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macular degeneration - Google News
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Maintaining healthy vision - Wicked Local
Maintaining healthy vision
Wicked Local
Here, we take a look at two common eye problems ? cataracts and macular degeneration ? and discuss with vision specialists what patients should look out for, what...
Stem Cells: New Hope for Macular Degeneration - WebMD
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Stem Cells: New Hope for Macular Degeneration
WebMD
23, 2012 -- Two legally blind women with macular degeneration are the first people ever to get new retina cells grown from human ...
Macular Degeneration Specialists Introduce New Eye Vitamin Called Focus Macul...
Macular Degeneration Specialists Introduce New Eye Vitamin Called Focus MaculaPro
Sacramento Bee
31, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Summary: Over 400 retina specialists, the doctors who treat macular de...
Macular Degeneration Specialists Introduce New Eye Vitamin Called Focus Macul...
Macular Degeneration Specialists Introduce New Eye Vitamin Called Focus MaculaPro
PR Newswire (press release)
31, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Summary: Over 400 retina specialists, the doctors who treat ...
StemCells Trial On Dry AMD Treatment Approved By FDA - Wall Street Journal
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StemCells Trial On Dry AMD Treatment Approved By FDA
Wall Street Journal
Drug researcher StemCells Inc. (STEM) said it received US Food and Drug Administration authorization to start a clinical t...
Macular Degeneration AMD Treatment Advances Mark Awareness in Maine - EIN New...
Macular Degeneration AMD Treatment Advances Mark Awareness in Maine
EIN News (press release)
Eyecare Medical Group in Portland, Maine raises awareness about Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) as bei...
This Vitamin Found to Rejuvenate Aging Eyes - Food Consumer
This Vitamin Found to Rejuvenate Aging Eyes
Food Consumer
Improvements included: The findings suggest vitamin D3 may very well help prevent age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which is the most comm...
US stem cell company given green light for blindness trials - BioNews
US stem cell company given green light for blindness trials
BioNews
This is the latest in a number of clinical trials assessing the potential use of stem cells as a treatment for dry age-related macular...
North Indians have healthier eyes than those in south: Study - India Today
India Today
North Indians have healthier eyes than those in south: Study
India Today
These pigments also protect the eyes against cataract, age-related macular degeneration and blindness, and are present...
CABERNET study does not meet primary endpoint at 2 years - OSN SuperSite
OSN SuperSite
CABERNET study does not meet primary endpoint at 2 years
OSN SuperSite
MIAMI ? Visual acuity results for epimacular brachytherapy to treat wet age-related macular degeneration did not meet ...
macular degeneration - Yahoo! News Search Results
macular degeneration - Yahoo! News Search Results
Macular Degeneration Specialists Introduce New Eye Vitamin Called Focus Macul...
GREENBELT, Md., Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Summary: Over 400 retina specialists, the doctors who treat macular degeneration, start a new co...
Macular Damaged Vision Improved with Stem Cells
The use of stem cells offers a new form of treatment for Macular Degeneration. Read the article and learn more about macular degeneration and results ...
Age-related macular degeneration
February has been designated Macular Degeneration Month by the Prevent Blindness Society of the United States. I will spend the next few columns discu...
Stem Cells: New Hope for Macular Degeneration
Title: Stem Cells: New Hope for Macular Degeneration Category: Health News Created: 1/24/2012 11:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 1/24/2012
CMH seminar will focus on age-related macular degeneration
Age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss in older Americans, is the focus of a free seminar.
Macular Degeneration AMD Treatment Advances Mark Awareness in Maine
Eyecare Medical Group in Portland, Maine raises awareness about Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) as being the leading cause of visual impairment...
Research and Markets: Global Age-Related Macular Degeneration Drug Pipeline C...
