Diseases affecting the cornea are a major cause of blindness worldwide, second only to cataract in overall importance. The epidemiology of corneal blindness is complicated and encompasses a wide variety of infectious and inflammatory eye diseses that cause corneal scarring, which ultimately leads to functional blindness. In addition, the prevalence of corneal disease varies from country to coun...

PURPOSE To report the clinical outcome of patients treated with intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) for malignancies of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses. METHODS AND MATERIALS Between 1998 and 2004, 36 patients with malignancies of the sinonasal region were treated with IMRT. Thirty-two patients (89%) were treated in the postoperative setting after gross total resection. Treatm...

In 1933 I inspected a large number of prisoners in the jails of Ceylon for signs and symptoms of nutritional deficiencies. The results were reported in this journal (Nicholls, 1933). The conditions which were attributed to vitamin-A deficiency were :?a papular dry skin eruption (phrynoderma), night blindness, dimness of sight, xerophthalmia, keratomalacia, a lowered resistance to dysentery, and...

The animals used in the research were standard albino rats and a strain of hooded rats which had been inbred for a number of years. The stock members of the colony were maintained on Steenbock’s ration (2) except that bone ash was substituted for calcium carbonate in accordance with later recommendations of the author. Fresh, whole milk was given ad Zibitum. Litters were reduced to six animals....

It would seem reasonable to direct most nutritional research towards those problems that most afflict mankind, but in the present state of knowledge it is difficult to ascertain which these are. The first part of this paper will outline some of the difficulties but subsequently a rank order will be given which no doubt will be controversial. Thus the subject matter of this paper has revealed pe...

OBJECTIVES Vidian neurectomy could be considered the treatment of choice for intractable rhinitis, because it is the only method that can permanently block the pathophysiological mechanism of rhinitis. The goal of this study was to evaluate the effect of vidian neurectomy on nasal symptoms and tear production, and to assess for possible complications. METHODS Six patients with intractable rhi...

A meeting of concerned scientists, health officials, and policy makers was convened in February, 1992, at the Rockefeller Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy, in response to recent calls to control or eliminate Vitamin A deficiency worldwide. The group was commissioned to explore the role of vitamin A status of child health in developing countries, to draw some conclusions, and to c...

INTRODUCTION The aims of this study were to assess agreement between the currently used 2002 American-European Consensus Group (AECG) classification criteria and the new 2012 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria for Sjögren's syndrome (SS) and to identify potential sources of disagreement. METHODS We studied 105 patients between 2006 and 2013 from the Brittany cohort of patients wi...

Two hundred and thirty eight patients with ocular symptoms of conjunctivitis, conjunctival xerosis, pterygium and pinguecula were selected for this clinical trial. All the patients were administered Ophthacare eye drops topically as a single medication at the dose of 2 drops every 2 hours for 15 days. Ophthacare eye drops showed excellent results in relieving symptoms of viral conjunctivitis in...