Nepal’s “God of Sight” eye doctor renowned for his innovative and inexpensive cataract surgery for the poor is taking his work beyond the Himalayan mountains so there is no more unnecessary blindness in the world
Related topics: Ophthalmology, Cataract
A study identified how microcephaly (abnormally small heads) and blindness may develop in Zika-infected fetuses, as well as a new way to potentially prevent these neurodevelopmental defects.
Related topics: Medical Research, Ophthalmology
A patient with a genetic form of childhood blindness gained vision, which lasted more than a year, after receiving a single injection of an experimental RNA therapy into the eye.
Related topics: Ophthalmology, Genetics
TUESDAY, March 23, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- Hana Hooper went to college with dreams of becoming a veterinarian. She aspired to boost her knowledge of biology and intended to amplify her interest in art.
She was 18, and her future...
Related topics: Stroke, Ophthalmology
The link between mental imagery and emotions may be closer than we thought.
Related topics: Ophthalmology
A meta-analysis finds that vision impairment and blindness are tied to an increased risk of mortality, prompting the need to address global eye health disparities.
Related topics: Ophthalmology
WEDNESDAY, March 3, 2021 -- Researchers have identified 44 new genetic variants associated with glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness. They say their findings could provide new targets to treat the common eye disease.
In their study, the...
Related topics: Genetics, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma, Medical Research
A study has uncovered a mutation in the IFT122 gene in blind dogs. The gene defect now discovered results in the progressive destruction of photoreceptor cells and retinal dystrophy. IFT122 is a new candidate also for retinal dystrophy in humans. A...
Related topics: Ophthalmology, Genetics, Medical Research
Progressive vision loss, and eventually blindness, are the hallmarks of juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (JNCL) or CLN3-Batten disease. New research shows how the mutation associated with the disease could potentially lead to degeneration of...
Related topics: Medical Research, Ophthalmology, Genetics
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 3, 2021 -- More advanced diabetic retinopathy (DR) at first diagnosis is a significant risk factor for developing sustained blindness over two years, according to a study published online Jan. 20 in Diabetes Care.
Charles C....
Related topics: Ophthalmology, Diabetes, Medical Research
Air pollution is likely to increase the risk of irreversible sight loss, according to the results of a long-term study published Tuesday.
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness among over-50s in richer nations, with...
Related topics: Medical Research, Ophthalmology
A man in Israel who has been battling blindness for a decade regained his vision after getting an artificial cornea implant.
The 78-year-old is part of CorNeat clinical trials, which will include additional patients who are not suitable for or had...
Related topics: Ophthalmology, Clinical Trials
TUESDAY, Jan. 19, 2021 -- A promising step toward using retinal cell transplants to treat blindness is reported in a new study.
Adult retinal stem cells from deceased human donors survived when they were transplanted into the eyes of non-human...
Related topics: Stem Cells, Ophthalmology, Medical Research
Retinal cells derived from adult human eye stem cells survived when transplanted into the eyes of monkeys, an important early
Related topics: Ophthalmology, Stem Cells
There are an estimated 463 million people in the world with diabetes, only half of whom are diagnosed. The disease is a major cause of stroke, kidney failure, blindness, heart attacks, and lower limb amputation. Just in the U.S., the percentage of...
Related topics: Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease, Stroke, Kidney Disease, Heart Failure, Ophthalmology
Researchers at Harvard Medical School have successfully reversed age-related vision loss in animals as well as eye damage stemming from with a condition mimicking human glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness around the world.
Related topics: Ophthalmology, Glaucoma, Medical Research, Harvard University
Sobering new statistics released by the Global Burden of Disease study found no significant reduction in the number of people with treatable sight loss worldwide since 2010 as public health services failed to meet World Health Organization (WHO)...
Related topics: Medical Research, Ophthalmology
Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson announced last month that he had returned home from Serbia following his bout with consequences related to a physical addiction to benzodiazepine, a drug he was prescribed to treat anxiety. The phenomenal public...
Related topics: Ophthalmology, Psychology, Anxiety
Even experienced radiologists, when looking for one abnormality, can completely miss another. The results show that inattentional blindness can befall even experts.
Related topics: Ophthalmology
Down syndrome and hypercholesterolemia mouse models suggest that the DSCR-1 gene protects against abnormal cornea vascularization and associated blindness by suppressing oxidized LDL cholesterol production and downstream angiogenic signaling during...
Related topics: Genetics, Ophthalmology, Cholesterol