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.
Krasniy Oktyabr Inc., located on 60-20th Street, Brooklyn, NY is recalling packages of Herring of the Special Ambassador “7 Uzlov” because the product may be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum, which can cause botulism, a serious and potentially fatal food borne illness.
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.
Fluctuations in eye pressure may be associated with a decreasing peripheral field of vision in patients with glaucoma, even if their eye pressure remains low overall, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Columbia University Medical Center researchers have demonstrated using functional magnetic resonance imaging, that brain activity was increased in stroke and traumatic brain injury survivors who underwent Vision Restoration Therapy, a rehabilitative treatment that helps these patients recover lost vision. The data will be published online in the peer-reviewed journal Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair on Aug. 14, 2007.
A new type of treatment significantly reduces the severity of muscle weakness in myasthenia gravis (MG), giving hope for a new class of drugs to treat neurological disorders, according to a study published in the August 14, 2007, issue of Neurology?, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
The number of men in the United States with undiagnosed diabetes has declined sharply over the past 25 years, with Hispanics and African-Americans no longer more likely than whites to unknowingly have the disease, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today.
US’ Largest HIV/AIDS Healthcare Provider Says Pfizer?s Commercials Recklessly Promote Viagra as a ?Party Drug? by Encouraging its Recreational Use, But Exclude STD and HIV Transmission Warning from Spoken List of Potential Medical Risks
How do consumers look at advertisements? Most marketing textbooks advance the theory that looking at ads is a predominantly ?dumb process,? driven by visual stimuli such as the size of the ad or the color of the text. However, new research by researchers from the Netherlands and the University of Michigan uses eye-tracking software to reveal that it may be our goals ? the tasks we have in mind ? that drive what we pay attention to, even during a few seconds of ad exposure.
deCODE scientists have identified a sequence variant responsible for virtually all cases of a major subtype of glaucoma. The protein encoded by the gene appears to have a clear pathophysiologal role.