A collaboration of researchers from Wayne State University, the Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins Medicine has discovered a potential new treatment for macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. The investigators managed to attach steroids to dendrimers nanoparticles and showed that the drugs only targeted the activated microglia, the damage-causin (Read more...)

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According to an investigation being published Online First by the Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, in Asia, the prevalence of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) - an eye disease connected with aging that gradually destroys sharp, central vision - is similar among individuals from India, China and Malay...

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A study being published Online First by the Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals reveals that, 10% of patients who received a single dose of oral azithromycin (antibiotic) after surgery for trichiasis (a significant worldwide eye problem) experience trichiasis again compared to 13% of patients who received topical tetracycline therapy, with the protectiv...

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Compared with once-yearly visual examinations, a twice-a-year approach improves detection of disease progression.
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