Results of a new international survey reveal that eye exams are being ignored by many over the age of 40. Only two fifths of respondents had visited an eye specialist in the last year to have their eyes checked. The results are disturbing since twice as many people feared going blind compared to heart disease or early death.

Glaucoma has been nicknamed "the silent sight thief". Worldwide, it is the second leading cause of blindness. Glaucoma affects one in two hundred people aged fifty and younger and one in ten over the age of eighty

The Philippine Department of Health (DOH) on Wednesday disclosed the direct link between smoking and blindness.

Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III said that smokers are at least twice as likely to lose their sight in later life, if they do not quit smoking

A survey conducted by Nielsen Media Research in tandem with Reader's Digest show that high blood pressure is the top health concerns among Filipinos followed by high cholesterol and diabetes.

The study polled 24,000 respondents in seven Asian cities including Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and the Philippines. The researchers found that 79.5 percent of respondents consider high blood pressure as their top health concern followed by high cholesterol (70.8 percent) and diabetes (70 percent)

Pfizer, the largest manufacturer of drugs in the United States, on Thursday has come up in its defence against the alleged lawsuit filed by the Nigerian authorities in drug abuse case.

The U.S. drug major now says that it had received a written approval from Nigerian authorities before administering Trovan- a drug that claimed the lives of 11 children in the northern Kano state in 1996

Researchers at the University of Florida and The Jackson Laboratory in Maine have achieved a breakthrough in the restoration of sight in mice with achromatopsia, a form of hereditary blindness that is present in many human beings too.

Achromatopsia is the inability to see color. Although the term may refer to acquired disorders such as color agnosia and cerebral achromatopsia, it typically refers to congenital color vision disorders