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Researchers Identify Gene Variant Linked to Glaucoma
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Genetics • Sep 22 09
An international team, led by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the National Eye Institute, has discovered gene…
Study Predicts 40 Percent Increase in Blindness in Nigeria by 2020
• Eye / Vision Problems • Sep 08 09
By 2020, 1.4 million Nigerians over age 40 will lose their sight, and the vast majority of the causes are either preventable or treatable,…
Glaucoma? That’s no excuse to skip your work out
• Eye / Vision Problems • Sep 07 09
People who suffer from vision-impairing glaucoma can exercise without fear of making the condition worse, according to a new study.
Glaucoma arises from abnormally…
Lasting benefits seen in gene therapy for blindness
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Genetics • Aug 13 09
A year after receiving gene therapy for a condition that causes total blindness by age 30, three people continue to see better and one…
Drug-dispensing contact lens passes early tests
• Eye / Vision Problems • Aug 04 09
A contact lens that gradually dispenses a steady stream of medication to the eye could ease treatment for glaucoma and other eye ailments…
Tiny Cup Attached to Eye Improves Drug Delivery for Retinal Diseases
• Eye / Vision Problems • Aug 03 09
A new drug delivery system that uses a tiny silicone cup filled with any drug and sealed to the outer surface (episclera) of the…
Developing Gene Therapy to Fight Blindness
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Genetics • Jul 31 09
An international team of scientists and clinicians from the United States and Saudi Arabia are working to develop gene therapy for treating a…
Minor strokes may worsen vision in glaucoma
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Stroke • Jul 29 09
Glaucoma patients are likely to lose more of their vision if they suffer minor strokes, a three-year study in Hong Kong has found.
Glaucoma,…
The ‘see food’ diet
• Eye / Vision Problems • Jul 23 09
Current research suggests that a diet high in omega-3 fatty acids may help prevent one of the leading causes of legal blindness among the…
When Vision Dims, Some Tools Can Help Maintain Independence
• Eye / Vision Problems • Jul 08 09
Many devices can help people with low vision - a permanent partial loss of eyesight that makes everyday tasks difficult.
The June issue of…
Clue to normal-tension glaucoma; herpes infection and corneal transplants
• Eye / Vision Problems • Jul 01 09
The July issue of Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, includes two studies that may influence clinical treatment of serious eye…
Treating Lazy Eyes with a Joystick
• Eye / Vision Problems • Jun 22 09
Four percent of all children suffer from amblyopia, better known as “lazy eye syndrome.” Traditional treatment for the condition requires the use of an…
Major Breakthrough in Macular Degeneration
• Eye / Vision Problems • Jun 15 09
A team of researchers led by Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati at the University of Kentucky has discovered a biological marker for neovascular age-related macular degeneration…
Many glaucoma patients don’t adhere to treatment
• Eye / Vision Problems • Jun 10 09
A 3-month medication monitoring study showed that 44 percent of glaucoma patients used their eye drops less than three quarters of the time,…
Vision Impairment Costs Billions Lost in Productivity
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Public Health • Jun 02 09
Corrected vision impairment could prevent billions of dollars in lost productivity annually, according to a study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School…
Obstructive sleep apnea, retinopathy linked in diabetes
• Diabetes • • Eye / Vision Problems • May 19 09
The eyes may be the window into the soul, but they may also contain important medical information. According to new research to be presented…
Protein-protein interaction explains vision loss in genetic diseases
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Genetics • May 11 09
–The mystery of genetic disease is only partially solved with the identification of a mutated gene. Often, the pattern of disease – the features…
Tear Research Focused on Contact Lens Risks, Benefit
• Eye / Vision Problems • May 07 09
Contact lenses are great for sight, but do they have an impact on general eye health? Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham…
Glaucoma Treatments Cost-Effective
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Public Health • May 01 09
Current patterns of glaucoma care and treatment are a cost-effective way to slow or prevent vision loss and should be continued, according to…
Researchers identify gene associated with muscular dystrophy-related vision problems
• Eye / Vision Problems • Apr 21 09
Skeletal muscle disease and vision deficits might seem unrelated, but a frog model of muscular dystrophy shows it is not such a leap.
Facioscapulohumeral…
New therapies expected to help reduce future visual burden of age-related eye disease
• Eye / Vision Problems • Apr 14 09
The prevalence of the eye disease age-related macular degeneration is projected to increase substantially by 2050, but the use of new therapies is expected…
New, simple method identifies preterm infants at risk of eye disease
• Children's Health • • Eye / Vision Problems • Apr 08 09
A simple way of establishing which preterm infants are at risk of developing the eye disease ROP is to follow their weight gain. A…
Serious Vision Problems in Urban Preschoolers Rare but Not That Rare
• Children's Health • • Eye / Vision Problems • Apr 01 09
In what is believed to be the first comprehensive eye disease study among urban pre-schoolers, Johns Hopkins investigators report that while vision problems…
Weight testing predicts eye disease in preemies
• Children's Health • • Eye / Vision Problems • Apr 01 09
Weekly weight measurements can accurately predict which preterm babies are likely to develop retinopathy of prematurity, a potentially blinding condition that requires treatment, according…
Action video games improve vision
• Children's Health • • Eye / Vision Problems • Mar 30 09
Video games that involve high levels of action, such as first-person-shooter games, increase a player’s real-world vision, according to research in today’s Nature Neuroscience.
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