In helping to restore the sight of millions, Gabi Hollows is continuing where her late husband Fred left off, writes Steve Dow.

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An Australian woman is blind three days out of every six because her eyes involuntarily shut and she cannot open them, a report has said.

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They injected material containing a corrective gene into the eyes of three patients with Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA). The journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports all three showed signs of "significant" improvement in their vision. More Articles

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An experimental transplant of cells into the eyes of patients with failing sight improved vision in most of them, US researchers say. The retinal cells, taken from aborted foetuses, were implanted into 10 people with retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration.

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Another sign the economy is slowing: Call it the Lasik indicator. With the weak economy forcing consumers to cut back on discretionary spending, the number of laser vision-correction surgeries has been falling — as it did during the last recession.

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Most people I know believe that it's better to order weaker glasses than were prescribed because the correct prescription weakens your eyes even more and results in your needing a stronger prescription down the line. Is that true?

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Working with other colleagues in the EU-funded CORNEA project, research scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam and the Department of Ophthalmology at the University Hospital of Regensburg have found a solution.

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Planning for a summer delivery for your child? You might want to choose an ophthalmologist along with an obstetrician.

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Safety glasses worn by carpenters to protect their eyes may not perform as advertised, researchers at the Illinois College of Optometry report in a study.

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Stanford ophthalmologist Michael Marmor created computer simulations to show how artists with eye disease actually saw their canvases.

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Apparently soft contact lenses can lead to eye fungus. Who knew? Cases of Fusarium, a fungal infection of the eye that may have been related to Bausch and Lomb's ReNu MoistureLoc eye cleanser, are on the rise, according to an article in the Archives of Ophthalmology this month.

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