Topic: Eyesight And Eye Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - If you're getting a drug injection for macular degeneration or another eye condition, a new study suggests you might want to make sure your doctor doesn't talk while doing the procedure.Researchers found that in just a few ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Treating "lazy eye" is more likely to be successful the younger the child, but even older kids can benefit more than was previously believed, according to a large new study.Researchers reviewed data on nearly 1,000 children treated ...
The steady hum of chatter and the clickety-clack of computer keyboards makes it sound like any other call centre but at this Warsaw market research firm, blindness is no barrier to employment.The operation runs so smoothly that people on the other end ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Serious, potentially blinding complications from cataract eye surgery are uncommon, and have been declining since the 1990s, a new U.S. study finds.A cataract is a clouding of the eye's lens, usually caused when proteins in the lens ...
The first clinical trials that examine the use of stem cells to treat two forms of blindness are ready to begin now that patients have been enrolled, a US company announced on Thursday.A total of 24 patients have entered two separate trials ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - One in 16 preschoolers has visual impairment in at least one eye, suggests a new study of Australian kids.The majority of those children only had problems in one eye, and the most common causes were astigmatism, farsightedness ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - One in three elderly Koreans have dry eyes, according to a new study.The findings, published this week in the Archives of Ophthalmology, also show that women and people living in urban areas are more likely to report ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Droopy eye affects about 1 in 12,500 kids, which is about what doctors expected, a new study says.Droopy eye, or ptosis, is usually caused by damage to the muscle that raises the eyelid and can be present ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adding to past evidence, acupuncture plus wearing glasses might help kids get over "lazy eye," a new study says.In kids 3 to 7 years old, acupuncture plus glasses helped vision improve compared with just glasses alone, said ...
In a major advance toward regenerative medicine, researchers have for the first time coaxed stem cells from a mammal into becoming an embryonic eye, according to a study released Wednesday.The results, published in Nature, show that growing a complex human organ inside ...
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