Modern eye hospital to come up in
Delhi
The
Delhi government will set up an ultra-modern eye hospital to prevent cases of
blindness, a minister said Thursday. There are around 1.85 lakh blind people in
Delhi, of whom 1,14,250 suffer from cataract. ”Of the 90,000 eye patients who
are able to get operated, 50 percent come from outside Delhi. It is a big
challenge for health planners,” said Health Minister A.K. Walia. These
conditions have created the need for another eye hospital so that the growing
demand for eye treatment is effectively met, he said while inaugurating 13th
Motiabind Mukti Abhiyan (MMA) at Guru Nanak Eye Hospital.
The
government already runs two eye hospitals in the city — Guru Nanak Eye Centre
and Attar Sen Jain Eye and General Hospital. Under the programme, 39 designated
hospitals and 500 referral centres in government, private and NGO sectors will
be screening and registering cataract patients till Friday. They will be
operated for free at designated referral hospitals.
The
minister said since the inception of MMA, 4.03 lakh patients have been screened
and about 43,747 cases have been successfully operated. Delhi’s rural areas
have been specifically covered as it harbours nearly one third of blinds. There
is a strong need to rope in more cataract patients under the ambit of surgical
operation, he said.
Source: http://health.india.com
30.11.2012
Seeing
someone scratch makes you feel itchy too
If
you feel itchy when you see someone scratch an itch, you’re not suffering from
any disorder.
A
study, published in the British Journal of Dermatology, has suggested that
seeing someone scratch an itch could make you feel itchy too.
Researchers
at Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Manchester looked at
whether images such as those of others scratching or ants crawling on skin,
made people scratch.
They
asked 30 people how they felt looking at these and “non-itch” images - and
found visual cues did provoke a “scratch response”.
And,
in particular, it was watching another person scratching - rather than seeing
the cause of an itch - that made people feel itchy themselves.
Experts
said the work could help understand skin disorders.
“The
results suggest that, whereas the sensation of itch may be effectively
transmitted by viewing others experiencing itch-related stimuli on the body,
the desire to scratch is more effectively provoked by viewing others
scratching,” the BBC quoted Prof Francis McGlone, a cognitive neuroscientist at
Liverpool John Moores University, who led the study, as saying.
“Our
findings may help to improve the efficiency of treatment programmes for people
suffering from chronic itch,” he added.
Another
study, recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
used brain scans to show the same parts of the brain are activated when
watching someone else scratch an itch as when someone does it themselves.
That
team, including experts from Hull University, suggested that the activation of
these areas could explain itching disorders where there is no physical cause.
“It
was particularly interesting to see that contagious itch is not only elicited
by observing someone scratching,” said lead researcher Dr Henning Holle, of
Hull University.
“Simply
seeing potentially itchy stimuli, for instance ants crawling on the ground,
seems to be enough to induce feelings of itchiness in one's own body.
“This
suggests that a process of motor mimicking alone cannot explain contagious
itch,” Dr Holle added.
Source: www.timesofindia.com
30.11.2012
You
can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat
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