A recent study in Eye and Brain, Nov 2012, found evidence that patients with glaucoma had a delayed reaction time with their eye movements. Glaucoma is a disease where the nerve cells that send vision information from the eye to the brain progressively stop working, starting with peripheral vision and then moving towards the center. Read More→
Toxoplasmosis–The Cat Disease that can Blind
January 26, 2013 by
Toxoplasmosis is caused by a parasite. It is estimated that 60 million people in the U.S. carry this parasite. Around 22.5% of Americans have been affected, but some tropical countries have infection rates as high as 95%! Cats are the definitive host for the disease and when they are actively infected they shed the parasite Read More→