Eye Drops Could Dissolve Cataracts

An anonymous reader writes: As Slashdot readers age, more and more will be facing surgery for cataracts. The lack of cataract surgery in much of the world is a major cause of blindness. Researchers at University of California San Diego have identified lanosterol as a key molecule in the prevention of cataract formation that points to a novel strategy for cataract prevention and non-surgical treatment. The abstract is freely available from Nature. If you have cataracts, you might want to purchase a full reprint while you can still read it.

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Re:Secondary Cataracts

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There is a documentary about Best Korea on YouTube but I forgot the name. My meory sucks, they need a drop for that. Anyhow, the documentary covers an eye doctor who visits North Korea and performs many cataract surgeries in primitive conditions but with great success. What is odd is, at the end, they are removing the gauze and all these nearly blind people head up to the picture at the front and praise the Dear Leader as if he was the cure and not the cause of their suffering.

No pun intended but it was eye opening to see the contrast between cultures. I am not entirely sure that the loud wailing was sincere either. They wailed and praised the Dear Leader and I believe the narrator mentioned that it was pretty much a requirement that they do so and those who did not (all of them did) would be punished severely for not showing proper deference.

It makes me glad that I can call my president an asshole if I feel he is being an asshole. Of course, I will be labled a racist if I do so but that is another matter entirely. I am sure I will be a sexist for not voting for Hillary as well but, again, that is another matter entirely. I am just glad to be able to be critical of my government and this story reminded me of that documentary.