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Peer reviewedScience Teacher, 2005
Age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in older adults, yet researchers are still in the dark about many of the factors that cause this incurable disease. But new insight from University of Florida (UF) and German researchers about a genetic link between rhesus monkeys with macular degeneration and humans could unlock…
Descriptors: Blindness, Primatology, Medical Research, Ophthalmology
Peer reviewedJohnson, Donald D.; Whitehead, Robert L. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1989
Two groups of deaf college students, including 104 deaf from congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) and 138 deaf from other reasons, received complete audiometric assessments and ophthalmological examinations. Degree of hearing loss did not differ between groups. However, 7 visual problems were found to be more prevalent with the CRS population.…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Deafness, Epidemiology
