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Eye problems and Eye Health Articles:
VEGF Inhibition Via TGF-B1 Suggested For Glaucoma Surgery
The most common cause of failure after glaucoma surgery is scarring at the surgical site, so researchers are actively looking for ways to minimize or prevent scar formation. Previous work had suggested that vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) activates fibrosis, whereas VEGF inhibition results in reduced scar formation and better surgical results...
Posted: May 20, 2013, 8:00 am
How One Notch Family Protein, Notch2, Shapes An Eye Structure
A small ensemble of musicians can produce an infinite number of melodies, harmonies and rhythms. So too, do a handful of workhorse signaling pathways that interact to construct multiple structures that comprise the vertebrate body...
Posted: May 16, 2013, 8:00 am
Hearing, Vision Loss And Kidney Disease May Be Impacted By Cilia Research
Experiments at Johns Hopkins have unearthed clues about which protein signaling molecules are allowed into hollow, hair-like "antennae," called cilia, that alert cells to critical changes in their environments. Researchers found that the size limit for entry is much greater than previously thought, allowing most of a cell's proteins into cilia...
Posted: May 14, 2013, 8:00 am
Link Suggested Between Tumor Suppressors And Starvation Survival
A particular tumor suppressor gene* that fights cancer cells does more than clamp down on unabated cell division -- the hallmark of the disease -- it also can help make cells more fit by allowing them to fend off stress, says a University of Colorado Boulder study...
Posted: May 14, 2013, 7:00 am
Vision Scientists Pinpoint How We See Fast-Moving Objects Coming
How does San Francisco Giants slugger Pablo Sandoval swat a 95 mph fastball, or tennis icon Venus Williams see the oncoming ball, let alone return her sister Serena's 120 mph serves? For the first time, vision scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have pinpointed how the brain tracks fast-moving objects...
Posted: May 10, 2013, 8:00 am
Optical Media Changes With Age, But Neural Mechanisms Keep Color Perception Constant
Cone receptors in the human eye lose their color sensitivity with age, but our subjective experience of color remains largely unchanged over the years. This ability to compensate for age-related changes in color perception rests in higher levels of the visual system, according to research published in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Sophie Wuerger from the University of Liverpool, UK...
Posted: May 10, 2013, 8:00 am
Successful Corneal Transplant With Pre-Loaded Donor Tissue: A First For Massachusetts Eye And Ear
The first successful cornea transplant with donor endothelial tissue preloaded by an eye bank has been performed at Massachusetts Eye and Ear in Boston, Mass. Roberto Pineda II, M.D., Director of the Refractive Surgery Service at Mass. Eye and Ear, and an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, recently performed the groundbreaking transplant. Dr...
Posted: May 10, 2013, 7:00 am
Adding Omega-3 Fatty Acids And Lutein/Zeaxanthin To Formulation Does Not Further Reduce Risk Of Progression To Advanced AMD
In a large, multicenter, randomized clinical trial that included persons at high risk for progression to advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD), adding the carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin, the omega-3 fatty acids DHA and EPA, or both to a formulation of antioxidant vitamins and minerals that has shown effectiveness in reducing risk did not further reduce risk of prog...
Posted: May 8, 2013, 9:00 am
New Study Links Lutein, Zeaxanthin And Omega-3 Supplementation With Eye Health Benefits
DSM and Kemin welcome the results of the latest trial to indicate that the nutritional intake of lutein, zeaxanthin and omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFAs) may be beneficial for patients affected by age-related macular degeneration (AMD)...
Posted: May 8, 2013, 9:00 am
Gene Mutations Identified That Are Associated With Nearsightedness
People have long taken for granted that glasses and contact lenses improve vision for nearsightedness, but the genetic factors behind the common condition have remained blurry. Now researchers at Duke Medicine are closer to clearing this up...
Posted: May 6, 2013, 8:00 am
Haptics May Improve Outcomes For People Given Visual Prosthetics
Normal vision is essentially a spatial sense that often relies upon touch and movement during and after development, there is often a correlation between how an object looks and how it feels. Moreover, as a child's senses develop, there is cross-referencing between the various senses. Indeed, where the links between the senses are not made, there may be developmental problems or delays...
Posted: May 4, 2013, 7:00 am
ThromboGenics' JETREA® Available In Germany Public And Private Market
ThromboGenics NV (Euronext Brussels: THR), an integrated biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative ophthalmic medicines, today announces that its partner Alcon has launched JETREA(R) in Germany, the second European market where the product is now available...
