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Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
Reports of loss of vision after non-ocular surgery have been increasing over the last fifteen years and, though it is a relatively uncommon complication, experts are keen to understand why and how often it happens because of the devastating impact on a patient's quality of life and for the medicolegal implications for surgeons and patients alike. A new article, written by Molly E.
Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. (AMO) (NYSE:EYE) today lowered 2008 revenue guidance to a range of $1.17 billion to $1.20 billion and 2008 adjusted earnings-per-share (EPS) guidance to a range of $0.70 to $0.80. The company had previously forecasted a 2008 revenue range of $1.22 billion to $1.24 billion and a 2008 adjusted EPS range of $1.00 to $1.15. "The change in guidance reflects our view that deteriorating economic conditions are impacting our U.S.
Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ISPH) announced that it has initiated a Phase 1 clinical trial with INS117548 Ophthalmic Solution for the treatment of glaucoma. The placebo-controlled, dose-escalating trial is designed to evaluate the safety, tolerability and intraocular pressure (IOP)-lowering effects of INS117548 in approximately 60 subjects with early stage glaucoma or ocular hypertension.
Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
A team of clinicians and scientists at the University of Southampton has identified a major new genetic association with age-related macular degeneration, the most common cause of blindness in developed countries. Their research, which is published online in The Lancet, adds to the growing understanding of the genetics of age-related macular degeneration and they believe it will better help predict those at risk and ultimately lead to better treatments.
Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
The USDA has presented the Delaware Industries for the Blind (DIB) an award for providing the Food Safety and Inspection Service high quality goods and services in a professional and responsive manner. In a ceremony held June 25, 2008 in the Jamie L. Whitten Building in Washington, a plaque was presented to DIB representatives LaKeesha Briscoe and Evelyn Haley by USDA Secretary Ed Schafer.
Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
With a growing threat of blindness from glaucoma looming, "finding a cure or therapies that can avert this threat is simply not an urgent national imperative," reports Allen Poirson, PhD, the new Director of Scientific Programs and Licensing for the Glaucoma Research Foundation (GRF), previewing the results of his "Glaucoma Research and Development Efforts" (GRaDE) as the Daniel Scott Weston Glaucoma Research Lecturer of GRF's Silicon Valley chapter fall event.
Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
Too many Americans are not paying enough attention to their eyesight and overall eye health, according to a new survey by the American Optometric Association (AOA). The AOA's 2008 American Eye-Q® survey, which assesses public knowledge and understanding of a wide range of issues related to eye and visual health, showed that most Americans - 81 percent of respondents - wear contact lenses, eyeglasses or both.
Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
A new National Eye Health Epidemiological Model (NEHEM) will, for the first time, make data on the prevalence of four common eye conditions freely available. The model will be launched today and will be invaluable to those involved in the commissioning and provision of local eye care services in the UK. NEHEM has been developed by the Public Health Action Support Team (PHAST) at Imperial College, London.
Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
Scientists have used a technique originally developed for economic study to become the first to overcome a significant challenge in brain research: determining the flow of information from one part of the brain to another. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Florida Atlantic University report the new capability in The Journal of Neuroscience.
Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
Herpes simplex virus type I can cause bouts of cold sores, blindness and potentially lethal encephalitis when it reawakens from a quiescent state in the nerve cells it infects. To prevent these consequences, the stealthy virus is kept under constant guard by the immune system, say University of Pittsburgh scientists. Their research challenges the once common notion that latent HSV-1 in sensory neurons is invisible to the immune system.
Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
Of the 45 million people worldwide who are blind, 80 percent are over age 50, and three-quarters of them could have avoided their blindness if they had been properly diagnosed or treated. Alcon, the world's leader in eye care products and equipment, is partnering with nonprofit ORBIS International to remedy that situation through advocacy and skills-exchange programs essential to delivering quality eye care services.
Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
QLT Inc. (NASDAQ: QLTI; TSX: QLT) announced that it has initiated a Phase I safety study in healthy adults of QLT091001, an orally administered synthetic retinoid replacement therapy for 11-cis-retinal, which is a key biochemical component of the visual retinoid cycle.
Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
Research results from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine show that the progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is markedly slowed in new laboratory-engineered mice when they received treatments of retinylamine, a trial drug that has been tested in a medical school lab. AMD is a leading cause of vision loss in Americans 60 years of age and older.
Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) has been associated with a new gene, according to an article released on October 7, 2008 in The Lancet. Macular degeneration is characterized by visual impairment due to damage to the retina. In developed countries, AMD is the most common type of vision loss.
Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
Akorn, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKRX) today announced the FDA approval of NDA 22-221 for Akten? Ophthalmic Gel 3.5%, a topical, ocular anesthetic formulation. The NDA was filed June 29, 2007 following the results from a randomized, placebo controlled, Phase III clinical trial in 209 subjects who met the primary endpoint in all three dosing arms (p
Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
Visiogen, Inc. was well represented at the XXVI Congress of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS), held in Berlin from September 13 to 17. Six independent investigators presented clinical results at the meeting, confirming that the physiologic design and proven accommodation mechanism of the Synchrony® IOL is providing patients with sustained positive outcomes and functional vision at all distances.
Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
The prestigious 2008 Mectizan® Award, awarded by global pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. , Inc. in recognition of the efforts of an individual in the fight to eliminate river blindness, has been awarded to Catherine Cross, a consultant on international programmes at leading blindness organisation, Sightsavers International.
Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
This World Sight Day (October 9), Australians are being urged to have regular eye tests to help prevent permanent vision loss in their later years. Three-quarters of cases of vision impairment and blindness in older Australians could have been prevented with regular eye checks, said Dr Peter Hendicott, the Director of Optometry at the Queensland University of Technology Health Clinic.
Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
Lpath, Inc. (OTCBB: LPTN) announced it has published two papers showing the role of sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) in ocular disorders. Dr. Maria Grant's laboratory at the University of Florida collaborated with Lpath on both papers.
Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
One In Five Losing Sight Lacks Critical Support In the time it takes for one revolution of the London Eye, two more people in the UK will begin to lose their sight*. Shockingly, one in five people newly-diagnosed with sight loss has to wait more than a year for any advice or support.* Action for Blind People believes that everyone has the right to high-quality information and support services at the point of diagnosis.
Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
Today on World Sight Day leading experts aim to raise awareness of the eye disease glaucoma. It is estimated that there are currently up to 500,000 people in England and Wales who are at risk of losing their sight due to undiagnosed glaucoma(2) despite the condition being the leading cause of preventable blindness in the UK(1). Glaucoma is the name for a group of eye diseases that cause damage to the optic nerve.
Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
A research team at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal (IRCM), funded by the Foundation Fighting Blindness - Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), discovered a novel mechanism that regulates how neural stem cells of the retina generate the appropriate cell type at the right time during normal development.
Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. (AMO) (NYSE:EYE), the global leader in advanced refractive technologies for eye care professionals and patients, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted premarket approval (PMA) of Healon D® viscoelastic, a clear dispersive ophthalmic viscosurgical device (OVD) for use as a surgical aid in cataract extraction, intraocular lens (IOL) implantation, corneal transplant, and glaucoma filtration surgery.
Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
Scientists have identified one of the genes implicated in age-related macular degeneration, the most common cause of blindness in developed countries. The research, published online in the Lancet, adds to the growing understanding of the genetics of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which the researchers believe should ultimately lead to novel treatments for the disease.
Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today
An atomic-resolution view of an enzyme found only in the eye has given researchers at the University of Washington (UW) clues about how this enzyme, essential to vision, is activated. The enzyme, phosphodiesterase 6 (PDE6), is central to the way light entering the retina is converted into a cascade of signals to the brain. This particular form of the enzyme comes from the cone photoreceptors of the retina and has not been well-researched, in contrast to its rod form.
MedicineNet Eyesight General
Title: Genes Give Clues to Age-Linked Eye Trouble
Category: Health News
Created: 10/7/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 10/7/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 10/7/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 10/7/2008
MedicineNet Eyesight General
Title: Vision Test for Young Children Called Unreliable
Category: Health News
Created: 10/4/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 10/6/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 10/4/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 10/6/2008
MedicineNet Eyesight General
Title: It's a Whole New Outlook for Cataract Patients
Category: Health News
Created: 10/4/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 10/6/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 10/4/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 10/6/2008
MedicineNet Eyesight General
Title: Newer Contact Lenses Don't Cut Infections
Category: Health News
Created: 10/6/2008
Last Editorial Review: 10/6/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 10/6/2008
Last Editorial Review: 10/6/2008
MedicineNet Eyesight General
Title: Drug Fights Diabetic Eye Disease
Category: Health News
Created: 9/26/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/26/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 9/26/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/26/2008
MedicineNet Eyesight General
Title: Painkiller May Prevent Diabetes-Related Retinal Damage
Category: Health News
Created: 9/25/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/25/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 9/25/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/25/2008
MedicineNet Eyesight General
Title: Bisphosphonates Cause Rare Eye Inflammation
Category: Health News
Created: 9/25/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/25/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 9/25/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/25/2008
MedicineNet Eyesight General
Title: FDA Goes After Unapproved Eye Washes, Skin Ointments
Category: Health News
Created: 9/24/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/24/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 9/24/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/24/2008
MedicineNet Eyesight General
Title: Health Tip: Is LASIK Right for You?
Category: Health News
Created: 9/20/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/22/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 9/20/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/22/2008
MedicineNet Eyesight General
Title: Sports Eye Injuries Leading Cause of Blindness in Youths
Category: Health News
Created: 9/21/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/22/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 9/21/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/22/2008
MedicineNet Eyesight General
Title: Gene-Transfer Proves Safe for Vision Problem
Category: Health News
Created: 9/13/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/15/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 9/13/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/15/2008
MedicineNet Eyesight General
Title: Ordinary Chores Cause Half of All Eye Injuries
Category: Health News
Created: 9/13/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/15/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 9/13/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/15/2008
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