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Protein That may Prevent Eye Damage in Premature Babies Identified

...pies for retinopathy of prematurity, a potentially blinding disease that affects about 15,000 babies every year. In newborns with the disease, oxygen-starved areas of the retina compensate by rapidly growing new blood vessels, but these new vessels are brittle and permeable. "We've identified a protein th...

WHO Director Urges Nations to Share Bird Flu Virus Strains

...re tying my hands, you're muffling my ears, you're blinding my eyes." He said that a flu pandemic would be the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century. Tracking H5N1's evolution is essential to determine when virus mutations might enable it to be more easily spread between people. Without cur...

Researchers Use Gene Therapy to Restore Eyesight in Blind Mice

...e finding may have an impact on many of the common blinding diseases in humans, researchers now state. The study was conducted by a team of researchers led by John J. Alexander at the University of Florida. As part of the study, researchers conducted experiments on mice that had a hereditary blindness cal...

Brief Intervention on HIV and Alcohol Risk Encourages Safer Sex

...all proportion of female participants, the lack of blinding to the intervention, and the use of self-report indicators alone as outcome measures. Moreover, the team questions whether the differences could be due solely to the increased amount of counselling time given to the intervention-group participants...

Genes Responsible for a Blinding Condition Identified

...ight faced an even greater risk of the potentially blinding eye condition, the new study found. 'The two genetic variants are related and predict to a certain extent which individuals who have earlier-intermediate forms of macular degeneration progress to the advanced form and visual loss,' explained the st...

Genetic Testing Sheds Light on Degenerative Eye Disease

...ions linked to Stargardt’s macular degeneration, a blinding disease that begins in childhood. Genetic counseling is a crucial part of the genetic testing process, particularly when the patient may face the possibility of blindness, says Ayyagari. The family needs to prepare for all possible test results, un...

Mutated Gene and Bad Habits can Lead to Age-related Macular Degeneration

...ed and shown to lead to AMD which is a potentially blinding eye disorder. Schaumberg's team studied how genes and lifestyle interact to increase the risk of AMD in 457 men and women with AMD and 1071 "controls," subjects of the same age without AMD. All of these individuals have been followed regularly since...

Hope For Patients With Macular Degeneration From Manmade Protein

... made protein has been shown to reduce potentially blinding blood vessel growth in the cornea following an eye injury //or even surgery by over 50 percent, according to researchers. 'We believe eventually we'll be able to use this protein to help patients in many situations where blood vessel formation is d...

Blindness And Trachoma

...rovement) strategy with the goal of elimination of blinding trachoma by the year 2020. For the antibiotic arm of the SAFE strategy, the WHO has recommended antibiotic treatment with either topical tetracycline or oral azithromycin for certain categories of patients with active trachoma. Oral azithromycin has ...

Herpes Infects Cornea, Evades Immune Cells

... for developing therapies against this potentially blinding disease and has implications for understanding other herpes virus infections," Shukla said.Christian Clement and Vaibhav Tiwari are co-first authors of the paper. Perry Scanlan, Beatrice Yue and Tibor Valyi Nagy also contributed to the study. The s...

Experts Are Optimistic Of Making Waterborne Infectious Diseases A Thing Of Past

...ciasis), schistosomiasis, intestinal worms and the blinding eye infection trachoma. The donation of drugs by pharmaceutical companies, together with financial donations from foundations, is already having a sizeable impact, with numbers given treatment for these diseases increasing from virtually zero in 19...

Blinding-Disease Surgery Is Done Safely in Villages, by Nonphysicians

...ists in performing vision-preserving surgery for a blinding disease called trachoma trichiasis, a new review h...ing a global initiative to eliminate trachoma as a blinding disease by 2020 with a four-part strategy called SAFE: surgery, antibiotics, facial cleanliness and ...

Antioxidants Preserve Cone Cells In the Eye

... antioxidant treatment of RP, a group of inherited blinding diseases with complex genetic roots, would not cure the disease. But the salvaging of cones, which are concentrated in the retina's macula and are critical to central vision, could serve as a ‘maintenance therapy,’ he said. ‘That alone would be an ...

Single Dose Of Azithromycin Could Cure Trichiasis

... look forward to supporting future trials to treat blinding eye diseases worldwide.”For more information, visit www.nei.ni.gov....

Eye Diseases Diagnosed Through Genetical Testing

...sicians hone their diagnoses for patients with the blinding disease known as retinitis pigmentosa (RP). The screening technique has proven to be reliable and cost-effective. In the new issue of Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (IOVS), scientists had reported on the arRP-I sequencing array, the fi...

Lymph Cell Growth In Eyes Related To Macrophages

..., may ultimately inspire innovative treatments for blinding eye disease, as well as for other diseases, such as cancer, that rely on the lymph vessels to spread abnormal cells throughout the body. Researchers began to suspect a new connection between macrophages and lymph vessels while studying corneal trans...

Genetic Cause For Farsightedness Discovered

...nanophthalmos, or "dwarf eye," a rare, potentially blinding disorder, is caused // by an alteration in a gene called MFRP that helps control eye growth and regulates the organ's shape and focus. The study is described in the July issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. As the ch...

Enzyme Responsible For Congenital Blindness

...n. The researchers’ study regarding the congenital blinding disease // called Leber congenital amaurosis is pu... cycle. It has ramifications for several inherited blinding diseases caused by mutations in visual cycle genes. The newly identified isomerase enzyme plays a c...

Artificially made protein to inhibit angiogenesis

... new protein will be able to control conditions of blinding wet form of macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and tumors, corneal injuries etc. The research was published in the last issue of the journal Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science....

Smoking Linked to Blindness

...owed quitting smoking slows the development of the blinding condition. On the other hand, continued smoking can affect the long-term response to treatments such as laser therapy. One in five cases of the condition in England, where the study was done, may be attributable to smoking. Researchers suggest offe...

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