Armed with a new ability to find retinal anomalies at the cellular level, neurobiologists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have made a discovery they hope will ultimately lead to a treatment for cancer of the retina. While much work remains, O…
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FDA Collaborates To Work Against Rare Cataract Condition
Toxic Anterior Segment Syndrome (TASS) is a rare condition that can occur after cataract surgery. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration in collaboration with other Government agencies, unveiled a program today to monitor medical devices used in catarac…
Researchers Discover Hereditary Predisposition Of Melanoma Of The Eye
Ohio State University researchers have discovered a hereditary cancer syndrome that predisposes certain people to a melanoma of the eye, along with lung cancer, brain cancer and possibly other types of cancer. The hereditary cancer syndrome is caused b…
Potential Treatment For Macular Degeneration And Retinitis Pigmentosa Uses Nanoparticles To Deliver Steroids To Retina
Hitching a ride into the retina on nanoparticles called dendrimers offers a new way to treat age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa…
New Role For Hormones In Bardet-Biedl Syndrome Revealed By Worms
A new study, conducted by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, has shed new light on a genetic disease known as Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) – a condition in which patients show mental and developmental delays, short stature, earl…
An Acceptable Alternative To Surgery In Patients With Mild Trachomatous Trichiasis – Self-Epilation
Self-epilation is an acceptable alternative to surgery in patients with mild trachomatous trichiasis Teaching patients with mild trachomatous trichiasis – a leading cause of blindness in low resource countries in which chronic conjunctivitis leads to s…
Gene Found In Humans And Mice That Protects Transparency Of Cornea, May Lead To New Therapy
A transparent cornea is essential for vision, which is why the eye has evolved to nourish the cornea without blood vessels. But for millions of people around the world, diseases of the eye or trauma spur the growth of blood vessels and can cause blindn…
A New Way To Target Cancer Through Manipulating A Master Switch Responsible For Cancer Cell Growth
Scientists have discovered a new way to target cancer through manipulating a master switch responsible for cancer cell growth. The findings, published in the journal Cancer Cell, reveal how cancer cells grow faster by producing their own blood vessels…
Anophthalmia – Babies Born With No Eyes: Scientists Identify Genetic Cause
Scientists at University College Dublin, Ireland, have identified a genetic alteration which causes a child to be born with no eyes – a condition called anophthalmia…
Preventing Trichiasis Recurrence After Surgery – Study Looks At Antibiotic Therapy
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 ey…
AMD Prevalence In India, China and Malaysia Similar
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 destr…
Sequencing Of Mouse Neural Retina
In a new study, researchers have gained fresh insights into neural disease genes by sequencing virtually all the gene expression in the mouse neural retina. The technology to obtain such a “transcriptome” has become accessible enough that full-scale se…
Changes In Bioelectric Signals Cause Tadpoles To Grow Eyes In Back, Tail
For the first time, scientists have altered natural bioelectrical communication among cells to directly specify the type of new organ to be created at a particular location within a vertebrate organism…
Scientists Make Advances In Neuroscience And Vision Research
Thanks to a new study of the retina, scientists at UC Santa Barbara have developed a greater understanding of how the nervous system becomes wired during early development. The findings reflect the expansion of developmental neurobiology and vision res…
Sound And Vision Linked In Perception Of Moving Objects
“Imagine you are playing ping-pong with a friend. Your friend makes a serve. Information about where and when the ball hit the table is provided by both vision and hearing…
Improved Diagnosis And Potential Treatment Of Neuromyelitis Optica
Mayo Clinic researchers have identified critical steps leading to myelin destruction in neuromyelitis optica (NMO), a debilitating neurological disease that is commonly misdiagnosed as multiple sclerosis (MS). The findings could lead to better care for…
New Evidence Of An Unrecognized Visual Process
We don’t see only what meets the eye. The visual system constantly takes in ambiguous stimuli, weighs its options, and decides what it perceives. This normally happens effortlessly. Sometimes, however, an ambiguity is persistent, and the visual system…
Contact Lends Care – Few Do It Properly Although Most Think They Do
According to an investigation in the November issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry, the majority of individuals who wear contact lenses believe that they are following standard guidelines for lens…
Mass Eye And Ear Expands South Shore ENT Practice
Mass. Eye and Ear is pleased to announce that Drs. David Kam, Cathy Chong, and Amee Dharia of the Weymouth based South Suburban Ear, Nose, Throat Associates have joined Mass. Eye and Ear’s physician practice as part of the South Suburban Center of Otol…
Spread Of Aggressive Uveal Melanoma Cells May Be Slowed By Seizure Drug
A drug commonly used to treat seizures appears to make eye tumors less likely to grow if they spread to other parts of the body, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Their findings are available online in t…