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...
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by Bruce Brown | July 12, 2016 | General News, Medical
We’ve already seen strides in using artificial intelligence to help with healthcare tasks (see “IBM Watson Learns to See Medical Images” for one example). Now Google is taking aim at your eyes. Well, more precisely, Google DeepMind, a British...
by Alfred Poor | June 22, 2016 | General News, Medical
Today I learned that the “fundus” is the rounded back of the eyeball, opposite the pupil. And I learned that the thing that a doctor uses to peer into your eyeball is called a “funduscope.” It turns out that this is an important diagnostic...
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by Bruce Brown | April 26, 2016 | General News, Health
We might as well face it. Most of us spend a great amount of time daily looking at device screens. Computers, tablets, and smartphones are marvelous for all the access to information, communication, entertainment, and creative opportunities they present. What’s...
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by Bruce Brown | February 8, 2016 | General News, Health
According to a World Health Organization study in 2010, 285 million people suffered from visual impairment attributed to macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, retinitis pigmentosa, or other visual conditions. As our population...
