Researchers have developed a new “video” game for blind people that can help them learn about a new space using only audio cues, as reported in the open access journal PLOS ONE…
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Patients With Open-Angle Glaucoma Account For A Large Part Of Costs
A small subset of patients with open-angle glaucoma (OAG) account for a large proportion of all glaucoma-related charges in the United States, according to new data published by researchers at the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center and Washingto…
Mechanism Identified That Leads To Diabetes, Blindness
The rare disorder Wolfram syndrome is caused by mutations in a single gene, but its effects on the body are far reaching. The disease leads to diabetes, hearing and vision loss, nerve cell damage that causes motor difficulties, and early death. Now, re…
Light-Sensitive Moiety Added To Anesthetic Propofol Allowing Control Of Narcotic Effect By Light – May Treat Certain Eye Diseases
In a new study, a light-sensitive moiety has been added to propofol, a commonly used anesthetic, allowing its narcotic effect to be controlled by light. The compound also offers a possible route to the treatment of certain eye diseases. Inhibitory neu…
GEN Reports On Ocular Therapeutics Targeting The Retina
Therapies for retinal diseases are expected to overtake those for glaucoma by 2014, reports Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN). Because current retinal disease treatments only improve vision for six to eight weeks, there is a critical need…
Singapore Scientists Find Genes Associated With Glaucoma, A Major Cause Of Eye Blindness
Singapore scientists have identified three new genes associated with Primary Angle Closure Glaucoma (PACG), a leading cause of blindness in Chinese people. PACG affects 15 million people worldwide, 80% of whom live in Asia…
World’s First Bionic Eye Implant In Melbourne
Bionic Vision Australia researchers have successfully performed the first bionic eye implant of an early prototype at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne. The bionic eye was implanted in a woman who has profound vision loss due to re…
Lucentis® (Ranibizumab) For Treating Visual Impairment Due To Diabetic Macular Oedema, Study Shows New Evidence
RESTORE extension study demonstrates fully maintained initial vision gains with an average of 13.9 ranibizumab 0…
Our Brains Make Men And Women See Things Differently
According to a new study, published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Biology of Sex Differences, men and women have different ways of using the visual centers of their brains. Experts suggest that while females are better at distinguishing col…
The Eyes Have It: Men Do See Things Differently To Women
The way that the visual centers of men and women’s brains works is different, finds new research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Biology of Sex Differences. Men have greater sensitivity to fine detail and rapidly moving stimuli, but …
A Method Designed For Detecting Certain Neurological Disorders Through The Study Of Eye Movements
In a study published in the Journal of Neurology, researchers claim that because Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and Parkinson’s Disease (PD) each involve ocular control and attention dysfunctions…
Adhesive May Improve Safety Of LASIK Eye Surgery
Kansas State University researchers have developed a glue mixture that may reduce risks after laser vision correction surgery. Stacy Littlechild, a recent bachelor’s degree graduate in biology originally from Wakeeney, is the lead author of two studies…
River Blindness Research Looks At How The Parasite Thrives
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that the worm which causes River Blindness survives by using a bacterium to provide energy, as well as help ‘trick’ the body’s immune system into thinking it is fighting a different kind of infection…
Mechanism Responsible For Eye Movement Disorder Identified
Discovery could lead to therapies for this condition, and a better understanding of how genetic mutations in the nervous system cause movement disorders in other parts of the body with a long term view to encouraging the re-growth of damaged cells A re…
Potential Target For Treatment Of Retinitis Pigmentosa
Research conducted at the Angiogenesis Laboratory at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, has for the first time, identified the mode of death of cone photoreceptor cells in an animal model of retinitis pigmentosa (RP). This groundbreaking study, led b…
What Is A Black Eye? What Is A Periorbital Hematoma?
A black eye, also known as a periorbital hematoma or a shiner, refers to bruising of the tissue under the skin around the eye. In the majority of cases the injury was not to the eye itself, but rather to the face. The patient may have been struck on th…
Diagnosis Of Neural Diseases Through The Eyes Using Color-Coded Markers
Sticky plaques of proteins called amyloids mark several different, though related degenerative brain diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Creutzfeld-Jacobs. The symptoms of these disorders overlap and methods to diagnose and monitor them are…
Effective Prosthetic Retinal Device For Blindness
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reports a major breakthrough by two Weill Cornell Medical College researchers in the longstanding efforts of restoring sight. The team managed to decipher the retina’s neural code from a mouse …
Artificial Retina Restores Sight In Blind Mice
Two researchers in the US have taken a huge step forward in developing technology to help blind people see: they have made an artificial retina that restored normal vision in blind mice. And they have already worked out a way to make a similar device …
Lucentis (Ranibizumab Injection) Approved For Diabetic Macular Edema Treatment By FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Lucentis to treat diabetic macular edema, an eye disease that occurs in people with diabetes. Along with good diabetic blood sugar control, Lucentis is an injection given by a health professional onc…