Ask your doctor: How Smart Vision Glasses helps to improve vision?

Q. How can Smart Vision Glasses help to improve vision?

- Manikandan, Gopalapuram

Smart Vision Glasses come with power of machine learning and artificial intelligence built into a simple head-mounted spectacle frame. It will help the visually impaired and blind to function with more independence through the ability to read, recognise com mon objects, navigate their way through office and home environments and support reading in several Indian languages in both printed and handwritten text. One of the most notable features is its affordability for the underprivileged by reducing the cost to under 1/10th (one-tenth) of the current alternatives. The affordability will substantially increase with rise in demand volumes in the coming years.

-VL Narasimhan, member secretary, Vision Aid India

What is Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy?

-Michael S, Perambur

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a rare genetic disease with no definitive treatment. The progression of DMD can be delayed using an immune modulating biological response modifier glucans. These have a long track record of safety as a food supplement in Japan and the credentials of this unique beta glucans have been proven to decrease the inflammation and fibrosis, which are the key elements of manifestation in DMD whose root cause is a genetic defect in production of dystrophin, a regulator of smooth functioning of the muscles.

-Dr Raghavan, paediatric

neurologist, JAICARE, Madurai