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World Glaucoma Day: How to preserve eye health

March 12, 2018 Urbanatural

Solid eyesight – and the ability to take in the visual world around us – is often something we take for granted. There’s no better time than World Glaucoma Day on March 12 and World Glaucoma Week in general, then, to take stock of your vision and learn how to spot the symptoms of glaucoma, which can lead to permanent eye damage. Glaucoma is an umbrella term encompassing several different eye diseases that damage the eye’s optic nerve, the nerve that transfers visual information from the retina to the brain.…

Gazing at smartphone in the dark may cause ‘blindness’

November 28, 2016 Urbanatural

New Delhi: This comes as a warning for all those who keep their smartphone devices next to them while sleeping and have a habit of gazing at their precious phones in the dark. Researchers have recently found two women who were affected by transient smartphone blindness. The first patient – a 22-year-old woman in England – had a habit of gazing at her smartphone before falling asleep. “She would lie on her left side and look at the screen primarily with her right eye. Her left eye was often…