Eye and Vision:
Eye and Vision, Eye Glasses, Articles on Vision
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Jun 17th, 2009
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking steps to improve contact lens safety by reminding consumers of the importance of following proper cleaning and storing procedures.
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Jun 13th, 2009
Patients with glaucoma and patients who had corneal swelling following an earlier cataract surgery were more likely to experience failure of the cornea transplant than were other patients in the study.
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Jun 10th, 2009
Dry eye disease is common among American men older than 50 and increases with age, high blood pressure, benign prostate disease and the use of antidepressants.
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Jun 9th, 2009
As part of its '101 Ways You Can Help Fight Cancer' campaign, the Institute for Good Medicine at the Pennsylvania Medical Society has dedicated its next Good Medicine web show on eye cancer and the importance of eye exams for eye cancer detection.
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Jun 8th, 2009
It is very important to be sure that little children do not have problems with a "lazy eye" or strabismus. Unfortunately these days, medical students and pediatrics residents don't seem to be taught how to look for strabismus. If a child has a eye that is not focusing properly and wandering off to one side of the other, then the child's brain will start suppressing the vision in one eye, so that double vision does not occur.
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Jun 3rd, 2009
Our mood literally changes the way our visual system filters our perceptual experience suggesting that seeing the world through rose-coloured glasses is more biological reality than metaphor.
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Apr 20th, 2009
A University of Iowa Health Care research team is participating in a study to investigate the cause of idiopathic intracranial hypertension and test a potential new treatment. Untreated, idiopathic intracranial hypertension may cause blindness.
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Apr 16th, 2009
Patients with a rare, blinding eye disease - autoimmune retinopathy - saw their vision improve after treatment with drugs to suppress their immune systems.
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Apr 7th, 2009
The Hong Kong Department of Health instructed Novartis Pharmaceuticals Ltd, a licensed drug supplier, to recall a batch of eye ointment called Cortiphenol H Eye ointment 2.5 g from the market as the product was found to be a pharmaceutical product the registration of which was expired in December 2007.
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Mar 20th, 2009
To get a better look at the abnormalities that cause age-related macular degeneration (AMD), researchers have created ultra-detailed 3-D images of the eyes of more than 2,000 people from different ethnic groups, 400 of whom have AMD.
