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As Dengue cases are soaring high in India, especially in the national capital; another dreadful aspect of it being able to cause loss of eyesight has been discovered. As explained by a research, published in the journal “Survey of Ophthalmology” some ordinary ocular expressions due to dengue are subconjunctival, edema and retinal hemorrhages with symptoms ranging from scotomata, floaters and ...

Jessica U. Meir of Caribou, Maine has been undergoing rigorous training as a member of NASA’s 2013 Astronaut Candidate Class and few years short of her childhood dream to go to space. If she completes her training successfully, she would be on Orion spacecraft to go to Mars in 2022. A graduate from Brown University, post-graduate from the International Space ...

A drug commonly taken to prevent seizures in epilepsy may also protect the eyesight of people with multiple sclerosis (MS), an auto-immune disease in which the body seemingly attacks itself, says a new study by an Indian-origin doctor. The epilepsy drug phenytoin can help prevent nerve damage and blindness in MS, the findings showed. “About half of people with MS ...

A new study by the scientists has discovered that the rewiring of the senses that occurs in the brains of the long-term blind means that visual restoration may never be complete. The scientists at the University of Montreal and the University of Trento reveal that surgery cannot completely undo the brain rewiring caused by long-term blindness. “We had the opportunity ...

More than his prime minister’s office, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first PM and the one who was in the office for the longest time from 1947 to 1964, is known to the country as an architect, visionary and a natural leader who commanded respect from the adults and love from the children. On the eve of swearing-in Independent India’s first ...

Vishal Sikka, former head of SAP AG, heading all SAP products and innovation is the latest choice of Infosys while Narayana Murthy said he would step down after a brief stint. Sikka, who grew up in Vadodara, graduated in computer engineering at M S University, Baroda and moved to Stanford University in the US for his doctoral program. After his ...