Word: glaucoma
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...best fringe benefits of being President is getting regular and thorough medical examinations. In George Bush's case, it could prove to be an eye saver. The White House announced last week that his latest checkup had revealed a budding case of glaucoma in his left eye, a disease that can be $ controlled if caught early, but can otherwise lead to blindness. Bush thus joins some 2.5 million other Americans who suffer from this common problem, and his case underscores the value of discovering glaucoma before serious damage is done...
...Glaucoma occurs with increasing frequency in people over the age of 40, affecting 9% of those 70 or older. It is most common in blacks and those with a family history of the disorder. Of the three main types of the disease, Bush has by far the most common. His open-angle glaucoma can be treated painlessly and effectively, if found early enough. The more severe acute closed-angle glaucoma, on the other hand, causes sharp pain and visual impairment and requires prompt laser surgery. The third type, which blinded Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder, occurs at birth or soon...
...current president, Joseph Lowery. They speculated that "to sell books" someone other than Abernathy wrote the offending passages. But Harper & Row spokesman Steve Sorrentino insists that "the book is entirely Abernathy's words." In Memphis on a promotion tour, Abernathy, who has had two strokes and suffers from glaucoma, declared, "I am not a Judas. I have written nothing in malice and omitted nothing out of cowardice...
Ironically, the judge found marijuana useful in relieving nausea induced by chemotherapy and muscle spasms of multiple sclerosis but not in treating glaucoma, the disease of Robert Randall, whose legal battle with the DEA sparked the case. Randall gets his daily prescribed dose of marijuana from a pharmacy in Washington that is supplied by a federal farm in Mississippi. He believes the evidence before his eyes. "It's been twelve years," says Randall, who was expected to lose his eyesight by 1977, "and I haven't gone blind...
...started about a week ago. There I was in the doctor's office, looking to score some glaucoma remedy, when all of a sudden the M.D. gives me this funny look...