In humans and other developed species it can cause eye cataracts and skin cancer.
The biggest advance in actually lessening the problem happened in the 1950s with cataracts.
The juice, say the fans, can cure or prevent everything from cataracts to cancer.
Having lost one eye as a child, he suffers inoperable cataracts on the other.
There is some evidence that the drug does increase the risk of developing uterine cancer and cataracts.
Though it could not clear cataracts that had already formed, it partly reversed muscle-wasting and fatty-tissue loss.
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The drivers will wear special glasses that simulate the kind of vision someone with cataracts or glaucoma has.
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Colleague David Mohre mentions that GCRs in particular has lead to a statistical increase in cataracts in astronauts.
The Caribbean Mercy is smaller and has two operating theatres which deal mainly with eye surgery (mostly cataracts).
He has also been diagnosed with cataracts in both eyes and arthritic knees.
What's all this about mangosteen juice preventing cancer, curing dyspepsia and erasing cataracts?
Soon after the trial Lillehei developed cataracts, a complication of the lymphosarcoma he had survived as a young man.
The water rushes over and around the fearsome cataracts in a boiling confusion.
Cataracts are one of the most common causes of blindness in the world.
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My other grandpa (age 72) lobbies local aviation authorities that his cataracts should not prevent him from flying an ultralight.
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There are perhaps 12m blind people in India, with most cases arising from treatable or preventable causes such as cataracts.
Ultrasound had been used to remove cataracts or to surgically remove tissue.
Ultraviolet-light exposure potentially causes melanoma and contributes to the development of cataracts.
Just upstream from modern day Brazzaville city are the huge "cataracts" - rocks which, for millenia, have stopped river boats passing this point.
It is known that disequilibrium conditions such as diabetes, can accelerate formation of cataracts, so this may also not be a moot point.
The study found a similar beneficial effect for people with cataracts who don't normally get a lot of lutein and zeaxanthin in their diet.
So maybe depressed people not on antidepressants would be as likely, or maybe even more likely, than depressed people on antidepressants to develop cataracts.
The queue for eye surgery has risen by 140% in the past ten years, mainly because there are more elderly people needing cataracts removed.
This involved the training of paramedics to handle cataracts, for example.
Diagnosed with brown cataracts in both eyes and advised to have surgery, Pillai will be taken to Madurai at Aravind's cost and treated for free.
The Boston team investigated whether there was an association between the development of cataracts and lead levels in two bones - the tibia (shin bone) and the patella (kneecap).
Among the patients arriving on the river bank to have their cataracts removed and their hernias fixed at the new hospital is a pregnant woman who is bleeding alarmingly.
She said regular eye tests were important, not only for correcting vision problems, but also because they can spot early indicators of other health problems, such as diabetes, glaucoma and cataracts.
And they did not suffer cataracts of the eye.
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How well physicians did for any particular condition varied substantially, ranging from about 79 percent of recommended care delivered for early-stage cataracts to about 11 percent of recommended care for alcohol dependence.
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