by Alfred Poor | October 18, 2016 | General News, Medical
The retina is a lining of nerve cells at the back of your eyeball that converts light into impulses that are transmitted to the brain via the optic nerve. If this fragile lining is damaged, your vision can be limited or lost completely. Many diseases and conditions...
by Alfred Poor | September 27, 2016 | General News, Medical
The eyes may be the windows to the soul, but they also can reveal important diagnostic information for conditions unrelated to eyesight. For example, hyperttension — high blood pressure — can cause bleeding in the back of the eyeball. The traditional...
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by Alfred Poor | September 4, 2014 | Medical
Doctors at the University of Southern California have developed a device that can help the blind see again. In much the same way that a cochlear implant can help deaf people hear, the Argus II directly stimulates the retina nerves at the back of the eyeball using an...
