Weizmann Institute scientists block loss of eyesight in animals with a glaucoma-like disease
...cent of the adult population, is the main cause of blindness in adults. The majority of patients with chronic glaucoma have increased pressure inside the eye due to defective drainage of the transparent fluid that bathes the eye and nourishes its outer cells. The increase in this intraocular pressure (IOP) dam......n result in stroke, heart disease, kidney failure, blindness and amputations," Lane said. Lane said the biomechanical pancreas will help eliminate the pain and inconvenience of testing and injections those diabetic patients go through in a given day. Though its still in an early developmental stage, Lane said...Tobacco settlement $ = biomedical research; business development
...acular degeneration---one of the leading causes of blindness in older adults. --Developing new high-resolution mammography technology. --Clinical trials of a bioartificial kidney. --Developing new drugs to treat heart attacks and cardiovascular disease. --Testing a substance that kills bacterial, viral and fun...'Translocation' surgery yields unprecedented results
...called wet form of AMD. AMD is the major cause of blindness in people age 55 and older. In the surgery, de Juan pinches the sclera, the white, outer skin of the eyeball, as if it were a hollow rubber ball, then puts sutures into the side wall of the eye to keep it pinched, shortening its length. This bu...Clinton names a diverse group of researchers to receive the 2000 National Medals Of Science
...ic drug Ivermec that is helping to eradicate river blindness in the Third World. His work also led to drugs that treat hypertension, congestive heart failure and severe infection. Research bioengineer Yuan-Cheng Fung of the University of California at San Diego made major contributions to the field of aeroe...Mutations in the ABCR gene are an overwhelming cause of inherited vision loss
...entosa, a common vision disorder that causes night blindness and visual field constriction; cone-rod dystrophy, a vision disorder where the photoreceptors that detect color (cones) degenerate; and age-related macular degeneration, the most common cause of acquired visual impairment in the elderly. Although n......eficiency-related diseases, including irreversible blindness in hundreds of thousands of children annually. Adequate vitamin A intake can also reduce the mortality associated with infectious diseases such as diarrhea and childhood measles by enhancing the activity of the human immune system. In March 1999, Mo...Sightless cavefish may offer clues to eye growth, Science authors report
...surgeons continue to make advances in the field of blindness research, including exciting new processes such as cornea transplantation," Jeffery says. "Our group hopes to contribute fundamental insights into the genetic factors involved in eye development and growth. Our current research focuses on identifying...Blind, naked mole-rats not the inbreeders biologists once thought
...ize (roughly between four and eight inches), their blindness and their normal below-ground environment. After capturing a colony, Braude weighs and measures animals and also records length, sex and breeding status. Then he tags and releases the animals. While most of the dispersers found in the laboratory are...UH lab identifies first gene mutations in blood vessel disease
...le for a genetic disease that causes skin lesions, blindness and premature hardening of the arteries. The paper announcing the discovery appears in the June 1 issue of the journal Nature Genetics. While relatively rare -- occurring in about one in 25,000 live births -- pseudoxanthoma elasticum, or PXE, can hav...How stress maintains population levels
...rd to become swollen and crusty. This may lead to blindness and death from starvation as the birds become unable to forage for food. The disease is spread when healthy birds come into contact with an infected bird or an object touched by a diseased bird. For example, tube feeders require the bird to stick ...Novel antiviral drug concept targets number of human viruses
...health problems. HSV infections can also result in blindness and occasionally in fatal encephalitis. Thomas Albrecht, Ph.D., and his team at the University of Texas, Galveston, have shown that another herpes virus, human cytomegalovirus, or HCMV, is also inhibited by cdk inhibitors. HCMV chronically infects ...UF researcher develops high blood pressure drug using gene therapy technique
...istration approved Vitravene for the prevention of blindness in AIDS patients. UF researchers found that their drug, which they have termed a beta1 antisense oligodeoxynucleotide, doesn't affect heart rate or cross into the brain. As a result, the treatment isn't expected to cause the side effects associate...Scientists identify natural chemical that causes blinding blood vessel growth
...mark of diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of blindness in young people in developed countries. Several factors in addition to VEGF have been thought to contribute to abnormal blood vessel growth, so finding that blocking the receptor for VEGF is enough "is a pleasant surprise that bodes well for drug t...Photoreceptor gene mutations cause degenerative eye disease
... to blue light and susceptible to developing night blindness at an early age. A research team led by Val C. ...f the retina. Patients with ESCS suffer from night blindness and increased sensitivity to blue light. These observations led researchers to speculate that ESCS i...New machine may provide answers about leading cause of blindness
...and maculardegeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the world for persons over 60, according to its BrownUniversity designer. The small tabletop device uses light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to measuremacular pigment, a yellowish substance in the eye that may protect the eye from the destruct...First gene defect identified for precursor to adult diabetes
... of heart disease, kidney failure,leg amputations, blindness and nerve disease. Their condition must be strictlycontrolled, but current medications are not completely effective. The conditionhas proven to be a particularly difficult disease to cure in large part becauseits underlying causes are a shifting mix......ibutor to maternal andchildhood death, disease and blindness in developing countries St. Louis, MO, August 3...nt. VAD is also the singlemost important cause of blindness among children in developing countries. The research into the new health-enhancing rice varieties re...Protein in eyes may be potential treatment for leading causes of blindness
...thy and macular degeneration, the leadingcauses of blindness in the Western world. In an article in the July 9 issue of the journal Science, Noel Bouck andcolleagues at The Robert H. Comprehensive Lurie Cancer Center of NorthwesternUniversity showed that the protein, called pigment epithelium-derived f...Mice show function of gene that causes two types of blindness
...me forms ofAMD could slow the progression of their blindness by wearing sunglasses andavoiding bright light." If researchers can discover methods to inhibit lipofuscin accumulationin retinal pigment epithelial cells, new treatments for Stargardt's disease andAMD may be possible. Currently no treatments...