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    Month: September 2004

    Antioxidant Values in Fruits And Vegetables

    Posted on September 25, 2004 by droberts
  • September 25, 2004

    Antioxidant Values in Fruits And Vegetables

    by Dan Roberts September 2004 A study from Tufts University in Boston ranks the antioxidant value of commonly eaten fruits and vegetables using an analysis called ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity). This is a test tube analysis that measures the total antioxidant power of foods and other chemical substances. Antioxidants are special compounds that protect […]

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  • Sight From Fetal Cell Transplantation

    Posted on September 15, 2004 by droberts
  • September 15, 2004

    Sight From Fetal Cell Transplantation

    by Dan Roberts January, 2003 (Updated September, 2004) Scientists are researching a new method of retinal transplantation in the continuing effort to restore sight to the blind. Drs. Robert Aramant and Magdalene Seiler (Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles) have had preliminary success transplanting double layers of cells from the retinas of aborted fetuses. The two […]

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  • Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS)

    Posted on September 14, 2004January 3, 2021 by droberts
  • September 14, 2004

    Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS)

    by Dan Roberts September 2004 This syndrome is characterized by visual hallucinations in people who have a sudden change in vision such as that brought on by macular degeneration. Named after the man who first described it in 1780, it was later defined as “persistent or recurrent visual pseudohallucinatory phenomena of a pleasant or neutral […]

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