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Reusable Contact Lenses Increase Risk of Rare Eye Infection: Study

People who wear reusable contact lenses are about four times more likely to get the sight-threatening eye infection acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) than people who wear daily disposable lenses, says a study published in the journal Ophthalmology. Researchers say contact lens wearers can easily reduce their risk by not wearing their lenses while swimming or in the shower. They […]

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Not just available, but also useful: we must keep pushing to improve open access to research

Stephen Hawking’s PhD thesis became freely available online this week, and promptly crashed a server following massive public interest. It’s a clear example of the public appetite for open access scientific information, and of the potential reach when articles are available. But most of the world’s academic literature is still only legally available behind a paywall. It’s

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