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ACT Files Documentation With FDA For Clinical Trials Using ES Cells To Treat Eye Disease
Advanced Cell Technology, Inc...
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American Academy Of Ophthalmology Wins Award Of Excellence For Haiti Relief Efforts
The American Academy of Ophthalmology (Academy) is one of only 21 organizations nationally to receive an Award of Excellence for its Task Force on Haiti Recovery work from the ASAE and The Center for Association Leadership as part of their Associations Advance America (AAA) program...
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Face Recognition Study May Lead To Improved Computer Face Recognition Algorithms
A specific area in our brains is responsible for processing information about human and animal faces, both how we recognize them and how we interpret facial expressions. Now, Tel Aviv University research is exploring what makes this highly specialized part of the brain unique, a first step to finding practical applications for that information. In her "Face Lab" at Tel Aviv University, Dr...
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When Is It Time For Cataract Surgery?
Almost everyone who lives a long life will develop cataracts at some point. As more Americans live into their 70s and beyond, we all need to know a few cataract basics: risks and symptoms, tips that may delay onset, and how to decide when it is time for surgery, so good vision can be restored...
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Back-To-School Checklist Should Include Trip To Eye Doctor
Parents and students throughout the country are crossing items off their back-to-school checklists, but most are missing an important task to ensure learning success - a visit to the eye doctor for a comprehensive eye exam. According to an American Optometric Association (AOA) survey of K-12 teachers, 81 percent believe vision and learning are interdependent...
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Can We Trust What A Model Predicts?
When advanced modeling methods are used to investigate the health economics of complex treatments, efforts must be made to make sure that the model outcomes are reliable. Researchers at the University Eye Clinic in Maastricht developed a model that simulates the lives of glaucoma patients...
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NEI/FDA To Hold One-Day Glaucoma Endpoints Meeting
The National Eye Institute (NEI) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are sponsoring a Glaucoma Endpoints conference on September 24, 2010, to develop definitions and standards for describing structural changes in the glaucomatous optic nerve and functional changes in vision, as criteria for approval of new glaucoma therapeutics in clinical trials...
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Omeros Enrolls First Patient In Phase 2b Clinical Trial Evaluating OMS302 In Patients Undergoing Cataract Surgery
Omeros Corporation (Nasdaq: OMER), a biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering, developing and commercializing products focused on inflammation and disorders of the central nervous system, today announced that it has enrolled the first patient in its Phase 2b clinical trial evaluating OMS302 in patients undergoing cataract surgery...
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Contact Lens Injury Leading Cause Of Medical Device Emergency Visits Among US Children
A government report says that contact lens injury is the leading cause of over 70,000 emergency department (ED) visits every year for medical device-associated injury among US children and that more public health initiatives are needed to prevent such easily averted injuries in children, which are often due to wearing lenses for too long and not cleaning them properly...
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iCo Therapeutics Inc. Receives Health Canada Clearance To Conduct Phase II DME Trial With iCo-007
iCo Therapeutics Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ICO) is pleased to announce that the Therapeutic Products Directorate, a division of Health Canada, has issued a No Objection Letter response to the Company regarding its iCo-007 Phase II Diabetic Macular Edema (DME) Clinical Trial Application (CTA)...
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Two Therapies Slow Diabetic Eye Disease Progression
In high-risk adults with type 2 diabetes, researchers have found that two therapies may slow the progression of diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease that is the leading cause of vision loss in working-age Americans...
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Ampio Pharmaceuticals Announces Initiation Of Phase II Clinical Trial Of Optina?
Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: AMPE) announced the initiation of a Phase II clinical trial of Optina? for the treatment of diabetic macular edema, an early stage of diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic macular edema is responsible for most vision loss in patients with diabetes mellitus...
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Vision Loss Halted By Valproic Acid In Patients With Retinitis Pigmentosa
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) believe they may have found a new treatment for retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a severe neurodegenerative disease of the retina that ultimately results in blindness. One of the more common retinal degenerative diseases, RP is caused by the death of photoreceptor cells and affects 1 in 4,000 people in the United States...
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Hope & Protection Against Blinding Disease Delivered To Millions
This month marks the 150 millionth treatment against river blindness by international development NGO Sightsavers. Since 1987 when pharmaceutical company Merck & Co., Inc...
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When You Feel Blue, Why Does Everything Look Gray ?
Regardless of culture, language, era, or individual artist, the arts consistently depict depression using darkness. Scientific findings now lend empirical support to this representation of depression that everything looks gray when you feel blue...
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Warning: Beach Umbrellas Do Not Block Out All Solar Radiation
A team of researchers from the University of Valencia (UV) has proven that 34% of ultraviolet radiation filters through under beach umbrellas. According to what is published in the journal Photochemistry and Photobiology, umbrellas intercept the full direct flow that comes from the Sun, but not the diffused radiation that penetrates through from the sides...
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Two Therapies Slows Progression Of Diabetic Eye Disease
The VA Maryland Health Care System participated in a landmark national study of more than 10,251 high-risk diabetic adults across the nation, testing if three complementary treatment strategies can reduce the high rate of heart disease and stroke associated with type 2 diabetes and if these treatment strategies can also slow the progression of eye disease associated with diabet...
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Vitamin A Deficiency In New York City
In high-income countries, diseases related to vitamin deficiencies are not as frequent as in poorer settings but are nonetheless regular occurrences. In a Clinical Picture published Online First and in next week's Lancet, the case of a 24-year-old pregnant woman suffering vitamin A deficiency is reported...
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Vitamin Deficiency After Weight Loss Surgery Can Cause Vision Loss In Newborns
Biliopancreatic diversion surgery for morbid obesity is known to cause multiple vitamin deficiencies that may worsen during pregnancy...
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Research To Prevent Blindness Organization Awards $60,000 To Lu
Qingxian Lu, PhD, assistant professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, has received the $60,000 William and Mary Greve Special Scholar Award from the Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) organization...
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