Blog posts of '2015' 'October'

In Italian fashion landscape, without  Dolce&Gabbana we would miss a non conventional style for sure, synonym of a certain refinement handmade made in Italy. Glamour colours and models that underline a timeless elegance.

Tribute to Italianity in the world, each Dolce&Gabbana collection exudes emotions typical for seducing mediterranean soul, leaving room to contemporary innovation and design.

For Fall/Winter2016 Dolce&Gabbana presents Gentleman, a collection inspired to the old-timey men and thought in a terms of a modern context to satisfy nowadays requirements.

The sobriety of artist's style intensifies the contemporary sartorial elegance. The actual design and functional style are enriched with iconic shapes, sophisticated colours and elegant finishes for an extremely modern trend.

Only a self confident person with an internal refinmente can wear this glaze.

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Maximum precision with minimal volume. It is the aim to pursue when prothesis are planted in delicate and small dimensions organs as the eye, to reproduce its functions.

Up to twenty years ago the concept that electronical devices could bring back sight seemed science fiction. It seemed an abstract matter, but recenlty retinal implants have been developed. In cases like this, it is necessary that brain and environment communicate, letting the brain perceive the visual stimulus and decode them.

It is sure that being made of a so complex anatomy, its repoduction is difficul. Nowadays, Europe has approved the devices Argus II and Alpha Ims, for those who have an irreversible degeneration of retina, but that keeps the activity of optical nerve. Rather than expensive (100 thousand  euros) the two prothesis funtion in different ways.

Argus II is made by microchips with 60 electrodes , that is planted in the rear part of retina and communciates with optical nerve   and by an antenna placed on ocular bulb, that receives impulses from a camera mounted on glasses.

Alpha Ims, instead,doesn't need an external camera: a microchip composed by 1.500 light-sensitive photodiodes it is inserted in the area of reatina that generally hosts visual receptors and sends impulses to optical nerve. Moving with the eye, it allows to direct the gaze in a natural way, on the opposite way of the camera of Argus II that has to be directioned moving all the head.

An independent study published on the British Journal of Ophtalmology  compared the two implants, concluding that Alpha Ims allows a major visual acuity. The implant of this prothesis it is more complex. In both the cases, anyway, the resulting vision is coarse. The patient sees some pixels in gray scale and, with time, he learns how to decode them. For blind people this is a big thing. But there are already being experimented retinal implants that should allow a more precise vision, while also softwares for already existing prothesis should allow to see colors in short time. 

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On the prestigeJournal of Ophtalmology it has been recently published a meta-analysis  that shows the effectiveness and acceptability of this contactologic practice as a treatment of slowing down of shortsightedness progression.

Two researchers of our Country contributed to this work :Giacomo Savini,ophtalmologist of Fondazione Bietti in Rome, and Antonio Calossi, optometrist of University of  Florence.Their presence, in sucha a study , gives testimony of the excellence level of Italian research realized in this field.

Meta-analysis is a work of statistic analysis of scientific literature , that allows to collect data published during different studies on the same topic to the aim of reaching a result synthesis. In this case the meta anlysis has been carried out on eight studies, that involved 769 kids of medium age of 10 years , followed for at least two years. In kids treated with orthokeratology, the progression of ocular bulb elongation decreased for about 50% and the dropout rate ,has been similar to those of control group, showing that orthokeratology, besides being effective, it is also fully acceptable for the young bearers.

As Calossi points out,in the analyzed studies no cases of serious complications that could have left permanent damages to eye or sight, have been reported. "By a correct instruction in the kids and families and respecting a correct ckecking program, the use of lenses for night orthokeratology is safe as conventional contattology, by the way the risks are never void and it is fundamental to be extremely vigilant- underlines Carossi- the key to provide an effective and sure orthokeratology treatmentis the cooperation between professionists involved in this procedure, doctors and technicians, specialized and constantly updated in this field, to be capable of following the highest porofessional standards."

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