24.01.2012                      29.Tewet. 5772                       Jom Kippur Katan

Gesundheit:

As treatments improve, blindness in Israel halves

According to the study, in 1999, 33.8 out of every 100,000 Israelis were legally blind. By 2008, that figure had fallen to 16.6; study finds similar declines in most of the causes of blindness.

Blindness in Israel declined by 51 percent over a decade as new treatments came online and private medical care became more available, a study at Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer shows.
At Israel's health maintenance organizations, private care is often available to patients with supplemental coverage….