http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Implementing a routine national glaucoma screening program for middle-age African American patients may be clinically effective; however its potential effect on reducing visual impairment and blindness may be modest, according to a computer-based mathematical model reported in the March issue of Archives of Ophthalmology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-routine-glaucoma-screening-benefit-middle-age.html Ophthalmology Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:00:07 EST news250779451