The rates of legal blindness as a result of wet AMD in Scotland have been shown to have reduced significantly since approval of ranibizumab for wet AMD and I am pleased to now have it in my armoury of treatments for the management of BRVO.
Healing (literally meaning to make whole) is the process of the restoration of health from an unbalanced, diseased or damaged organism. The result of healing can be a cure to a health challenge, but one can heal without being cured. The profession of nursing has been traditionally concerned with matters of healing, whereas historically the profession of medicine has been concerned with curing.
heelen, Ger. heilen), lit. to make whole, which is also the source of O.E. hal (see health). Heal-all as a native word for panacea is attested from 1577; applied to various plants since 1853. I suspect it was but another shape of the virtue that went forth to heal. If I am to heal this poor sufferer, I must be provided with an armchair. All the pictures of Time represent him with a scythe to cut, but I never saw any picture of Time with a case of medicines to heal.