Posted: May 4, 2013, 7:00 am
Having Trouble With Your Contact Lenses? Try Different Type Or Change Lens Care Product
If your contact lenses are causing you discomfort, simply switching to a different type of contact lens or lens care product may bring improvement, reports a study, " Effect of Lens and Solution Choice on the Comfort of Contact Lens Wearers", appearing in the May issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry...
Posted: May 3, 2013, 8:00 am
New Data On Impact Of Daylight Exposure On Eye Development
Two new studies add to the growing evidence that spending time outdoors may help prevent or minimize nearsightedness in children. A study conducted in Taiwan, which is the first to use an educational policy as a public vision health intervention, finds that when children are required to spend recess time outdoors, their risk of nearsightedness is reduced...
Posted: May 3, 2013, 8:00 am
Western Researchers Confirm Pine Bark Extract Could Reduce Cataract Risk
A winter after discovering Canada for France, Jacques Cartier's exploration crew started suffering and dying from the dreadful scurvy disease in 1535. But thanks to an Iroquoian healer, they were miraculously cured by a tea made from pine bark...
Posted: April 27, 2013, 7:00 am
Outlook For Minority, Uninsured Pediatric Retinoblastoma Patients Worsened By Delays In Diagnosis
When the eye cancer retinoblastoma is diagnosed in racial and ethnic minority children whose families don't have private health insurance, it often takes a more invasive, potentially life-threatening course than in other children, probably because of delays in diagnosis, Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Center (DF/CHCC) researchers report at the 26th annual meeting of th...
Posted: April 26, 2013, 7:00 am
Promising New Therapeutic Approach To Lazy Eye Disorder
A research team led by Dr. Robert Hess from McGill University and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) has used the popular puzzle video game Tetris in an innovative approach to treat adult amblyopia, commonly known as "lazy eye"...
Posted: April 24, 2013, 8:00 am
Tetris Video Game Helps Treat Lazy Eye
The popular video game Tetris has been found to be effective at treating adult amblyopia, also known as 'lazy eye', according to new research conducted by scientists at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC). As one of the most common causes of visual impairment, amblyopia affects nearly 3 percent of the population...
Posted: April 23, 2013, 8:00 pm
Telescope Implant Improves Vision In Macular Degeneration
Physicians at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center have become the first in Virginia to successfully implant a telescope in a patient's eye to treat macular degeneration. The telescope implant is designed to correct end-stage age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most advanced form of AMD and the leading cause of blindness in older Americans...
Posted: April 17, 2013, 8:00 am
Analysis Of A Novel Adenovirus May Predict The Next Eye Pathogen
The ongoing dance between a virus and its host distinctly shapes how the virus evolves. While human adenoviruses typically cause mild infections, recent reports have described newly characterized adenoviruses that can cause severe, sometime fatal, human infections...
Posted: April 15, 2013, 7:00 am
Side Effect Of Retinal Detachment May Be Prevented By Ranibizumab
Proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR), or the formation of scar tissue in the eye, is a serious, sight-threatening complication in people recovering from surgical repair of retinal detachment. PVR is difficult to predict, lacks effective treatment options, and substantially reduces an individual's quality of life. Each year 55,000 people are at risk for developing PVR in the United States alone...
Posted: April 11, 2013, 8:00 am
Combination Therapy Could Be Key In Treating Blindness
Researchers have discovered that using two kinds of therapy in tandem may be a knockout combo against inherited disorders that cause blindness. While their study focused on man's best friend, the treatment could help restore vision in people, too...
Posted: April 11, 2013, 7:00 am
Rates Of Childhood Squint Surgery Have Plummeted Over Past 50 Years
But there's still inexplicable fivefold difference in rates across England, similar to wide discrepancies in tonsil removal Rates of surgery to correct childhood squint in England have tumbled over the past 50 years, finds research published online in the British Journal of Ophthalmology...
Posted: April 11, 2013, 7:00 am
New Invention Aims To Boost Confidence Of Eye Loss Victims
Researchers at Nottingham Trent University have created an artificial eye with a cosmetic pupil that can dilate and contract in response to light. Using smart materials, the prototype aims to solve the longstanding problem of eye loss victims having two different sized pupils at night or in bright sunshine...
Posted: April 10, 2013, 9:00 am
Transcription Factors Identified That Regulate Retinal Vascularization
The retina is a highly vascularized tissue, but too much or too little vascularization can lead to visual impairment and diseases such as familial exudative vitreoretinopathy or macular degeneration...
Posted: April 9, 2013, 9:00 am
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