http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—Surveys regularly reveal that, when asked about their greatest fear, people nominate blindness as one of the two things they dread most (cancer being the other). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-pain-neck.html Health Fri, 05 Apr 2013 06:50:02 EST news284362728 The most advanced technology for use in real-time detection and assessment of common blinding eye disease and general health disorders will soon be available to the world with stimulus funding provided for development by the Australian Government's CRC Program. The imaging technology of the breakthrough retinal camera is being developed by the Vision Cooperative Research Centre (Vision CRC) based in Sydney with international partners in Australia, US, China, India and Africa. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-breakthrough-camera-eye-disease-diabetes.html Ophthalmology Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:57:18 EST news281102230 Australia remains the only developed country in the world not to have eliminated trachoma, the leading cause of infectious blindness, despite recent progress in tackling the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-curable-eye-disease-rife-indigenous.html Ophthalmology Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:41:46 EST news281086895 (HealthDay)—The prevalence of open-angle glaucoma has increased more than 20 percent in the last 10 years and currently affects more than 2.7 million Americans age 40 years and older, according to a report from Prevent Blindness America and the National Eye Institute. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-open-angle-glaucoma-percent-years.html Ophthalmology Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:51:54 EST news276277617 People with mild vascular disease that causes damage to the retina in the eye are more likely to have problems with thinking and memory skills because they may also have vascular disease in the brain, according to a study published in the March 14, 2012, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-eye-health-brain.html Neuroscience Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:00:02 EST news250952963 Presently Indigenous Australians suffer six times the blindness of mainstream Australians and 94 percent of vision loss in Indigenous Australians is unnecessary, preventable or treatable. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-million-gap-treatable-australian-indigenous.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:17:28 EST news249211041 A new analysis of recent eye health studies shows that more time spent outdoors is related to reduced rates of nearsightedness, also known as myopia, in children and adolescents. Myopia is much more common today in the United States and many other countries than it was in the 1970s. In parts of Asia, more than 80 percent of the population is nearsighted. The analysis suggests that more exposure to natural light and/or time spent looking at distant objects may be key factors. Today at the 115th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology Dr. Anthony Khawaja of the University of Cambridge, will present a summary analysis of the evidence. The analysis was led by Dr. Justin Sherwin of the University of Cambridge. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-outdoors-kids-nearsightedness.html Health Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:51:23 EST news238668665