India has eliminated Trachoma as a public health problem in 2024, declares WHO

Oct 09, 2024, at 02:35 pm

World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared that the Government of India has eliminated Trachoma as a public health problem becoming the third country in the South-East Asia Region to achieve this milestone.

New study confirms Mediterranean diet prevents a leading cause of blindness

Oct 02, 2018, at 03:19 pm

New York, Oct 2 (IBNS): Evidence is mounting that a poor diet plays an important role in the development of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness in the United States. A large collaboration of researchers from the European Union investigating the connection between genes and lifestyle on the development of AMD has found that people who adhered to a Mediterranean diet cut their risk of late-stage AMD by 41 percent.

Cases of blindness to rise to 115 million by 2050, finds study

Aug 05, 2017, at 02:14 am

London, Aug 4 (IBNS):The number of cases of blindness is predicted to rise to 115 million by 2050, according to new research published in The Lancet Global Health.