Glaucoma care today is often simplified into all or nothing terms with the assumption that if the patient's intraocular pressure (IOP) is above a certain level, glaucomatous disease will progress and when the IOP is lowered to below a threshold, no further progression will occur. This dogma is largely the result of limitations in the resolution of tools currently available to judge progression....

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff-and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. PREFACE This thesis is thought to be reflective of the transformation, mistily rendered in the citation on the previous page, which has taken place in me since I have handed in my Ph.D. thesis in the spring of 1996. If this transformation, no...

The authors studied the pattern of functional abilities and decline of skills in adults with cerebral palsy. The data source was the California Developmental Disabilities data base, which included 904 subjects of age 60. For those individuals who are mobile when they become adults, there is a marked decline in ambulation, especially in late adulthood, and few of the 60 year-olds who walked well...

background:  the  current study examined race and ethnic differences in the separate and combined (additive) effects of anxiety, depression and problem drinking on the baseline and trajectory of subjective health among adult men in the united states. methods:  this longitudinal study used data from the fragile families and child well-being study. we included 4655 men, composed of 2407 blacks, 1...

enjoyed much more than work. “I’m so busy I don’t know how I had time to work!” Others are adrift. One of my physician colleagues, recently retired due to illness, and still adjusting, reported that he met another retired doctor, who summed up his retirement this way: “I used to be important.” Retirement and disability are quite different but may overlap. The person who retires because of a dis...

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embryonic stem (ES) cells (as well as the numerous tools Over the past several years, the scientific and popular available for studying tumor development in the mouse), press has been bubbling over with experimental findings there are two important differences between mice and that would seem to be setting the stage for a magic humans regarding telomeres and telomerase regulation. bullet agains...

BACKGROUND Assessment of the health of men aged 60 and over in English and Welsh prisons. METHODS 203 men were interviewed from 15 prisons, comprising one-fifth of all sentenced men in this age group in England and Wales. Assessment included semi-structured interviews covering chronic and acute health problems, and recording of major illnesses from the medical notes and prison reception healt...