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 screening before kindergarten, statistics say. When they do, the vision screenings they typically receive …
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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 undergo laser eye surgery – an advance that could relieve patients of the burden of repeatedly placing dr…
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 and no early symptoms. Once vision is lost, it’s permanent…
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 mouse eyes and improves the vision of older mice significantly…
Brain Circuits For Visual Categorization Revealed By New Experiments
Hundreds of times during a baseball game, the home plate umpire must instantaneously categorize a fast-moving pitch as a ball or a strike. In new research from the University of Chicago, scientists have pinpointed an area in the brain where these kinds…
Glaucoma Measurements Can Be Affected By Contact Lenses
A study about how wearing contact lenses affects glaucoma measurements has been named the top presentation at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine’s annual St. Albert’s Day research symposium. First author of the study is Marie Brenner,…
Gene Identified As A New Target For Treatment Of Aggressive Childhood Eye Tumor
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital – Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project findings help solve mystery of retinoblastoma’s rapid growth in work that also yields a new treatment target and possible therapy New findings from the St…
Age-Related Blindness May Be Warded Off By Grapes
Can eating grapes slow or help prevent the onset of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a debilitating condition affecting millions of elderly people worldwide? Results from a new study published in Free Radical Biology and Medicine suggest this mi…
Increasing Need For Rehabilitation For Eye Disease
Visual rehabilitation will continue to increase in importance in the near future, particularly because the number of older patients is rising. Susanne Trauzettel-Klosinski summarizes the present state of knowledge in the current issue of the Deutsches …
Control Of A "Blind" Neuroreceptor With An Optical Switch
When nerve cells communicate with one another, specialized receptor molecules on their surfaces play a central role in relaying signals between them. A collaborative venture involving teams of chemists based at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) i…
ED Eye Care In Florida – A Payment Review
A major part of Florida’s emergency department eye care is reimbursed through Medicaid or paid for directly by the patients. According to a study published in the Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, these findings may be benef…
Dilated Eye Exams For Medicare Beneficiaries Cost Effective, USA
A study published Online First in the Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, suggests that it “would be highly cost-effective” to replace visual acuity screenings for new Medicare enrollees with coverage of a dilated eye exam for…
New Research Helps Explain How The Brain Decides What Is A Face And What Just Resembles One
Objects that resemble faces are everywhere. Whether it’s New Hampshire’s erstwhile granite “Old Man of the Mountain,” or Jesus’ face on a tortilla, our brains are adept at locating images that look like faces. However, the normal human brain is almost …
Flexible Adult Stem Cells, Right There In Your Eye
In the future, patients in need of perfectly matched neural stem cells may not need to look any further than their own eyes. Researchers reporting in the January issue of Cell Stem Cell, a Cell Press publication, have identified adult stem cells of th…
Pioneering Vision Study In Mice Will Help Revolutionize The Study Of Brain Function And Mental Disease
There’s a 3-D world in our brains. It’s a landscape that mimics the outside world, where the objects we see exist as collections of neural circuits and electrical impulses. Now, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies are using new tool…
For Kids With Near-Vision Disorder, Treatment Reduces Problems At School
For children with convergence insufficiency (CI) who have difficulty focusing on objects close up effective treatments can help to reduce problems at school, reports a study in the January issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the …
Latitude And Gender Influences Glaucoma Risk
When it comes to whether or not you will develop exfoliation syndrome (ES) — an eye condition that is a leading cause of secondary open-angle glaucoma and increased risk of cataract as well as cataract surgery complications — age, gender and where yo…
Denali Concrete Management Inc. Announces The Commencement Of Patient Enrollment For The Phase 3 Dry Eye Syndrome Study
Denali Concrete Management Inc. (OTCBB: DCMG) announced that it has commenced patient enrollment for a phase 3 clinical study of the safety and efficacy of CF101, daily administered orally, in patients with moderate-to-severe Dry Eye Syndrome. This mul…
Durezol And Durasal, Don’t Get Them Mixed Up, FDA Warns
Eye drug Durezol (difluprednate ophthalmic emulsion) and wart remover Durasal (salicylic acid) may sound similar, but getting them mixed up can happen, and with potentially serious consequences, the Food and Drug Administration has warned doctors, phar…
Breakthrough In Treatment To Prevent Blindness
A UCSF study shows a popular treatment for a potentially blinding eye infection is just as effective if given every six months versus annually. This randomized study on trachoma, the leading cause of infection-caused blindness in the world, could poten…