Dr. Yeni H. Yucel, an ophthalmic pathologist at St. Michael's Hospital, has won the prestigious 2010 Lewis Rudin Glaucoma Prize from the New York Academy of Medicine. Dr. Yucel received the $50,000 award for discovering a form of circulation within the human eye that may lead to new treatments for glaucoma and eye tumours. His work dispelled the longstanding assumption that the eye has no lymphatics, the channels responsible for pumping fluid and waste out of tissues. The inability to clear fluid from the eye causes a buildup of pressure, the major risk factor for glaucoma...
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