Why Do People (Still) Go Blind from Glaucoma?

Why Do People (Still) Go Blind from Glaucoma?

Glaucoma is a progressive optic neuropathy and is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. Over 60 million people were estimated to be affected with open-angle glaucoma (OAG) in 2010, and bilateral blindness from the disease was estimated to be present in 4.5 million people with OAG in 2010, rising to 5.9 million people in 2020. In 1982, Grant and Burke published an article with a...

Why Do People Still Live in East Germany ?

Why Do People Still Live in East Germany? In 1997 GDP per capita in East Germany was 57% of that of West Germany, wage rates were 75% of western levels, and the unemployment rate was at least double the western rate of 7.8%. One would expect that if capital flows and trade in goods failed to bring convergence, labor flows would respond, enhancing overall efficiency. Yet net emigration from East...

Why do people retire from work early?

This article examines the validity of a mortality study of early retirees by Dr. Eric Kingson. The Kingson study supports the hypothesis that men who retired early were very prone to have work-limiting conditions even though they were not awarded Disability Insurance benefits. This article maintains that Kingson's study is analytically faulty because of the procedure used to categorize the samp...

Before the consultation: why people do (or do not) go to the doctor.

Why do people riot?

London burning: Buildings in Tottenham, North London, on fire during the riots at the beginning of August. (Photo: PA Wire/Press Association Images.) The ‘English riots’ of this summer started in the North London suburb of Tottenham on Saturday 6th of August, following a peaceful demonstration protesting against the death of Mark Duggan, who had been shot by special police forces two days earli...