medicalcondition:blindness

Diabetic Retinopathy Detection
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Among individuals with diabetes, the prevalence of diabetic retinopathy is approximately 28.5% in the United 12 States and 18% in India. Globally, the number of people with DR will grow from 126.6 million in 2010 to 191.0 million by 2030. This disease is one of the most frequent causes of visual impairment in developed countries and is the leading cause of new cases of blindness in the working age population.Altogether, nearly 75 people go blind every day as a consequence of DR even though treatment is available.Diabetic retinopathy is a complication of diabetes, caused by high blood sugar levels damaging the back of the eye (retina). It can cause blindness if left undiagnosed and untreated. When left untreated, diabetic retinopathy damages your retina. This is the lining at the back (...)

#data #machine-learning #data-science #diabetic-retinopathy #retinopathy-detection

The doctor responsible for gene therapy’s greatest setback is sounding a new alarm - MIT Technology Review
►https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610141/the-doctor-responsible-for-gene-therapys-greatest-setback-is-sound

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To attack the disease, researchers replace patients’ damaged copies of a gene called dystrophin by introducing viral particles that carry a correct copy. Reaching the countless muscle cells in a boy’s body requires extremely high doses of these particles—400 trillion or more per pound of body weight.

That’s where the danger could come in, says Wilson. At those doses, he says, his team found that two different viruses caused extreme and sudden immunological effects, including damage to the liver and blood vessels.

[...] The general type of #virus implicated, called an AAV, is widely used and considered safe. More than 2,000 people have been treated with AAVs, which have been used in successful tests of gene-therapy treatments for hemophilia and blindness.

Thanks to those successes, gene therapy has been racing forward, building toward ever more dramatic cures. The latest tests move into unknown territory because they involve much higher doses (which are needed to reach muscles or brain cells) and because the subjects are children.

#thérapie_génique #myopathie

Using Israeli data, study finds rubber bullets cause significant fatalities | The Times of Israel
▻https://www.timesofisrael.com/using-israeli-data-study-finds-rubber-bullets-cause-significant-fatal

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A total of 1984 people were injured, they found, of whom 53 (three percent) died.

“Some 300 (15.5 percent) of all survivors were left with permanent disability as a direct result of the rubber bullet impact they sustained — usually to the head and neck,” the team said in statement.

“Blindness, and removal of the spleen, or a section of the bowel as a result of abdominal injuries, accounted for most of this disability.”

Also known as kinetic impact projectiles (KIPs) or rubber baton rounds, rubber or plastic bullets were introduced by the British army in the 1970s for use against rioters in Northern Ireland, deployed against South African protesters in the 1980s, and adopted by the security forces of #Israel and further afield.

#victimes_civiles #civils

FORSAKING THE SYRIAN REVOLUTION : AN ANTI-IMPERIALIST HANDBOOK
Fadi A. Bardawil

The Left had no qualms cheering the revolutions when they were targeting US supported regimes such as Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain. When it got to Syria though, the support vanished. It was replaced by a blindness to the plight of Syrians and a deafness to their suffering. Syria signaled, a second divorce, analogous to Césaire’s earlier one between Metropolitan Leftist politics and the struggle for emancipation in the peripheries. This time around it is not the divorce of anti-colonial struggles from their subordination to the centrality of class struggle. It is the divorce of struggles against the postcolonial Authoritarian Arab State from their subordination to Metropolitan geo-political considerations.

#Syrie #gauche #anti-colonialisme #Césaire #révolution #Assad

▻http://aljumhuriya.net/en/syrian-revolution/forsaking-the-syrian-revolution-a-metropolitan-anti-imperialist-handboo

