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Early Success in a Human Embryonic Stem Cell Trial to Treat Blindness

The first patients to receive human embryonic stem cell transplants say their lives have been transformed by the experimental procedure.

First European Embryonic Stem Cell Trial Gets Green Light

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Health authorities in the U.K. approved on Thursday Europe’s first clinical trial involving embryonic stem cells.

Study: Could Diet Help Prevent Vision Loss?

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Here’s another reason to get your daily recommended allowances of vitamins and minerals: to lower the odds of vision loss in midlife.

Can Cheap Sunglasses Be Bad for Your Eyes?

As people eagerly head out into the sun to soak up the last weeks of summer, inevitably some will end up picking up a cheap pair of sunglasses — because you left your good ones at home, or in the back of an airplane seat or in a cab, or just because those ones the [...]