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Doctor discusses various Glaucoma treatment options and presents Lumenis SLT treatment as one of the beneficial ones.
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Retinitis pigmentosa is a progressive eye disease that ultimately results in blindness for most patients. Now scientists have found a cure that works in dogs and hopefully will be successful in humans as well.
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A clinical study involving stem cell retinal transplants as a potential cure for blindness has made the news lately with cautious optimism regarding whether or not it will actually lead to a cure for some forms of blindness. Read on to discover why a success in a stem cell retinal transplant study may cause blindness of another type in people who do not want to see the future of medicine.
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Using glaucoma risk factor analysis to predict and prevent blindness is a recent prevention measure for early detection of glaucoma, which is the second leading cause of blindness and partial vision loss in the United States.
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While the benefits of daily aspirin use toward reducing the risks of heart disease and stroke currently outweighs the risk of developing blindness through wet macular degeneration, additional research is needed to evaluate the relationship between blindness and aspirin use in the elderly.
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If you or your children have ever suffered with viral pink eye, you know there’s no approved treatment for this highly infectious and uncomfortable eye disease. But that may change in the near future: scientists report they have discovered a potential new drug treatment for epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (“pink eye”).
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Great excitement surrounds the announcement that human embryonic stem cells will be used in a trial to treat patients with Stargardt macular dystrophy. If successful, the new trial, in which experts will use retinal pigment epithelium derived from the human embryonic stem cells, could lead to an effective treatment for Stargardt disease as well as other degenerative eye diseases such as dry age-related macular degeneration.
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Vision changes happen gradually. New research shows six ways our vision changes.
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A clinical trial led by Newcastle University shows that the drug, idebenone (Catena®), improved the vision and perception of colour in patients with Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON). The results of the trial is reported in the July 25 issue of the journal Brain. In the clinical trial, nine patients (12 eyes) out of 36 patients (61 eyes) taking idebenone, had vision improved to the extent that they were able to read at least one row of letters on the chart. In contrast not a single patient of the 26 who were taking the placebo improved to that extent.
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Smartphones and other devices that have 3D (three-dimensional) displays like video games and computers are ubiquitous in our society, but there is a health-related price to be paid. Prolonged use of such 3D items can result in eye or visual discomfort, headaches, and fatigue, according to a new report in the Journal of Vision, and researchers believe they know why.