La saillance et le discours sur le #relief

Samia Ounoughi
La saillance et le discours sur le relief [Texte intégral]
Une introduction
Salience and Relief-Related Discourse [Texte intégral | traduction]
An introduction
Aurélie Tremblet
Du Sublime de la montagne chez #Philip_James_de_Loutherbourg et #Joseph_Mallord_William_Turner [Texte intégral]
The Mountain Sublime of Philip James de Loutherbourg and Joseph Mallord William Turner [Texte intégral | traduction]
Laurence Roussillon-Constanty
La #topographie selon #Ruskin : saillance du visible et du lisible dans Modern Painters [Texte intégral]
Of Ruskinian Topography : Visible and Legible Salience in Modern Painters [Texte intégral | traduction]
André Dodeman
L’ascension de l’artiste dans The Mountain and the Valley (1952) d’#Ernest_Buckler [Texte intégral]
The Ascent of the Artist in Ernest Buckler’s The Mountain and the Valley (1952) [Texte intégral | traduction]
Alexandra Baudinault
« Relief » et « montagne » : les enseignants de l’école élémentaire confrontés à la mise en mots et en images de la saillance [Texte intégral]
“Relief” and “Mountains” : Primary School Teachers Confronted with Discursive and Visual Framing of Salience [Texte intégral | traduction]
Marie-Dominique Garnier
Saillance et #cécité : parcours haptique sur le #Mont_Gins [Texte intégral]
Sur HelenKeller Or Arakawa de Madeline Gins
Salience and Blindness : A Haptic Hike on Gins Mountain [Texte intégral | traduction]
A Reading of Madeline Gins’s Helen Keller or Arakawa

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#art #peinture
#revue #Alpes #montagne

Smartphone use in the dark linked to temporary blindness in 2 cases
▻http://mashable.com/2016/06/23/temporary-blindness-tied-to-smartphones/#wUKUpGc1Ckqw

In Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine, doctors detailed the cases of the two women, ages 22 and 40, who experienced “transient smartphone blindness” for months.

The women complained of recurring episodes of temporary vision loss for up to 15 minutes. They were subjected to variety of medical exams, MRI scans and heart tests. Yet doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with them to explain the problem.

But minutes after walking into an eye specialist’s office, the mystery was solved.

“I simply asked them, ’What exactly were you doing when this happened?’” recalled Dr. Gordon Plant of Moorfield’s Eye Hospital in London.

He explained that both women typically looked at their smartphones with only one eye while resting on their side in bed in the dark — their other eye was covered by the pillow.
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He said the temporary blindness was ultimately harmless, and easily avoidable, if people stuck to looking at their smartphones with both eyes.

Half of South Africa’s 100 000 blind children could have been saved if they were treated earlier, shows a new report
▻http://mg.co.za/article/2013-09-05-no-child-should-go-blind

Quick statistics from the report “Child Eye Health in Africa”:

– Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest prevalence of childhood blindness in the world, with 1.24 blind children per 1 000 children, compared to 0.8 in India and 0.3 in Europe.
– In 2012, there were more than 100 000 children in South Africa who are blind or reported to have severe visual impairments.
– The World Health Organisation estimates that 80% of blindness in adults and around 60% in children globally could be prevented.
– It is estimated at least half of blind children in South Africa would still have their sight if their eye problems were identified and treated in time.
– Untreated cataracts are the leading cause of blindness in children in South Africa.

#aveugles #afrique_du_sud #santé #inégalités

Brazil develops ’superfoods’ to combat hidden hunger | Global development | guardian.co.uk
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/jul/18/brazil-superfoods-hunger

Biofortification uses conventional plant-breeding methods to enhance the concentration of micronutrients in food crops through a combination of laboratory and agricultural techniques.

The goal is to combat micronutrient deficiencies, which can cause severe health problems such as anaemia, blindness, impaired immune response and development delays. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, micronutrient malnutrition affects 2 billion people globally.

Paradoxal pour un pays dont l’économie est largement fondée sur l’agriculture ! Ah oui mais avant de nourrir sa population, il faut nourrir le bétail voué à l’exportation et produire des agrocarburants, voilà.
#faim #alimentation #Brésil

Legal effort over injured American seeks compensation of Israel
►http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-israel-activist-lawsuit-20111211,0,5969565.story

Tristan Anderson visited Israel and the West Bank in 2009 with his girlfriend, a Jewish American activist, to participate in pro-Palestinian demonstrations and see the Mideast conflict firsthand.

The Oakland man left with brain damage, partial paralysis and blindness in one eye after being hit in the head with a high-velocity tear-gas canister during a protest against Israel’s separation barrier in the West Bank village of Nilin.

Now Anderson, 40, and his parents are pressing the Israeli government to pay for his rehabilitation and 24-hour care in a multimillion-dollar civil lawsuit.