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Do you wear glasses? If so, a new study claims that you are more than likely very intelligent. Check out these smart famous glasses wearers: Researchers at the University Medical Center in Germany ...
Woman over 50 reading a book without needing glasses. Glasses can be a fashion statement—even people with perfect vision might don a pair just for fun.
PAM is one of the rare lung diseases currently being studied by the Rare Lung Diseases Consortium. Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis patients, families, and caregivers are encouraged to join the NIH Rare Lung Diseases Consortium Contact Registry. This is a privacy protected site that provides up-to-date information for individuals interested in ...
One mitigation is to provide an easy way for people to self-designate as having an invisible disability, and for organizations to have processes in place to assist those so self-designating. An example of this is the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower , initially launched in the UK in 2016 but now gaining some international recognition as well. [ 23 ]
Micropsia is a condition affecting human visual perception in which objects are perceived to be smaller than they actually are. Micropsia can be caused by optical factors (such as wearing glasses), by distortion of images in the eye (such as optically, via swelling of the cornea or from changes in the shape of the retina such as from retinal edema, macular degeneration, or central serous ...
Pregnancy-associated malaria (PAM) or placental malaria is a presentation of malaria in pregnancy which is life-threatening to both pregnant women and unborn fetuses. [1] PAM occurs when a pregnant woman contracts malaria, generally as a result of Plasmodium falciparum infection, and because she is pregnant, is at greater risk of associated complications such as placental malaria.
In one, participants were shown smiling or winking faces and asked to press the space bar only when they saw a smiley face. (This tested inhibition, attention, reaction time, and accuracy.)
Glasses prescribed to correct presbyopia may be simple reading glasses, bifocals, trifocals, or progressive lenses. [4] People over 40 are at risk for developing presbyopia and all people become affected to some degree. [1] An estimated 25% of people (1.8 billion globally) had presbyopia as of 2015. [3]