Glaucoma, A Stealth Disease And Major Cause of Blindness If you think you are not at risk for glaucoma, think again. Glaucoma is a disease that steals the sight of people around the world -- and they typically don't even know they have the disease un

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Early Detection And Treatment A Must For Glaucoma Patients Glaucoma robs people of their vision. It happens when fluid builds up in the eye, causing so much pressure that it kills cells in the optic nerve. Mary Hyman was diagnosed with glaucoma more

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(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's time now for StoryCorps. And today, we hear from Josh Hanagarne. Josh has an extreme form of Tourette's syndrome, where his tics - his involuntary movements and sounds - have been so severe, they have pu

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Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible loss of vision worldwide and now doctors believe the devastating disease begins in the brain and not in the eye as has long been thought. Dr. David Calkins, director of research at the Vanderbilt Eye Inst

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BEIJING, Nov. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- Scientists in Canada have raised a prospect of reversing Alzheimer's disease by deep brain stimulation, according to media reports Monday. The technique here is known as deep brain stimulation -- applying electricity d

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SCIENCE REPORT-January 10, 2002: New Glaucoma Treatments By Nancy Steinbach This is the VOA Special English Science Report. Sixty-seven-million people around the world cannot see because they suffer f

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