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...most people the benefits of fish outweigh the risks. Eat modest servings of fish each week--particularly salmon and bluefish--and you may reduce your risk of coronary heart disease 36%. Elsewhere, researchers at Louisiana State University reported that omega-3s can help protect cells in the retina, slowing the damage caused by such blinding diseases as retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration...
...good news, then, that Lucentis will likely get its FDA stamp of approval this week. Until now no approved treatment has improved sight in patients with AMD so well. Although Lucentis can't repair the irreversible retina damage that occurs when AMD has gone untreated, it prevents the blood-vessel leakage in the back of the eye that causes damage in the first place, leaving patients with distorted, wavy vision, and eventually a gap in the center of their vision. Up to 40% (depending on the dosage) of those in Lucentis trials improved their eyesight by at least three lines...
...biochemical research and development. The drugs to be developed would slow the build-up in the eye over time of retinotoxic molecules called lipofusins—the cause of AMD—according to Rando. These toxins cause degeneration of the macula, the part of the retina that controls keenness of vision and color vision, sometimes to the point of complete blindness. “Every time light is absorbed in the retina...it produces a chemically reactive by-product,” Rando said. He explained that this by-product ought to be recycled...
...disconnect—whereby we vilify those who carry out repellent policies while bowing deferentially to those who devise them—was vividly in evidence here at Harvard last week. It would be unthinkable for a Harvard student organization to host, say, Private Lyndie England, who on the retina of the collective imagination will be forever giving the thumbs-up to the degradation of a fellow human being. But the Harvard Law School Federalist Society thought nothing of inviting Judge Jay S. Bybee, whose infamous “torture memo” of August 2002 gave the thumbs...
...easy to forget the moon. The images of NASA's celebrated lunar landings are lasered onto the national retina, and perhaps no two things are better remembered than the sister ships that made the trips: the cone-shaped Apollo command module and the leggy lunar lander. If NASA has its way, those kinds of spacecraft will be flying again soon. They will not, however, be your daddy's moonships...