Glaucoma – a condition that damages the optic nerve in the eye caused by increased fluid pressure – is the leading cause of blindness in the United States. This condition is often hard to diagnose, since there are no visible symptoms that can warn people of its onset. In fact, nearly half the people suffering [...]
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Eye Care America is offering free or no out-of-pocket expense eye exams. They will be available in eye clinics all over the country, so be sure to check out their website to find a match near you. Minorities such as African Americans, Asians and Hispanics have the highest risk for glaucoma and other eye diseases. [...]
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The United States’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently approved another treatment option for intraocular pressure. Intraocular pressure is the cause of glaucoma one of the leading causes of blindness in the United States. The new drug will be brand-named Zioptan, with its main medicinal ingredient being a prostaglandin analog called tafluprost. Like other [...]
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A new single-use electronic contact lens to monitor eye pressure is being hailed as a “significant development in the treatment of glaucoma” by the first British ophthalmic surgeon to use the device, Dr. Bobby Qureshi. The soft silicon contact lens, named the Triggerfish Sensor, contains a tiny microprocessor which uses an electronic circuit to monitor [...]
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A new glaucoma medication with a different mechanism of action than current ophthalmic medications is entering clinical trials. The new glaucoma drug, still known as OPA6566, is an adenosine A2a receptor agonist. It works by activating the adenosine A2a receptor to stimulate fluid drainage from the eye through the trabecular meshwork (a spongy tissue near [...]
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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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A 72-year-old Eugene, Oregon woman has been getting 3½ pounds of free marijuana from the federal government every year since 1988. Elvy Musikka, who has sight-threatening glaucoma, is part of the “Compassionate New Drug Access Program.” The program ended over 20 years ago, but the 72-year-old grandmother and three other patients in the US are [...]
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Dr. David Richardson, an experienced ophthalmologist and eye surgeon, specializes in the surgical treatment of glaucoma, specifically the new procedure canaloplasty. According to Richardson, canaloplasty is a newer, safer surgical glaucoma treatment which has successfully helped many glaucoma patients reduce their eye pressure by nearly 40 percent. Richardson claims that most glaucoma patients who have [...]
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Those glaucoma patients whose condition can’t be controlled with glaucoma medication (ophthalmic eye drops such as generic latanoprost) alone may require eye surgery. Those who shudder at the words “eye” and “surgery” together in the same sentence will be pleased to learn there is a new FDA-approved, minimally invasive outpatient procedure to treat glaucoma. The [...]
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Wonderhowto.com has an instructive 11-part eye care video series designed to educate people on recognizing and treating glaucoma. The series features an optometrist using diagrams, video clips, and other visual aids to illustrate brief videos on: – Anatomy of the Eye – What is Glaucoma? – Types of glaucoma – Glaucoma Risk Factors – Signs [...]
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