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Age-Related Macular Degeneration Drug Pipeline
Giving sight to macular degeneration patients
Stem cell treatments have yielded positive results in patients who lost their vision because of macular degeneration
FDA-approved device to detect macular degeneration raising $2 million
A company with a medical device to detect early onset of age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in adults ages 50 or older, ...
Small Stem Cell Study Claims Early Success in Treating Eye Disease
MONDAY, Jan. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Using human embryonic stem cells to treat the eye disease macular degeneration appears to be safe and leads to som...
MedicineNet Eyesight General
MedicineNet Eyesight General
Experimental Contacts May Ease Pain After Laser Eye Surgery
Title: Experimental Contacts May Ease Pain After Laser Eye Surgery
Category: Health News
Created: 1/21/2012 11:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 1/23/2012
Most Contact Lens Users Don't Follow Safety Steps
Title: Most Contact Lens Users Don't Follow Safety Steps
Category: Health News
Created: 12/10/2011 11:01:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 12/12/2011
Few Contact Lens Users Follow All Care Guidelines, Study Finds
Title: Few Contact Lens Users Follow All Care Guidelines, Study Finds
Category: Health News
Created: 12/3/2011 10:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 12/5/20...
Sty (Stye)
Title: Sty (Stye)
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 4/18/2006
Last Editorial Review: 11/30/2011
Vision Problems Decreasing in People With Diabetes
Title: Vision Problems Decreasing in People With Diabetes
Category: Health News
Created: 11/18/2011 11:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 11/18/2011
More CooperVision Contact Lenses Recalled
Title: More CooperVision Contact Lenses Recalled
Category: Health News
Created: 11/18/2011 11:01:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 11/18/2011
Toxoplasmosis
Title: Toxoplasmosis
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 12/15/1998 10:39:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 10/25/2011
Restore Your Near Vision -- Without Reading Glasses
Title: Restore Your Near Vision -- Without Reading Glasses
Category: Health News
Created: 10/25/2011 11:01:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 10/25/2011
Muted Contact Lens Recall Irks FDA
Title: Muted Contact Lens Recall Irks FDA
Category: Health News
Created: 10/14/2011 11:01:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 10/14/2011
Sjogren's Syndrome
Title: Sjogren's Syndrome
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 9/30/2011
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Windows To The Mind
The eyes are the window into the soul - or at least the mind, according to a new paper published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal o...
Researchers Develop Gene Therapy That Could Correct A Common Form Of Blindness
A new gene therapy method developed by University of Florida researchers has the potential to treat a common form of blindness that strikes both young...
Retinitis Pigmentosa In Dogs Cured By Gene Therapy
Members of a University of Pennsylvania research team have shown that they can prevent, or even reverse, a blinding retinal disease, X-linked Retiniti...
Stem Cell Treatment For Blindness Shows Promise In Trials
The first published results of trials using cells derived from human embryonic stem cells appear to show they have passed an initial safety hurdle...
How Protein In Teardrops Annihilates Harmful Bacteria
A disease-fighting protein in our teardrops has been tethered to a tiny transistor, enabling UC Irvine scientists to discover exactly how it destroys ...
Risk Of Blindness Halved Over Last Decade
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most frequent cause of blindness in the Western World. A report from the University of Copenhagen and Gl...
Invention Makes Children Eye Exams Inexpensive, Comprehensive, And Simple To ...
Eighty-five percent of children's learning is related to vision. Yet in the U.S., 80 percent of children have never had an eye exam or any vision scre...
Extended Pain Relief For Laser Eye Surgery Patients Via Contact Lenses
Scientists are reporting development of contact lenses that could provide a continuous supply of anesthetic medication to the eyes of patients who und...
Glaucoma Origins May Lead Potential Cure
Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness. Nearly 4 million Americans have the disorder, which affects 70 million worldwide. There is no cure ...
Vitamin D Could Help Combat The Effects Of Aging In Eyes
Researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have found that vitamin D reduces the effects of ageing in mo...
