Archive for the ‘Eye Health / Blindness’ Category
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Sinisa Grozdanic an assistant professor of Veterinary Clinical Sciences performed the surgery that restored sight to 7-year-old Dixie, a Mountain Cur breed owned by Brett Williams of Runnells."We are excited for Dixie," said Grozdanic. "She was our patient for such a long time and nothing really worked. She was gradually ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
A low-vision rehabilitation program that includes a home visit, counseling, assistive devices such as magnifiers and assignments to practice using them appears to significantly improve vision in veterans with diseases of the macula (the area of the retina with the sharpest vision), according to a report in the May issue ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
The Optometrists Association Australia is urging parents to have their children's eyes tested as new figures show that only 19 per cent of school-aged children had their eyes tested in the past financial year. Medicare figures show that just over 526,000 Australian children aged 5 to 14 were tested in ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
NicOx S.A. (Euronext Paris: COX) announced the results of a U.S. phase 2 study, conducted by its partner Pfizer Inc, which compared the safety and efficacy of various doses of PF-03187207 to Xalatan(R) (latanoprost) 0.005% in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension. The higher doses of PF-03187207 ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Researchers from Vanderbilt University have found that geneticvariation in mitochondrial DNA can affect a person's risk of developingage-related macular degeneration (AMD). The results of this first studythat analyzes the relationship between AMD and changes in themitochondrial genome are published in the open-access journal PLoSONE.AMD is the chief cause of blindness ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
An MIT team has improved upon its landmark technology reported last year in which the researchers used a fingernail-sized lab on a chip to image, perform surgery on and sort tiny worms to study nerve regeneration. The team ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Novagali Pharma, an ophthalmic specialty pharmaceutical company announces the commercial launch in France of its first product Cationorm®. This cationic emulsion is an innovative approach to treat dry eye symptoms. It has been developed on the basis of Novagali Pharma patented technology platform Novasorb®. Dry eye syndrome is the ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
The ocular lens belongs to the optical apparatus and focuses incidental beams of light onto the retina. Now, a research team led by Professor Dr. Jochen Graw of the Institute of Developmental Genetics, of the Helmholtz Zentrum München, has been able to decipher a genetic defect responsible for small eyes ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Carl Zeiss Meditec, a leader in ophthalmic devices and surgical systems, announced today that two new optical coherence tomography (OCT) applications will be available for the first time at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ASCRS) meeting in Chicago, IL at booth 2028. With advanced algorithms available for ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
In just 100 minutes on Wednesday, April 9, the lives of 100 low-income people in cities and towns across the United States will be changed forever, as their failing eyesight goes from murky to new-found clarity at all distances with crystalens® cataract-lens implants, free of charge. Not only can this ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
A major announcement from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) today could kick-start a new era in the treatment of the UK's leading cause of blindness, says the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), following a major announcement today. The long awaited Final Appraisal Document (FAD) ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
SynergEyes, Inc. has launched its revolutionary new hybrid contact lens specifically designed for people over 40 dealing with a vision condition known as presbyopia. The "hybrid" design of the SynergEyes(R) Multifocal bonds a "hard" and "soft" contact lens together resulting ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
The General Optical Council (GOC) has removed from its registers 442 opticians who failed to renew their registration for 2008/9. Included in that total are 184 optometrists,179 dispensing opticians and 79 bodies corporate. Compared to last year's retention process, the number removed for failing to renew has increased by 159 ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. (AMO) (NYSE: EYE), a global leader in ophthalmic surgical devices and eye care products, announced the U.S. introduction of blink® Tears, a new line of over-the-counter lubricating eye drops for the estimated 40 percent of Americans who suffer from occasional or chronic dry eye symptoms. AMO ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Surgeons and patients from UT Southwestern Medical Center and UT Southwestern Transplant Services Center joined in a landmark study showing that corneas from older donors are as successful for transplants after five years as is tissue from younger donors, allowing possible expansion of the donor pool.Based on findings from the ...
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