New research from Japan suggests that blinking does more than stop our eyes drying out: it is an active process that causes the brain to go off-line, into a more reflective mode, before giving renewed attention. Tamami Nakano of Osaka University and c…
Glaucoma likely to end in visual impairment
Visual impairment at the end of life is highly likely to occur in patients with glaucoma, show Dutch study results.
Abnormally narrow retinal arteries linked to increased risk for glaucoma
A new study finds that certain changes in blood vessels in the eye’s retina can be an early warning that a person is at increased risk for glaucoma, an eye disease that slowly robs people of their peripheral vision.
2 Novel Treatments For Retinitis Pigmentosa Move Closer To Clinical Trials
Two recent experimental treatments – one involving skin-derived induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell grafts, the other gene therapy – have been shown to produce long-term improvement in visual function in mouse models of retinitis pigmentosa (RP), acco…
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5 Questions With Brian Little, MA, DO, FRCS, FRCOphth
h3How would you describe patients’
acceptance of laser cataract surgery?/h3
Laser cataract surgery has understandably
created a groundswell of excitement
and stimulated much debate among ophthalmologists.
I remain unconvinced that
th…
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Optimizing Visual Results With a Femtosecond Laser
Femtosecond lasers emit ultrashort optical pulses
that are measured in femtoseconds (1 fs =
10-15 s). Shorter pulses translate as less energy
expended overall for a given dimension and
cause less damage to ocular structures, particularly the
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