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Most kids with form of ‘cross-eyes’ become nearsighted
• Eye / Vision Problems • Apr 14 10
Children with a particular variation of strabismus - commonly referred to as “cross-eyes” - appear highly likely to develop nearsightedness by adulthood, according to…
Contact lenses loaded with vitamin E may treat glaucoma
• Eye / Vision Problems • Mar 24 10
The popular dietary supplement vitamin E, loaded into special medicated contact lenses, can keep glaucoma medicine near the eye — where it can treat…
Eye Exercise to Improve Vision
• Eye / Vision Problems • Mar 22 10
We have a lot of methods and processes which you can apply to aid to improve your vision naturally. Poor eye vision is a…
Vision problems linked to higher dementia risk
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Feb 23 10
Elderly adults with poor vision, particularly untreated vision problems, may have a higher risk of developing dementia than those with better vision, a new…
New evidence that green tea may help fight glaucoma and other eye diseases
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Food & Nutrition • Feb 18 10
Scientists have confirmed that the healthful substances found in green tea — renowned for their powerful antioxidant and disease-fighting properties — do penetrate into…
All Eyes on Retinal Degeneration
• Eye / Vision Problems • Feb 16 10
Research by Johns Hopkins sensory biologists studying fruit flies, has revealed a critical step in fly vision. Humans with problems in this same step…
New gene discovery could help to prevent blindness
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Genetics • Feb 11 10
Scientists have uncovered a new gene that could help save the sight of patients with a type of inherited blindness.
The international research team…
Study Shows UV-Blocking Contact Lenses Can Protect Eyes from Sun Damage
• Eye / Vision Problems • Jan 27 10
A new study reported in Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science found that UV-blocking contact lenses can reduce or eliminate the effects of the…
Artificial muscles restore ability to blink, save eyesight
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Neurology • Jan 18 10
Surgeons from UC Davis Medical Center have demonstrated that artificial muscles can restore the ability of patients with facial paralysis to blink, a development…
Researchers find new insights into inherited retinal disease
• Eye / Vision Problems • Jan 18 10
An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered new links between a…
Refinement of Glaucoma Testing, Treatment Expected from US, UK Study
• Eye / Vision Problems • Jan 14 10
An Indiana University School of Optometry researcher’s ongoing work to improve testing for and treatment of one of the world’s leading causes of blindness…
Ancient Egyptian cosmetics: ‘Magical’ makeup may have been medicine for eye disease
• Eye / Vision Problems • Jan 11 10
There’s more to the eye makeup that gave Queen Nefertiti and other ancient Egyptian royals those stupendous gazes and legendary beauty than meets the…
It’s Never Too Late to Quit Smoking and Save Your Vision, Finds Study of AMD in Elderly Women
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Gender: Female • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Dec 31 09
Need a little extra incentive to kick the habit?
Just in time for New Year’s resolutions, a UCLA study finds that even after…
Steroid Injections May Slow Diabetes-Related Eye Disease
• Diabetes • • Eye / Vision Problems • Dec 24 09
Researchers led by specialists at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute have found that injecting a corticosteroid, triamcinolone, directly into the eye may slow…
Eat Fruits and Vegetable for Better Vision
• Eye / Vision Problems • Dec 17 09
Carotenoids, found in green leafy vegetables and colored fruits, have been found to increase visual performance and may prevent age-related eye diseases, according to…
New inherited eye disease discovered
• Eye / Vision Problems • Dec 11 09
University of Iowa researchers have found the existence of a new, rare inherited retinal disease. Now the search is on to find the genetic…
Does cataract surgery make eye disease worse?
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Surgery • Nov 13 09
Cataract surgery does not appear to worsen the course of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a progressive loss of vision due to deterioration of…
Role of dietary fat in eye disease complex
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Fat, Dietary • Nov 11 09
How much fat you eat - and what kind - may affect your risk of age-related vision loss, new research shows.
The researchers studied…
Cataract surgery helps AMD patients; steroid improves DME; online eye health forum
• Eye / Vision Problems • Nov 02 09
This month’s Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (Academy) reports on a national study that finds cataract surgery is likely to…
Gene therapy experiment restores sight in a few
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Genetics • Oct 26 09
Nine-year-old Corey Haas can ride his bike alone now, thanks to an experimental gene therapy that has boosted his fading vision with a single…
Just 10 Minutes of Exercise Could Help Prevent Vision Loss from Glaucoma
• Eye / Vision Problems • Oct 14 09
There may be a new ray of hope for glaucoma patients striving to preserve their vision. According to a recent study that appears in…
Could vision problems be linked to earlier death?
• Eye / Vision Problems • Oct 13 09
Poor vision is enough a hardship for the elderly. But such vision problems, when they can’t be corrected, also appear to be tied to…
Men nearly 3 times as likely to develop noise-induced hearing loss
• Eye / Vision Problems • Oct 05 09
A comprehensive study of the prevalence and risk factors for noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) show that men, especially those who are white and…
Toronto researchers discover novel circulation in human eye, new glaucoma treatment target
• Eye / Vision Problems • Oct 05 09
Researchers at the University of Toronto, St. Michael’s Hospital and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre have discovered a previously unidentified form of circulation within the…
Positive trend for diabetic eye health; AMD may predict heart disease; vision impacts life success
• Diabetes • • Eye / Vision Problems • Oct 01 09
Highlights of October’s Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, include good news on preserving vision in people with type 1 diabetes,…