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Researchers Grow Eye Cells From Skin Cells
Image of the eye, Macular Degeneration, blood vessels behind retina Researchers have succeeded in growing light-sensing eye cells from human skin cells, opening the possibility of restoring sight to patients blinded by certain diseases. Researchers
Project Vision Sheds Light on Importance of Screenings in Detection of Disease (PRWeb)
Unique community outreach targets underserved population in Hawaii. (PRWeb Aug 26, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/ProjectVision/Retina_Institute_Hawaii/prweb2794354.htm
EyeCare America Promotes Healthy Aging Tips During September’s Save Your Sight Month (PRWeb)
Health campaign offers 5 tips for the aging eye (PRWeb Aug 25, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/EyeCareAmerica/AgingTips/prweb2788474.htm
HealthFirst-Learning to see with AMD
For Russell Delong, this would have been impossible four years ago. Macular degeneration made his world go black. Delong has macular degeneration. “To start with, I was totally blind. I couldn’t see nothin’.” He had surgery,
Diagnosis of Idiopathic Infantile Nystagmus and Ocular Albinism: A Clinical Challenge
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Changes in Aqueous Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and Pigment Epithelium-derived Factor after Ranibizumab…
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Aptamers offer unique therapeutic advantages (News-Medical-Net)
A novel class of drugs composed of single strands of DNA or RNA, called aptamers, can bind protein targets with a high strength and specificity and are currently in clinical development as treatments for a broad range of common diseases, as described in a comprehensive review article published online ahead of print in Oligonucleotides.
Minor strokes may worsen vision in glaucoma patients
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Glaucoma patients are likely to lose more of their vision if they suffer minor strokes, a three-year study in Hong Kong has found. Glaucoma, or damage to the optic nerve, is
