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Researchers following up on glaucoma treatment with a group of older glaucoma patients found that forty-four percent of them had fallen within the last year. Thirty-one percent of those falls resulted in injury, although thankfully no serious injuries such as broken bones. The patients who fell the most were those who had lost vision in [...]
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According to Dr. Gary Sy, a well known geriatric medicine practitioner in the Philippines, the earliest symptoms of glaucoma are some loss of side vision; trouble adjusting when you go from a brightly lit room to a darker one; the need to change prescriptions for glasses more frequently; blurring of vision; and seeing halos or [...]
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Most of us have a grandparent or parent whose kindly eyes have been stricken by a type of glaucoma. Risk factors such as heredity, age and race, as well as injuries to the eye, determine whether you are afflicted by this eye disorder in which the optic nerve suffers damage that can lead to blindness. [...]
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Michele Blacksberg RN, has written an enlightening post for empowher.com on a study that revealed finger nails can provide glaucoma patients a warning of hemorrhages around the optic nerve. Blackberg’s post begins: Our nails can be important indicators of our general health. Certain nail changes have been related to respiratory problems, vitamin deficiencies and heart [...]
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According to new research by University of Kentucky (UK) investigators, an emerging pharmaceutical platform used in treating a variety of diseases may produce unintended and undesirable effects on eye function. The paper, “Short-interfering RNAs Induce Retinal Degeneration via TLR3 and IRF3,” appears in the current online edition of the journal Molecular Therapy. “Short-interfering RNA (siRNA) [...]
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WebMD’s online Eye Health Center features an educational article called Eyedrops: An Ocean of Uses. The 3-page article covers types of eye drops, common uses for over the counter and prescription eye drops, tips for using eye drops, and information on eye drop research. For example, researchers are developing a biodegradable nanoparticle delivery of eye [...]
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Early detection and diagnosis of open angle glaucoma is important so that treatment can be used in the early stages of the disease developing to prevent or avoid further vision loss. Writing in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics, researchers in the US have analyzed and ranked the various [...]
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A University of Arizona (UA) team is one of 21 in the country to be funded through a new National Science Foundation program. Research developed by faculty members is among the inaugural class of 21 projects to gain funding from the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps, or I-Corps. I-Corps aims to guide research with commercial [...]
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UKdrug developer Phytopharm has been awarded a grant by the British Technology Strategy Board to evaluate their investigative drug Myogane as a unique neuro-protectant glaucoma treatment. Myogane is a liquid, bioavailable small molecule drug originally developed to treat the degenerative motor neuron disease amyotrophic lateral schlerosis (ALS). Glaucoma is a neurodegenerative disease of the eye [...]
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