Flashes of Light Can Be a Sign of a Dangerous Eye Condition

Have you ever had black specks floating around in your vision? Patrick Muffler noticed some one day. “I saw funny V-shaped floaters in my eye,” he says. When he woke up the next day, a Friday, they were still there. “I started getting more – black dots, maybe 40 of them.” Over the weekend, Muffler, a retired geologist in Palo Alto, Calif., developed a cloudy area in his visual field. He went to his ophthalmologist Monday morning and learned that his retina was torn and detached. “If I hadn’t gone…

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Zika virus related to unreported eye troubles in infants

A group of ophthalmologists has determined formerly unreported eye issues in toddlers born to mothers who confirmed signs and symptoms of Zika virus contamination for the duration of pregnancy. The researchers from Brazil and Stanford university determined unreported eye problems like retinal lesions, haemorrhaging and odd blood vessel improvement in 3 Brazilian babies with microcephaly — a beginning disorder marked by smaller head and mind length resulting from Zika virus. besides those observations, the toddlers on this have a look at — published inside the magazine Ophthalmology — also exhibited…

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HTC Desire Eye, One (E8), One (M8 Eye) Start Receiving Android 6.0 Marshmallow Update

HTC has started pushing out Android 6.0 Marshmallow updates for its Desire Eye, One (E8), and One (M8 Eye) smartphones. The HTC Desire Eye users (via HTC Blog Italia) in Europe as well as users on AT&T will start receiving the over-the-air (OTA) update next week. The HTC One (E8) is currently only receiving the OTA Marshmallow update in China. The HTC One (M8 Eye) users in Europe and China are reporting about the new update for the handset. Unfortunately, there is no official changelog for the new Marshmallow updates…

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