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Why Our Peripheral Vision May Not Be As Random As We Think

Categorie : Eye Health / Optometry
As you read this, you may notice that the word directly in front of you is clear, but all the surrounding words are hard to make out. For most people, this effect - known as 'crowding' - is not a problem... ...

read more As you read this, you may notice that the word directly in front of you is clear, but all the surrounding words are hard to make out. For most people, this effect - known as 'crowding' - is not a problem... read more Sat Mar 2010

Chickens May Provide Clues to Color Vision

Categorie : Eye Health / Optometry
Title: Chickens May Provide Clues to Color VisionCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/19/2010 4:10:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 2/22/2010 ...

read more Title: Chickens May Provide Clues to Color VisionCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/19/2010 4:10:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 2/22/2010 read more Fri Mar 2010

Glaucoma Begins in Mid-Brain, Not in Eye, Research Shows (HealthDay)

Categorie : Eye Health / Optometry
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 3 (HealthDay News) -- Early signs of glaucoma can be detected in the brain, according to a new study that may trigger a major change in how the disease is treated. ...

read more HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 3 (HealthDay News) -- Early signs of glaucoma
can be detected in the brain, according to a new study that may trigger a
major change in how the disease is treated. read more Fri Mar 2010

All Eyes On Retinal Degeneration

Categorie : Eye Health / Optometry
Research by Johns Hopkins sensory biologists studying fruit flies, has revealed a critical step in fly vision. Humans with problems in this same step suffer retinal dystrophies, which manifest as visual defects ranging from mild visual impairments to complete blindness. The article, published Jan... ...

read more Research by Johns Hopkins sensory biologists studying fruit flies, has revealed a critical step in fly vision. Humans with problems in this same step suffer retinal dystrophies, which manifest as visual defects ranging from mild visual impairments to complete blindness. The article, published Jan... read more Fri Mar 2010

Green Tea May Protect Against Eye Diseases

Categorie : Eye Health / Optometry
New research from Hong Kong suggests that green tea may protect against eye diseases such as glaucoma because the researchers found green tea antioxidants called catechins present in various tissue structures in the eyes of laboratory rats after they had ingested green tea... ...

read more New research from Hong Kong suggests that green tea may protect against eye diseases such as glaucoma because the researchers found green tea antioxidants called catechins present in various tissue structures in the eyes of laboratory rats after they had ingested green tea... read more Fri Mar 2010

VEGF Trap-Eye Shows Positive Results In Phase II Study In Patients With Diabetic Macular Edema

Categorie : Eye Health / Optometry
Bayer HealthCare AG and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: REGN) announced that VEGF Trap-Eye showed positive results in a Phase II study in patients with Diabetic Macular Edema (DME). The primary endpoint of the study, a statistically significant improvement in visual acuity over 24 weeks com ...

read more Bayer HealthCare AG and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: REGN) announced that VEGF Trap-Eye showed positive results in a Phase II study in patients with Diabetic Macular Edema (DME). The primary endpoint of the study, a statistically significant improvement in visual acuity over 24 weeks com read more Fri Mar 2010

New Evidence That Green Tea May Help Fight Glaucoma And Other Eye Diseases

Categorie : Eye Health / Optometry
Scientists have confirmed that the healthful substances found in green tea - renowned for their powerful antioxidant and disease-fighting properties - do penetrate into tissues of the eye. Their new report, the first documenting how the lens, retina, and other eye tissues absorb these substances, ra ...

read more Scientists have confirmed that the healthful substances found in green tea - renowned for their powerful antioxidant and disease-fighting properties - do penetrate into tissues of the eye. Their new report, the first documenting how the lens, retina, and other eye tissues absorb these substances, ra read more Fri Mar 2010

VEGF Trap-Eye Shows Positive Results In A Phase 2 Study In Patients With Diabetic Macular Edema

Categorie : Eye Health / Optometry
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: REGN) and Bayer HealthCare AG announced that VEGF Trap-Eye showed positive results in a Phase 2 study in patients with diabetic macular edema (DME). The primary endpoint of the study, a statistically significant improvement in visual acuity over 24 weeks com ...

read more Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: REGN) and Bayer HealthCare AG announced that VEGF Trap-Eye showed positive results in a Phase 2 study in patients with diabetic macular edema (DME). The primary endpoint of the study, a statistically significant improvement in visual acuity over 24 weeks com read more Fri Mar 2010

What Is Long-sightedness Or Farsightedness? What Is Hyperopia?

Categorie : Eye Health / Optometry
Hyperopia, also called farsightedness (far-sightedness), long-sightedness (longsightedness) or hypermetropia is a common vision defect in which the individual has difficulty focusing on near objects. In extreme cases of hyperopia the person can only focus on objects that are fairly far away - in ver ...

read more Hyperopia, also called farsightedness (far-sightedness), long-sightedness (longsightedness) or hypermetropia is a common vision defect in which the individual has difficulty focusing on near objects. In extreme cases of hyperopia the person can only focus on objects that are fairly far away - in ver read more Fri Mar 2010

Academy Provides Membership To Haitian Ophthalmologists To Help Rebuild Eye Care

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In light of the recent tragedy in Haiti, the American Academy of Ophthalmology (Academy) has granted complimentary membership for 2010 and 2011 for all Haitian ophthalmologists... ...

read more In light of the recent tragedy in Haiti, the American Academy of Ophthalmology (Academy) has granted complimentary membership for 2010 and 2011 for all Haitian ophthalmologists... read more Fri Mar 2010

