Eye Health News

Latest Eye Health / Blindness News From Medical News Today.

Total news: 25
Last news: August 31, 2007 07:00:00

Opko Health Inc. (Amex: OPK) announced that the first patient has been dosed in the Phase 3 COBALT (Combining Bevasiranib And Lucentis Therapy) clinical trial of bevasiranib for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD). [click link for full article] - [Read more]

A team of scientists, including three researchers at George Mason University, found that the mineral zinc could play a role in the development of macular degeneration. In studying eye tissue samples, the researches found that deposits, that are hallmarks of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), contain large amounts of zinc. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

The General Optical Council (GOC) welcomed the recent announcement from the Department of Health that optometrists will be able to train to prescribe medicines independently.Roger Buckley, chairman of the GOCs standards committee said: "This move has the potential to transform the publics perception of optometrists, as well as the ways in which the countrys eye care services are delivered. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Bausch & Lomb and Alcon Laboratories, Inc., have issued the following joint statement: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated and Alcon Laboratories, Inc., have settled the lawsuit recently filed by Bausch & Lomb concerning Alcons promotional claims about Bausch & Lombs ReNu MultiPlus® multi-purpose disinfecting solution. The suit centered on Alcons use of a colour-coded chart showing differences in superficial punctate transient corneal staining profiles observed in Dr. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Health Minister Dawn Primarolo announced that optometrists will be able to train to prescribe medicines . Patients will soon be examined, diagnosed, and get a prescription during one trip to the opticians. Optometrists, also known as ophthalmic opticians, are health specialists trained in all aspects of eye health. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Frontiers in Optics 2007 (FiO), the 91st Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America, will be held from Sept. 16-20 in San Jose, Calif., alongside Laser Science XXIII, the annual meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Laser Science. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Planning for a summer delivery for your child? You might want to choose an ophthalmologist along with an obstetrician.If your child is born in the winter or fall, it will have better long-range eyesight throughout its lifetime and less chance of requiring thick corrective glasses, predicts a Tel Aviv University investigation led by Dr. Yossi Mandel, a senior ophthalmologist in the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) have announced that Andrew B. Watson, PhD, has been selected to receive ARVOs Special Recognition Award, which is presented periodically to honor outstanding service to ARVO or the vision research community. The award will be presented to Watson during ARVOs Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, FL, in April 2008. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Susana Martinez-Conde, Ph.D., director of the Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Josephs Hospital and Medical Center, recently received a three-year grant worth $426,000 from the National Science Foundation to study fixational eye movements.Dr. Martinez-Conde and her research team at Barrow will record neural activity in visual areas of the brain to find out why images appear perceptually stable during fixation. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) has announced that Prof. Robert F. Miller has been selected to receive the 2008 Proctor Medal, ARVOs highest honor. This award is presented annually for outstanding research in the basic or clinical sciences as applied to ophthalmology and will be presented to him during ARVOs Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, FL in April 2008. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) announced that George O. Waring III, MD, FACS, FRCOphth, has been selected to receive the Associations 2008 Weisenfeld Award, which is presented annually for excellence in ophthalmology. The award will be presented during ARVOS Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, FL in April 2008. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) announced today that Michael A. Dyer, PhD, has been selected to receive the Associations 2008 Cogan Award during ARVOs Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, FL in April 2008. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) announced that Andrew B. Watson, PhD, has been selected to receive ARVOs Special Recognition Award, which is presented periodically to honor outstanding service to ARVO or the vision research community. The award will be presented to Watson during ARVOs Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, FL, in April 2008. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Lissamine green sounds like the latest cleaning sensation being hawked on television and probably not something you would want to get in your eyes.But a few properly placed drops can reveal staining patterns that are key to diagnosing dry eye syndrome earlier than other methods, providing doctors more options for treating the potentially sight-stealing disease, new research at UT Southwestern Medical Center confirms. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Eyeing up a role for S1P2R in abnormal blood vessel formationMany millions of individuals worldwide suffer from vision loss as a result of the formation of an abnormal network of blood vessels in the eye. This abnormal blood vessel network forms in response to damage to the retina and often occurs in individuals who are diabetic. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

The answer to teaching a legally blind child in a South Carolina public classroom traditionally has been large-print books and materials for that childs use. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

The incidence of squamous cell eye cancer is greater among kidney transplant patients and people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) than the general public, which suggests the disease is associated with immune deficiency.Claire Vajdic, Ph.D., of the University of New South Wales in Sydney and colleagues compared the incidence of squamous cell eye cancer in the general population with that of kidney transplant patients, who have suppressed immune systems. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

By bouncing sound waves off tiny bubbles generated inside eye tissue, a biomedical engineer at The University of Texas at Austin is developing a new tool that could improve the outcome of laser eye surgery and address common eye conditions. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

An 88-year-old man at The Methodist Hospital in Houston is one of two patients in the world today to receive an investigational eye drop that may restore sight for those suffering from neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration, a major cause of central visual loss and one of the leading causes of blindness in people over 60 in the United States.Currently, the standard treatment requires multiple injections into the diseased eye. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Columbia University Medical Center researchers have demonstrated using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), that brain activity was increased in stroke and traumatic brain injury survivors who underwent Vision Restoration Therapy (VRT), a rehabilitative treatment that helps these patients recover lost vision. The data was published online in the peer-reviewed journal Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair at http://nnr. [click link for full article] - [Read more]