Sentences with phrase «of blindness in children»

The causes of blindness in children are varied, but cerebral visual impairment (damage to areas of the brain associated with vision) is among the most common.

Not exact matches

does that blindness possibly include your faith in a book compiled by dozens of people from thousands of years ago proclaiming to be the students of some dude who proclaimed to be the child of god?

Severe vitamin A deficiency results in blindness, and half of the roughly half - million children who are blinded by it die within a year.

Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of preventable blindness among children in developing countries.

«Since a large proportion of vitamin A — deficient children and their mothers reside in rice - consuming populations, particularly in Asia, Golden Rice should substantially reduce the prevalence and severity of vitamin A deficiency, and prevent at least hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths and cases of blindness every year,» said Dr. Alfred Sommer, professor and dean emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of childhood blindness, and also compromises the immune system, severely reducing the body's ability to ward off infections, especially in children.

Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of preventable blindness in children.

Eye injuries are the leading cause of blindness in American children, and most of those injuries happen when kids are playing sports.

«This revolutionary breakthrough to restore sight in children who are blind shows that investing in vision research over the long - term really can make miracles happen,» said Sharon Colle, President and CEO of The Foundation Fighting Blindness, the largest charity funding sight - saving research in Canada

Problems resulting from these deficiencies — such as blindness, anemia and death, particularly among children and women — are a major public health challenge,» said Dr. Saurabh Mehta, associate professor of global health, epidemiology and nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, and a senior author on this new research.

Between 2008 and 2011 Jean Bennett, a neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania, and her colleagues used gene therapy to treat blindness in 12 adults and children with Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA).

In Africa and Asia, where the bacterium spreads through hand - eye contact among children rather than sexual intimacy, it is a leading cause of blindness.

In addition, the vast majority of children who undergo fetal surgery are born prematurely and thus may be subject to higher rates of blindness, cerebral palsy, and brain hemorrhage.

The researchers found that mutations to a gene called ATF6, a key regulator of the unfolded protein response, can lead to achromatopsia, a hereditary visual disorder characterized by color blindness, decreased vision, light sensitivity, and uncontrolled eye movement in children.

Showing that the LCA2 gene therapy treatment works best in children is «a big step» for inherited blindness, says geneticist Frans Cremers of Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center in the Netherlands, who wrote an accompanying commentary in The Lancet.

Vitamin A deficiency is a major cause of blindness and death in children.

A Source: Eggs, milk, liver, fish, spinach, carrots, sweet potatoes Effects of deficiency: Weakened immune system, night blindness; hinders embryological development Who's at risk: Alcoholics, infants in poor countries with foods low in beta - carotene; people in Africa and Southeast Asia, where polished rice, which lacks the vitamin, is a staple Fortification options: Milk, oil, margarine Estimated millions of children affected: 140

In the early 1990s, Peter Beyer and I started on the problem of vitamin A deficiency causing child blindness and death.

Janssen GPH will also prioritise work with the International Partnership for Microbicides developing the investigational drug dapivirine for use as a monthly vaginal microbicidal ring designed to prevent sexual transmission of HIV and continue its pact with Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative for the preclinical research of a reformulated form of flubendazole for lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis) and onchocerciasis (river blindness), Janssen GPH is also developing a new, chewable formulation of Vermox (mebendazole) that will facilitate treatment of intestinal worms in younger children.

For his pioneering work in understanding the role of vitamin A supplementation in preventing blindness and life - threatening infections in children in the developing world.

Like 500,000 other children born in poor countries, her blindness is a result of vitamin A deficiency, a problem that could have been fixed by a diet adequate in vegetables such as carrots or tomatoes.

From his roots as a child in Florida, witnessing his brother drown before his eyes and suffering blindness as a result of Glaucoma, to his triumphant, genre - breaking career, the film juxtaposes Charles» personal struggles with his professional achievements, and screenwriter James L. White doesn't gloss over the less attractive aspects.

The resource packs offer activities, tools and inspiration for educators to teach young children about the dangers of smoking and the increased risk of blindness in later life including:

A child may be found eligible for special education and related services as a child with multiple disabilities if there is an adverse effect on the child's educational performance due to documented characteristics of multiple disabilities which are described as simultaneous impairments (Such as intellectual disability with blindness, intellectual disability with orthopedic impairment), the combination of which causes such severe educational needs that they can not be accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the impairments (this terms does not include deaf - blindness).

The IDEA officially defines the term as «concomitant [simultaneous] hearing and visual impairments, the combination of which causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational needs that they can not be accommodated in special education programs solely for children with deafness or children with blindness.»

Children can pick up infections from contaminated soil by putting their hands in their mouth after playing, although serious consequences of Toxocara infection in people is quite rare, these worms can cause blindness, heart problems and epilepsy in cChildren can pick up infections from contaminated soil by putting their hands in their mouth after playing, although serious consequences of Toxocara infection in people is quite rare, these worms can cause blindness, heart problems and epilepsy in childrenchildren.

Thie form of the disease can cause blindness — children are at most serious risk especially if play behavior is in an environment where dog, cat, or raccoon feces may be present... such as in a sandbox.

Intestinal parasites transmitted from dogs and cats to humans may result in scarring of the skin, or blindness, and are particularly of concern in children.

When a client sees the parasitic larva in the child's eye and understands that the number - one cause of childhood blindness in the world is parasites, such a photo can be a powerful motivator to consistently give monthly parasite preventive.

Among the ironies here was the impetus such political activity imparted to blocking the production of so - called «golden rice,» a nutritionally enhanced GM grain that public health advocates hailed for the contribution it could make to combating afflictions (including preventable blindness) in malnourished children in the developing world.

But a very real danger exists that this ruling might inform other actions by the judiciary in the Phillipines, and that has direct implications for «Golden Rice», a species of rice modified to include beta carotene, which could help supply vitamin A to the 190 million children and 19 million pregnant women in 122 countries who suffer vitamin A deficiency (VAD), a type of malnutrition that kills 1 — 2 million people a year and causes 500,000 cases of irreversible blindness.

Defense of Hoffmann - LaRoche in Massachusetts federal court action for child's blindness and hearing loss allegedly resulting from antibiotic

ROP is the most common cause of visual loss in children and it can lead to permanent vision impairment and blindness.