Don’t let your FSA Benefits slip away. Use your Flex Plan Dollars before December 31. If you participate in a Flexible Spending Account (FSA), a “Cafeteria Plan ” or other healthcare savings program through your company benefits program, time may be running out. Some plans require the money you contribute to be spent by … Continue reading Don’t let your FSA Benefits slip away!
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Blindness isn’t the most popular topic. Most likely, you’re already wanting to scroll past this page. As soon as you reach a certain age, though, the topic becomes quite fascinating. Why? Because of things like age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which lead to blindness, especially in its “wet” form. It’s worse than a wet handshake. AMD … Continue reading BLINDNESS LOSES TO A GRAIN OF RICE
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Over the past 20 years, the words LASIK, Amazon, Uber, Facebook, and Twitter have entered our lexicon. The word LASIK, though, has become a fixture. And it’s no wonder. Over the years, tens of millions of procedures have been done in the US. It’s probably 100 million worldwide. It’s quick, effective, and doctors even perform … Continue reading WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU HAD LASIK, BUT NOW HAVE CATARACTS?
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Retina in vitro? Seriously? Perhaps we will live to see the technology shown in Minority Report, where the hero played by Tom Cruise gets eye implants. It won’t happen tomorrow, though. In the meantime, Johns Hopkins is growing an important part of this technology in their laboratories. But we shouldn’t celebrate prematurely. Artificial retinas cannot … Continue reading THE GREEN/BROWN HAT, OR RETINAS IN VITRO
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We’re going to immediately divulge the secret – a child will want to read if they’re told that their favorite toy has read the same thing before. But first, a bit about the advantages of having literate children. For some parents, the benefits aren’t obvious. A LOT VERSUS A LITTLE – IS THERE A … Continue reading HOW DO YOU KNOW A CHILD CAN READ? POINT AT A TOY
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A group of scientists in Nature Communications wrote that glaucoma is based on an immunological breakdown. Scientists observed mice with glaucoma that had a lower intraocular pressure. It turns out that there were a lot of T-cells in their retinas. Usually, these cells cannot get in there, but somehow they penetrated. Are they to blame … Continue reading AUTOIMMUNE SENSATION – GLAUCOMA AS IT IS
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Sugar has never tortured humanity the way it does right now. Either we’ve become more sensitive to it, or we’ve been bound as “hostages” by the “conspirators”. There’s an opinion that we only taste 20% of the sugar that’s in our food. The rest goes from the stomach and into the bloodstream unnoticed. There, sugar … Continue reading PROGRESS MADE, OR THE END OF “THE SUGAR CONSPIRACY”
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The retina is kind of a portal to your brain. According to new data, Alzheimer’s can show itself through some eye diseases that affect the retina. There are so many people on Earth with dementia that they could start their own country. 46 million. In another 30 years, the population of that country will swell … Continue reading WHAT DOES YOUR RETINA SAY ABOUT YOU
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A heat wave: should we drink warm or cold liquids? In the East, they drink green tea on one side and ayran on the other. One theory says that heating yourself from the inside causes you to sweat. This cools you. Another opinion intuitively advises to avoid warm liquid. They say it’s dehydrating. If you believe … Continue reading A HEAT WAVE: WHAT WORKS AND WHAT DOESN’T
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Surprising fact – the simplest of parasites, that which causes toxoplasmosis, affects the proclivity for business and risky behavior in business transactions. This discovery was made by Colorado scientists. They were studying the connection between Toxoplasma gondii and behavior. You can catch this valuable protozoa through poorly-cooked meats, dirty water, or contact with the feces … Continue reading TOXOPLASMOSIS AS AN ENGINE OF PROGRESS
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