Serious Readers Blog

Live near Cambridge? Let light fill your life…
Thursday 08 February 2018
Without light there can be no sight, and without sight we could not appreciate the myriad beauties that light gives us. For the next 5 days, Cambridge becomes the host to a contemporary arts festival - e-Luminate - which celebrates a unique collision of
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Live near Cambridge? Let light fill your life…

8 Feb 2018
Cataract surgery could prolong your Life
Wednesday 31 January 2018
A 20-year study of over 74,000 American women with cataracts has shown a 60 percent lower risk of death among the women who had their cataracts removed.
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Cataract surgery could prolong your Life

31 Jan 2018
What price restored eyesight? US firm says $850,000…
Monday 29 January 2018
One of the most expensive drugs ever sold has just been approved for sale in the US by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA).
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What price restored eyesight? US firm says $850,000…

29 Jan 2018
How exercise may protect you from glaucoma
Thursday 25 January 2018
New research suggests that exercise, such as walking or jogging, can help lower the risk of Glaucoma.
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How exercise may protect you from glaucoma

25 Jan 2018
Poor eyesight to blame for nearly 3,000 road casualties every year claims road charity
Monday 22 January 2018
Road Safety charity Brake is calling on the government to change the law on driver vision. In 2011 alone, nearly 6,000 drivers had their licences revoked by the DVLA for failing to meet the minimum eyesight standards, and Brake maintain that poor vision i
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Poor eyesight to blame for nearly 3,000 road casualties every year claims road charity

22 Jan 2018
Eyesight? Some say it’s a fishy business
Thursday 18 January 2018
Newly published research claims that eating oily fish may protect older people against deterioration of cells in the eye, and act as a barrier to loss of sight.
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Eyesight? Some say it’s a fishy business

18 Jan 2018
See London Light Up
Thursday 11 January 2018
Without light there can be no sight. And one of the greatest pleasures of sight is seeing the beauty that light can create. What better antidote for the darkness of winter than a festival celebrating light? Well if you’re in the London area, you can expe
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See London Light Up

11 Jan 2018
Trees to light the pavements?
Thursday 04 January 2018
Streetlights replaced by glowing plants. No, this is not the stuff of American ‘50s Sci Fi. Thanks to our research friends at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the reality is closer than we may think.
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Trees to light the pavements?

4 Jan 2018
Potential new therapy for Glaucoma Sufferers
Tuesday 02 January 2018
Researchers at Stanford University are experimenting with a new treatment for Glaucoma which could completely change our thinking about therapy for the condition.
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Potential new therapy for Glaucoma Sufferers

2 Jan 2018
Could drinking tea lower your risk of Glaucoma?
Wednesday 27 December 2017
A study from the University of California recently published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology has shown a possible link between tea consumption and risk of glaucoma.
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Could drinking tea lower your risk of Glaucoma?

27 Dec 2017
Study confirms poverty and vision problems go hand-in-hand
Thursday 21 December 2017
A recent study of 190 countries and territories dating back to 2010 shows that low levels of socio-economic development correlate directly to high levels of visual impairment.
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Study confirms poverty and vision problems go hand-in-hand

21 Dec 2017
Oldest eye discovery sheds light on early sight
Thursday 14 December 2017
A European team including scientists from the University of Edinburgh have found what they believe to be the first example of an eye in an “exceptional” 530-million-year-old trilobite fossil. Crabs, bees and dragonflies all use a form of the very same eye
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Oldest eye discovery sheds light on early sight

14 Dec 2017