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Eye is the official journal of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. It aims to provide the practising ophthalmologist with information on the latest clinical and laboratory-based research.
World Glaucoma Day, 6 March 2008: tackling glaucoma internationally
World Glaucoma Day, 6 March 2008: tackling glaucoma internationally
Eye advance online publication, February 15, 2008.
doi:10.1038/eye.2008....
Validity of EuroQOL-5D, time trade-off, and standard gamble for age-related m...
Validity of EuroQOL-5D, time trade-off, and standard gamble for age-related macular degeneration in the Singapore population
Eye advance online publ...
Multidisciplinary management of periocular necrotising fasciitis: a series of...
Multidisciplinary management of periocular necrotising fasciitis: a series of 11 patients
Eye advance online publication, December 9, 2011.
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A case of African crystalline maculopathy
A case of African crystalline maculopathy
Eye advance online publication, January 6, 2012.
doi:10.1038/eye.2011.251
Authors: A Dhital
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Individualised patient care as an adjunct to standard care for promoting adhe...
Individualised patient care as an adjunct to standard care for promoting adherence to ocular hypotensive therapy: an exploratory randomised controlle...
Spectral- and time-domain optical coherence tomography measurements of macula...
Spectral- and time-domain optical coherence tomography measurements of macular thickness in normal eyes and in eyes with diabetic macular edema
Eye ...
The island of ischaemia: submacular choroidal nonperfusion in giant cell arte...
The island of ischaemia: submacular choroidal nonperfusion in giant cell arteritis
Eye advance online publication, December 2, 2011.
doi:10....
Alternative diagnoses with ectopia lentis
Alternative diagnoses with ectopia lentis
Eye advance online publication, December 2, 2011.
doi:10.1038/eye.2011.306
Authors: A Chandra, J ...
Response to ?Alternative diagnoses with ectopia lentis?
Response to ‘Alternative diagnoses with ectopia lentis’
Eye advance online publication, December 2, 2011.
doi:10.1038/eye.2011.3...
Visual function alterations in orbital tumors and factors predicting visual o...
Visual function alterations in orbital tumors and factors predicting visual outcome after surgery
Eye advance online publication, December 9, 2011.
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Green Tea Protects Against Functional Disability Linked To Aging
Regular green tea drinkers have a lower risk of developing functional disability, researchers from Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Send...
Insight Into Cell Aging Likely Following Discovery Of Extremely Long-Lived Pr...
One of the big mysteries in biology is why cells age. Now scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that they have discovered a w...
Geriatric Patients At High Risk Of Vitamin D Deficiency
The great majority of geriatric patients in a German rehabilitation hospital were found to have vitamin D deficiency. Stefan Schilling presents his st...
When Caring For Older People, Dignity Counts
Older people feel that their health problems pose a challenge to their sense of independence, dignity and identity and sometimes the health care they ...
Study Of Identical Twins Reveals Mechanisms Behind Aging
In a recent study led by Uppsala University, the researchers compared the DNA of identical (monozygotic) twins of different age. They could show that ...
Baby Boomers Getting More Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Baby boomers in the leading three English-speaking economies, the USA, UK and Canada, are being diagnosed at progressively higher rates of sexually tr...
Distinguishing Between The Forgetful And Those At Risk Of Alzheimer's Disease
It can be difficult to distinguish between people with normal age-associated memory loss and those with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI). How...
Link Between Insulin Resistance And Brain Health In Elderly
New research from Uppsala University shows that reduced insulin sensitivity is linked to smaller brain size and deteriorated language skills in senior...
An Explanation For Why The Brain May Become More Reluctant To Function As We ...
New findings, led by neuroscientists at the University of Bristol and published this week in the journal Neurobiology of Aging, reveal a novel mechani...
Long-Term Financial Disadvantage Faced By Those Who Retire Early Due To Back ...
Back problems are a highly prevalent health issue, and people with the condition have a significantly greater chance of retiring early from the workfo...
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