UB Oral Biologists Find Link Between Gum Disease And Passive Exposure To Tobacco Smoke
...bacco smoke mayincrease the risk of developing gum detachment and bleeding gums in adults by upto 70 percent. Results of the study will be presented here tomorrow (March 13, 1999) atthe combined meeting of the American Association of Dental Research andInternational Association of Dental Research. "There is ov......roups based on attachment level, the amount of gum detachment from underlyingbone. Linking the data on alcohol consumption and attachment level showed adirect dose-response relationship between the amount of alcohol consumed weeklyand severity of gum disease. "As alcohol consumption increased from five drinks p...Oxygen reduces effects of retinal detachment
...American Journal of Ophthalmology. Retinal detachment develops in 25,000 Americans annually and can resu...supplying oxygen topatients diagnosed with retinal detachment while they await surgery. Nearsightedness, glaucoma, diabetes, severe eye injury, and advancing ag...Early treatment of blinding eye disease in infants can prevent severe vision loss
...sue inside the eye, increasing the risk of retinal detachment and severe vision loss in infants. Because it ... having progressed enough that the risk of retinal detachment approached 50 percent. As part of the ETROP study, a new computerized risk model, developed by NEI-...Magnetic fluids offer hope for damaged retinas
...g. This could be a major innovation in how retinal detachment repair is done. Our labs work may open the door for a whole host of new medical applications for magnetic nanoparticles, adds Riffle. Similar fluids are being developed by her lab for use in targeted drug delivery. Riffle and her colleagues are devel...American Academy of Ophthalmology announces new award, its highest honor
...red, was the first to establish a model of retinal detachment and develop a technique for retinal reattachment. He is best known for development of pars plana vitrectomy, a surgical procedure that allows removal of diseased fluid (vitreous) and scar tissue from inside the eye, for treatment of diabetic retinopa...Surgeons offer new treatment for degenerative eye disease
...olved with MT360. "Patients can experience retinal detachment or other complications such as bleeding that are a...d the risk from about a 40 percent rate of retinal detachment to less than 10 percent. Double-vision or residual tilting may also occur, which we can treat with t...Early treatment of blinding eye disease in infants can prevent severe vision loss
...sue inside the eye, increasing the risk of retinal detachment and severe vision loss. Each year ROP affects... having progressed enough that the risk of retinal detachment approached 50 percent. As part of the ETROP study, a new computerized risk model was used to identif...UNC study may help predict premature infants at risk of total blindness
...we should operate and intervene to prevent retinal detachment and total blindness without placing the infant at ...re worldwide."Prevention of progression to retinal detachment is preferable to surgery to reattach a totally detached retina because even with successful surgery ...Grants from Research to Prevent Blindness to support eye researchers surpassed $8 million in 2003
...y, glaucoma, macular degeneration, myopia, retinal detachment and astigmatism.* Recently, a number of developments that were supported by grants from RPB have been in the news: the results of a study showing that the use of daily pressure-lowering eye drops can delay or possibly prevent the onset of glaucoma i...November/December 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...ed to change the clinician's stance from objective detachment to reflective participation, thus infusing care with greater warmth and caring. They also suggest that the relationship between mental and physical aspects of health is complex and not reducible to the laws of physiology. E...Risks from labor after prior cesarean delivery low, study reports
...f oxygen may be caused by heavy maternal bleeding, detachment of the placenta, or other complications. Of these 12, seven were associated with a uterine rupture, and two of the babies died. In contrast, none of the infants whose mothers had an elective cesarean delivery developed hypoxic ischemic encephalopat...Brain imaging study may hold clues to onset of schizophrenia in people at high risk
...or personal relationships, poor hygiene, emotional detachment and false beliefs. While undergoing fMRI scans, all participants responded to an executive decision test - so-called because decision making and task-appropriate response selection are required - displayed on a computer screen. This test, developed b...