NIH Proposes Revising Embryonic Stem Cell Definition

Categorie : Eye Health / Optometry
NIH on Friday proposed a small change to its definition of embryonic stem cells "that could have a big effect on [stem cells'] long-term ability to lead to cures for a variety of diseases," the Los Angeles Times' "Booster Shots" reports (Kaplan, "Booster Shots," Los Angeles Times, 2/19)... ...

read more NIH on Friday proposed a small change to its definition of embryonic stem cells read more Fri Mar 2010

New Strategy Develops Two Prototype Drugs Against Cancer, Retinal Diseases

Categorie : Eye Health / Optometry
A comprehensive drug development strategy that starts with extensive screening of potential targeting agents and then narrows down to a small-molecule prototype has yielded two potential drugs that block cancer-promoting pathways in novel ways, a team led by scientists at The University of Texas M. ...

read more A comprehensive drug development strategy that starts with extensive screening of potential targeting agents and then narrows down to a small-molecule prototype has yielded two potential drugs that block cancer-promoting pathways in novel ways, a team led by scientists at The University of Texas M. read more Fri Mar 2010

Stem Cells Restore Sight In Mouse Model Of Retinitis Pigmentosa

Categorie : Eye Health / Optometry
An international research team led by Columbia University Medical Center successfully used mouse embryonic stem cells to replace diseased retinal cells and restore sight in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa. This strategy could potentially become a new treatment for retinitis pigmentosa, a leadi ...

read more An international research team led by Columbia University Medical Center successfully used mouse embryonic stem cells to replace diseased retinal cells and restore sight in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa. This strategy could potentially become a new treatment for retinitis pigmentosa, a leadi read more Fri Mar 2010

Earlier Introduction To Long Cane Benefits Visually Impaired Children

Categorie : Eye Health / Optometry
AER Journal When "T" started kindergarten, she was an independent, confident child who was fully able to move about in her new environment even though she was the only visually impaired child in her school and used a long cane. T was born in 2003 with Leber's congenital amaurosis, a rare inherited e ...

read more AER Journal When read more Fri Mar 2010

Quark Announces Dosing Of The First Patient In Phase I Clinical Trial Of Its Ocular Neuroprotective Agent, QPI-1007

Categorie : Eye Health / Optometry
Quark Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a world leader in the discovery and development of RNAi-based therapeutics, announced the dosing of the first patient in a Phase I study of the investigational neuroprotective agent, QPI-1007. This drug candidate, having a proprietary siRNA structure, is being developed ...

read more Quark Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a world leader in the discovery and development of RNAi-based therapeutics, announced the dosing of the first patient in a Phase I study of the investigational neuroprotective agent, QPI-1007. This drug candidate, having a proprietary siRNA structure, is being developed read more Fri Mar 2010

Endemic Trachoma Still A Major Problem In Indigenous Communities, Australia

Categorie : Eye Health / Optometry
Blinding endemic trachoma remains a major public health problem in many Indigenous communities, despite the knowledge that has been gathered about its control since the 1930s, according to the authors of a study published in the Medical Journal of Australia... ...

read more Blinding endemic trachoma remains a major public health problem in many Indigenous communities, despite the knowledge that has been gathered about its control since the 1930s, according to the authors of a study published in the Medical Journal of Australia... read more Fri Mar 2010

Sunridge Receives Approval For Its Non-Invasive Glaucoma Treatment In China

Categorie : Eye Health / Optometry
Sunridge International (OTC Bulletin Board: SNDZ), announced that China's State Food and Drug Administration, (SFDA), had approved the firm's Pneumatic Trabeculoplasty (PNT) treatment in China. In making the announcement today, Sunridge International's CEO, G... ...

read more Sunridge International (OTC Bulletin Board: SNDZ), announced that China's State Food and Drug Administration, (SFDA), had approved the firm's Pneumatic Trabeculoplasty (PNT) treatment in China. In making the announcement today, Sunridge International's CEO, G... read more Fri Mar 2010

Early Signs Of Glaucoma Discovered In The Brain

Categorie : Eye Health / Optometry
Researchers at the Vanderbilt Eye Institute are now a step closer to deciphering a leading cause of blindness in the United States - glaucoma. In a recent study, David Calkins, Ph.D., director of Research at the VEI, discovered that the first sign of injury in glaucoma actually occurs in the brain.. ...

read more Researchers at the Vanderbilt Eye Institute are now a step closer to deciphering a leading cause of blindness in the United States - glaucoma. In a recent study, David Calkins, Ph.D., director of Research at the VEI, discovered that the first sign of injury in glaucoma actually occurs in the brain.. read more Fri Mar 2010

Short- And Long-Term Promise From Newer Cornea Transplant Surgery

Categorie : Eye Health / Optometry
One year post-surgery, patients who underwent Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) experienced greater cell loss overall compared to those who underwent penetrating keratoplasty (PKP), according to a new analysis of data collected from the Cornea Donor Study (CDS) Investig ...

read more One year post-surgery, patients who underwent Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) experienced greater cell loss overall compared to those who underwent penetrating keratoplasty (PKP), according to a new analysis of data collected from the Cornea Donor Study (CDS) Investig read more Fri Mar 2010

World Glaucoma Week

Categorie : Eye Health / Optometry
Glaucoma Research Foundation (GRF) joins eye health organizations and eyecare professionals worldwide for World Glaucoma Week, March 7 to 13, 2010. The observation is designed to spread awareness and understanding about the importance of early detection of glaucoma, the world's second leading cause ...

read more Glaucoma Research Foundation (GRF) joins eye health organizations and eyecare professionals worldwide for World Glaucoma Week, March 7 to 13, 2010. The observation is designed to spread awareness and understanding about the importance of early detection of glaucoma, the world's second leading cause read more Fri Mar 2010

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