A ‘smart’ contact lens that can monitor eye pressure in glaucoma patients 24 hours a day has proven effective for identifying which patients are at risk of disease progression.
Tag: Eye Health / Blindness
Potential new approaches to treating eye diseases
Potential new approaches to treating eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are described in a new study, “IL-33 amplifies an innate immune response in the degenerating…
Patients with macular degeneration show improvement with high-dose statin treatment
Researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School and the University of Crete have conducted a phase I/II clinical trial investigating the efficacy of statins (cholesterol-lowering…
Edited stem cells offer hope of precision therapy for blindness
Findings raise the possibility of treating blinding eye diseases using a patient’s own corrected cells as replacement tissue.
Breakthrough discovery in the genetics of corneal dystrophies
Researchers at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital London, in collaboration with colleagues in the Czech Republic, have discovered a new genetic cause of corneal…
Study: sight loss patients with depression are “routinely overlooked”
A new study has revealed that nearly half of people attending NHS low vision clinics for help with sight loss suffer from symptoms of clinical depression – but they are not being diagnosed or given…
Chickenpox, shingles vaccine may cause corneal inflammation in some patients
Primary care physicians should be aware of possible vision side effect for susceptible patients.
Drug ‘cocktail’ could restore vision in optic nerve injury
Research from Boston Children’s Hospital suggests the possibility of restoring at least some visual function in people blinded by optic nerve damage from glaucoma, estimated to affect more than 4…
Eating your greens might stave off glaucoma
Eating greens is indisputably beneficial for general health, and the latest research says that leafy vegetables might help save your sight, too.
Glaucoma: why are so many of us blind to this sight-stealing disease?
Many people with glaucoma do not realize they have it until they notice some vision loss. We look at the importance of regular eye exams for preventing glaucoma-related blindness.
Largest-ever study of cornea condition reveals hidden risk factors
Keratoconus — which makes eye cone-shaped — associated with African American and Latino heritage, asthma, sleep apnea, Down syndrome.
Study finds that explaining blindness is a struggle
A new study shows that explaining their blindness to others is the biggest difficulty faced by people with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), which results in tunnel vision.
Vision problems in space travelers inform eye health, disease research
Discovery of a genetic link in astronauts with disease-related vision issues suggests such research could lead to treatment options for both space travelers and terrestrials.
Researchers discover three glaucoma-related genes
An analysis funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health, has identified three genes that contribute to the most common type of glaucoma.
Gene editing technique improves vision in rats with inherited blindness
A new technique that has the potential to treat inherited diseases by removing genetic defects has been shown for the first time to hinder retinal degeneration in rats with a type of inherited…
Yoga: downward dog increases eye pressure, risks for glaucoma patients
Certain inverted yoga positions elevate intraocular pressure in both glaucoma patients and study participants without the condition, according to a new study.
What the mouse eye tells the mouse brain
Tübingen researchers have shown that image processing in the eye is more extensive than previously thought. They investigated the channels that transmit information from the eye to the brain.
Defect in retinal computation linked to congenital nystagmus
Botond Roska and his group at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) implicate a clearly defined neuron type and its circuit in the retina in the pathophysiology of…
New report reveals UK GPs lack confidence in diagnosing eye conditions
New research reveals an alarming, self-acknowledged gap in family doctors’ skills when it comes to diagnosing and treating patient’s eye conditions.
Myopia-related differences in eye structure may help in developing ‘customized’ intraocular lenses
The presence of myopia, or nearsightedness, significantly affects the muscles used in focusing the lens of the eye-a finding with important implications for the development of “accommodating”…