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Almost one in five adults in the UK has hearing loss, yet only a third of those who could benefit from wearing hearing aids — roughly 6.7 million people, says charity Hearing Link — actually do so, typically for fear of looking old. Whether…

Glaucoma, which is caused by a fluid build-up in the eye, can lead to irreversible sight loss. Roger Pledge, 76, from Colchester, Essex, was the first in the UK to have a new type of implant fitted in both eyes to combat it, as he tells…