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Glaucoma: Silently Stealing Sight from Millions

...t only half know it. The second leading cause of blindness in the world, glaucoma accounts for 12 percent of blindness in the United States. And with a rapidly aging Baby Boom generation, these numbers are expected to d...

Drug Treatment Slows Macular Vision Loss in Diabetics

...as shown promise in stemming a common precursor of blindness in diabetics, which involves the same central// light-sensitive area of retina, Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute scientists report. Encouraged by the effect of ranibuzumab in people with macular degeneration, the Hopkins researchers injected the...

Gene Linked With Aggressive 'Wet' Form Of AMD

...cular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of blindness in people over age 50. AMD causes light-sensitive cells in the retina to break down, resulting in progressive loss of central vision. Of the two forms of AMD, the 'dry' is more common than the 'wet' form. Wet macular degeneration can rapidly lead t...

WHO Attributes Death of Millions in Africa to Treatable diseases

...nting out the almost complete eradication of river blindness and the adoption of the artemisinin-based combination therapy in 33 of the 42 countries most affected by malaria. In addition polio has been almost completely eradicated and measles deaths have declined more than 50 percent since 1999. NLA...

Joslin Diabetes Center Launches Veraxa Health

...Care Diabetes is the leading cause of new-onset blindness in working-age adults across industrialized countr...echnology and clinical service designed to prevent blindness and vision loss for people with diabetes. Based on more than a decade of research and development ...

Newly Identified Strains Of Chlamydia Trachomatis – A Gateway To New Disease

...nsmitted diseases and the second leading cause for blindness globally, is said to be// evolving at a rate faster than scientists would have imagined. The scientists from Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) were the first to conclude this with the help of a new study. The Scientists beli...

New Genetic Test Predicts Eye-Cancer Patients' Futures

... aggressive type that will swiftly spread, causing blindness and death in as early as// a year. A new procedure at UCLA’s Jules Stein Eye Institute could reveal this valuable information to ocular melanoma patients and their physicians, providing a clear basis for making treatment and lifestyle choices. Rese...

A Drug That Prevents Blindness

A new drug that could prevent old age blindness is being developed, according to researchers.// ‘...r Degeneration (AMD), has the potential to prevent blindness in several people, while helping many others to regain their lost vision. According to a study publ...

Diabetes II May Be Controlled By Sanofi's New Obesity Pill

... the risk of heart disease , stroke, renal damage, blindness and neuropathy which can lead to amputation of the foot. About 194 million people worldwide have diabetes mostly of the type 2 variety . This type is caused by an inability to regulate the glucose in the body properly, and is linked to being overwei...

Basis for Nerve fiber Damage in Multiple Sclerosis Discovered

...ness, acute fatigue and, in its most extreme form, blindness and paralysis. Some 400,000 Americans have this disease. Its causes are unknown, and symptoms are unpredictable and vary greatly in severity.Much MS research is focused on an autoimmune process in which T-cells attack and damage myelin, the fatty ins...

Team Tracks Genetic Origins of Eye Cancer

... tumor that develops in the eye and often leads to blindness and death.// They're hopeful their findings could someday lead to improved treatment for those who suffer from it. Joginder Nath, professor of genetics and developmental biology, and former doctoral students Jason White ('02) and Alison Director-Mys...

Blindness cases in China on the rise

The blindness prevention office of the Ministry of Health releas... said Professor Wang Lihua, vice director with the blindness prevention office in East China's Shandong Province. According to him, pearl eye, glaucoma and cor...

Results for Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration Show Significant Vision Improvements

...al visual loss and is one of the leading causes of blindness in people over 60. Dr. David M. Brown, retinal s...ceived Lucentis treatment were able to avoid legal blindness in seven out of eight cases. Seven percent of the Lucentis-treated patients improved to 20/20 vision...

New wonder drug could treat blindness

...ker Novartis has developed a drug that could treat blindness by combating the wet form of a condition called age-related// macular degeneration (AMD). AMD usually affects people above 60 years of age and the wet form progresses quickly and can cause blindness. The drug called Lucentis was tried on 716 patie...

Vision restoration with a drug for macular degeneration

... having their vision restored." A major cause of blindness in UK is the wet AMD. Thousands of new cases are r...he wet form is responsible for 90% of the cases of blindness due to this disorder. In this condition, new blood vessels are formed behind the retina causing blee...

Trachoma not Curable by Antibiotics Alone

... affected with trachoma //(second leading cause of blindness after cataract) were treated with azithromycin, it was seen that there was only a short-lived improvement. Dr. Deborah Dean, senior scientist at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute in California warned that once the last treatment was give...

New Angiogenesis Finding May Help Fight Cancer Growth

...lood vessels in diabetes, it is the major cause of blindness in older adults. But the "holy grail" of angiogenesis inhibition concerns cancer treatment. Before solid tumors start to grow, they must create a new blood supply, and since adults need angiogenesis only during pregnancy and to heal wounds, blockin...

Blindness And Trachoma

...d. In 1995 the WHO reported that 15 percent of all blindness was caused by trachoma. This was the second biggest cause of blindness after cataract. At that time, the WHO estimated that 146 million individuals were in need of treatm...

Herpes Infects Cornea, Evades Immune Cells

.... Ocular herpes is the leading cause of infectious blindness in the United States, with 50,000 new or recurring cases each year. In about one quarter of cases, the virus penetrates the first layer of the cornea to infect an inner layer, the stroma, making the disease much more difficult to treat. Effective...

AMD Risk Lowered By Silencing Two Genes

... this discovery." AMD is the most common cause of blindness in the elderly. Both genetic factors and smoking are involved in causing it. The present research showed that deleting two important genes could help lower the risk of this disease....

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