by Maxine Lipner EyeWorld Senior Contributing Writer Eye as found on a tree branch after bear attack After cleaning the eye was found to be in good condition to donate tissue. Source (all): Sudhir Singh, MD Eye as found on a tree branch after bear […]
CXL has shown promise in treating keratoconus and stabilizing corneal ectasia. BY PETER S. HERSH, MD RC, a 52-year-old man, presented with a history of corneal ectasia in his left eye, status post LASIK eight years earlier. Visual acuity in the unaffected right eye was 20/30 uncorrected and improved to 20/20 […]
Drug treatments for diseases that cause blindness could be delivered by eye drops instead of uncomfortable and costly eye injections, say UK researchers. The team reports how it tested this innovation on animals in the nanotechnology journal Small. The breakthrough could make a huge difference to the millions of people worldwide who, like author Stephen King […]
A new study shows that long-term use of daily multivitamin supplements may lower cataract risk in men. Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital examined data from the Physician’s Healthy Study II (PHS II), which compiled information from nearly 15,000 male doctors age 50 and older. From 1997 to 2011, half of the study’s participants took […]
Friday 21 February 2014 – 1am PST Progressive degeneration of photoreceptors – the rods and cones of the eyes – causes blinding diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration. While there are currently no available treatments to reverse this degeneration, a newly developed compound allows other cells in the eye to act like photoreceptors. […]
Evidence indicates that large dips in blood pressure at night correlate with progression in normal-tension glaucoma patients. Carlos G. De Moraes, MD, New York City 2/10/2014 One of the many challenging forms that glaucoma may take is so-called normal-tension glaucoma, in which elevated intraocular pressure appears to play a less-meaningful part in the equation; these patients […]
According to the Glaucoma Research Foundation, approximately 2.2 million Americans have glaucoma – a leading cause of blindness in the US. Now, researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles have created nanodiamond-embedded contact lenses that they say could improve the treatment of the condition. This is according to a study published in the journal ACS […]
“I could suddenly carry out work and pursue hobbies unhindered without a worry about my glasses or contact lenses. It was like a heightened sense of freedom. My self-confidence soared when I ReLExed.” Seeing is living. And we live through our eyes. They are the lenses that capture the world around us. Every moment, every […]
Surgical options are increasing for higher levels of nearsightedness. By Elizabeth Yeu, MD Myopia is the most common refractive error — in the United States alone, it affects between 25% to 41% of the population. While myopia vastly differs amongst various ethnicities, it appears there may be truth to our parents’ incessant nagging during childhood to […]
Thursday 16 January 2014 Computer processing speeds seem to exponentially increase every year. But a new study suggests that the original computer, the human brain, can process images the eyes see for only 13 milliseconds – a speed much faster than previously thought. The study, conducted by neuroscientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), […]
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