, served at TNO, while women drank three glasses. Ten days into the drinking phase, HDL-cholesterol levels in subjects' blood samples rose by an average of nearly 7 percent and were up almost 12 percent by the en...United States to host World Sight Day celebration October 10
...ct and glaucoma screenings, collection of used eye glasses for recycling, and distribution of educational material, have been held on six continents. "Few Americans realize that blindness is a major and increasing problem in the United States," said J. Frank Moore III, chairman, Lions Clubs International F...Inaccurate arsenic test kits jeopardize water safety in Bangladesh and India
...labeled wells. One villager reportedly brought two glasses of water for testing to field workers who had labeled the wells; one glass was declared safe by the workers and the other was declared unsafe. The villagers then proceeded to assault the workers, Chakraborti says. Both samples had apparently been tak...Study provides new evidence that cranberry juice may help fight heart disease
...tudies, researchers have found that drinking three glasses a day significantly raises levels of "good cholest...nces) of juice a day for the first month, then two glasses a day for the next month, and three glasses a day during the third month of the study. Subjects were...Racial, economic disparities seen in kids' vision care
...ers find that about a quarter of all children wear glasses or other corrective lenses, and that about the sam...t recently, and are 41 percent more likely to wear glasses or lenses. But the bigger differences between groups emerged when the researchers looked at vision ...Gel put springiness back into old lenses
...re younger people who are starting to need reading glasses will adopt it as well." The eye's lens focuses by changing shape. When muscles in the eye relax, the lens is pulled flat to focus on distant objects. When they contract, the lens returns to a fatter shape, bringing closer objects into focus. But as ...Millions turn a blind eye to dangerous driving
... and asked what they thought about contact lenses, glasses and laser eye surgery. 35% of the people who took part in the study failed a basic Snellen Chart test (the standard eyesight test used by opticians). Remarkably, 33% of the failures said they were "not surprised". That is, they had taken a conscious...What type of lens is best after cataract surgery multifocal or monofocal? It depends, study says
...nses depends on patients' motivation to be free of glasses and contact lenses and on their having realistic e...otivation on the part of the patient to be free of glasses and contact lenses. The patient must consciously accept a reduction in the quality of vision in orde...Lens replacement material holds prospect of 'young' eyes for people over 40
.... The current solution for most people is reading glasses or contacts. Even people who undergo corrective laser surgery often still need glasses for reading and up close focusing. "Our idea is that if we can remove the lens and put in a material...NASA research propels development of new glass
... communications. "We have patented a family of new glasses and have established processes for making and using them in practical applications," said Dr. Richard (Rick) Weber, director of the Glass Products Division of Containerless Research Inc., the small company that invented and produces the glass in Evan...Heavy alcohol consumption linked to colorectal cancer
...esearchers report that people who drink at least 9 glasses of alcoholic beverages made with distilled spirits... and of 17.4 percent of those who drank at least 9 glasses per week of spirits for more than 10 years. After adjusting for age, sex, family history, smoking, d...Shape of beverage glass influences how much people pour and drink
... into glasses. They will pour more into short wide glasses than into tall slender glasses, but perceive the o... 76.4 percent more orange juice in the short, wide glasses than in the tall glasses (9.7 ounces versus 5.5 ounces). Although the girls poured less juice in the...Surgeons offer new treatment for degenerative eye disease
... occur, which we can treat with the use of special glasses or occasionally with additional muscle surgery." Age appears to be the main risk factor for developing AMD. According to the researchers, a person's chance of developing the disease increases with each passing decade after age 50, with 30 percent of ...Sound helps augment poor vision for some tasks
...to help their visual system. "If people keep their glasses off and use their ears to help them locate things, they might be surprised at how well they would do," said Wallace. Wallace said the findings support an emerging idea in neuroscience that if one sensory system isn't performing well, the brain can...Medical experts say cataract and refractive surgeries merging
...lines. Multifocal IOLs for Presbyopia "Unlike glasses or contact lenses, the multifocal IOL provides two focal ranges at the same time," said Roger Steinert, MD, associate professor of ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School. "The downside is that contrast sensitivity is somewhat compromised." In studies ...7-month-old is youngest recipient of artificial corneal transplant
...ll allow. Some vision may be further improved with glasses or even with contact lenses fit over the prosthesis. In the case of infants, such as Lukas, the conjunctiva can't be used since it is vital that light enter the eye as soon as possible to avoid amblyopia (lazy eye), which is caused by lack of vis...Advice for designing reliable nanomaterials
...ometer-scale building blocks into exotic ceramics, glasses and other types of customized materials. "Not all properties may benefit from microstructural refinement, so due caution needs to be exercised in materials design," writes the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Brian Lawn in the...Research news from Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy: March 2004
...ng at Tufts found that women who drank more than 2 glasses per week of any type of alcohol (beer, wine or dis...rm, cortical opacities, women who drank morethan 2 glasses of wine or distilled spirits were less likely to develop a cortical opacity. The different effects ...Racial, economic gaps in kids' eye care seen in four new studies
... some expenses, parents find themselves paying for glasses that their children like better than the covered ones, or for replacements when glasses break or contact lenses get lost," he explains. "At the same time, there's no clear definition of wh...Prototype system developed by Wright State computer engineer allows blind to 'see'
... ASU is called iLearn. A tiny camera is mounted to glasses and connected by a thin wire to a modified lap-top computer the individual carries on his or her back. The Tyflos system operates by identifying the images "seen" by the camera and converting this to audio information the subject hears from small w...