Operation Cataract helped cut the backlog which was blamed on the Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Cumbria.
It's why the Prime Minister announced airline style booking systems for cancer and cataract services.
In modern times, there have been cases of vision restored thanks to corneal transplants and cataract surgery.
Data was analysed on 642 male patients, or which 122 developed a cataract.
This slices much more neatly into eyeballs to remove a cataract than standard tools because its edges are less jagged.
There are many treatments - such as cataract removal, for example, which greatly improve quality of life, without necessarily extending it.
The story describes how she was not pleased with the ugly black cane they gave her to steady herself after cataract surgery.
"Thousands of patients have had their cataract operations more quickly, free at the point of need, as a result of this deal".
Many are needed because of keratoconus, a disorder of the shape of the cornea, or corneal disease, often caused by cataract surgery.
The watchdog found evidence of rationing in areas such as cataract surgery.
Last year a team of Netcare surgeons travelled from South Africa to the North West to carry out more than 800 cataract operations.
As a result, the total number of cataract operations has increased from 1.2 million a year in 1991-92 to about 2.7 million in 1996-97.
These were for planned care, such as knee and cataract operations.
Thus the cataract operations that will allow the recipients to return to work, and the digital education that will create a generation of computer-savvy Mexican youth.
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Lead researcher Professor Santa Jeremy Ono said current treatments for severe eye allergy were either ineffective, or have side effects, such as glaucoma and cataract formation.
Most of the demand is for cataract and hernia operations, but people also appear with mysterious lumps to be removed or misshapen limbs that need straightening.
The drive to cut waiting lists for cataract surgery continues - with maximum waiting times to be reduced from the current target of six months to four.
Instead, she argued, money should be spent on interventions which genuinely relieve suffering such as cataract operations, joint replacement surgery and personal care for people with dementia.
But there hasn't been enough money to get treatment for her mother, who she says is blinded by a cataract, or for one of her sisters who is epileptic.
The researchers found that men with the highest tibia lead level were 2.7 times more likely to develop a cataract than those who recorded the lowest level of lead in this bone.
In 2010, with his son James, Ueltschi cofounded another nonprofit focused entirely on restoring sight to over 20 million adults and children suffering from cataract blindness in developing countries around the world.
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In the past year, evidence has been gathered about how a growing number of areas are placing restrictions on everything form access to cataract operations to correct eyesight problems to hip and knee surgery.
Sight Savers International offers treatment such as cataract operations, to those whose sight can be saved, and educates healthcare workers about potential conditions which could cause blindness - such as vitamin A deficiency in childhood.
Inspired by his dentist, Kelman figured out a way to use an ultrasound probe to disintegrate the cataract, a tiny vacuum to pull out the pieces, and a small incision to drop in the new lens.
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Writing in JAMA, the researchers said they believe their study provides the first evidence suggesting accumulated lead exposure, such as that commonly experienced by adults in the US, may be an important, unrecognized risk factor for cataract.
My favorite example is cataract surgery.
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In a society that was to have closed the gap between rich and poor, ordinary Cubans who have waited for years for, say, cataract surgery are often bumped aside so that patients flown in from other countries, presumably with cash, may be treated instead.
The firm, entitled HelpMeSee, has two missions: to provide direct funding to surgeons in the developing world for low-cost lens replacement surgeries performed on cataract blind adults and children, and to train 30 thousand cataract specialists in the developing world a low-cost, cost effective surgery using virtual reality simulators and courseware adapted from aviation training.
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In the absence of long-term studies, we are left with data like the cataract findings that come not from a study per se, but rather from examining the health records of many thousands of people on antidepressants and looking to see which conditions are more common in these people than in folks not on antidepressants.
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