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Researchers discover therapeutic target to aid glaucoma treatment
Updated : 2 weeks ago IST
A damaged optic nerve underlies the neurodegenerative illness glaucoma, which results in visual loss and eventual blindness. Glaucoma affects more than 2,00,000 persons in the United States annually. Regrettably, there is no cure at this time. Researchers discovered that neurons use mitochon
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Researchers discover new approach to prevent causes of vision loss
Updated : 4 weeks, 1 day ago IST
Researchers have uncovered a previously unknown contributor to damaging blood vessel formation in the eye, which may lead to new treatments for blinding macular degeneration and other frequent causes of vision loss.
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Sukhdeep Aasht, organizes 3rd Global Inclusivity Run by visually impaired
Updated : 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 21 (ANI/PNN): Sukhdeep Singh Aasht, organized "Global Inclusivity Run for Awareness of Glaucoma by visually impaired". Around 2800 Visually Impaired along with Guides took confident step forward across 62 countries/regions, leading to Glaucoma awareness to over
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Urgent and accelerated efforts needed for universal eye coverage, vision f
Updated : 1 month ago IST
The World Health Organization has called for accelerated action to provide quality, affordable, integrated, and people-centred eye care for everyone, in order to address the increase in vision impairment and blindness in the WHO South-East Asia Region.
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Study reveals expanding gene therapy for rare disease that causes blindnes
Updated : 2 months ago IST
In an effort to treat the rare genetic condition Usher Syndrome Type 2A (USH2A), a University of Houston researcher is developing a gene therapy technique.
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Researchers reveal diabetic retinopathy cause blindness in adults
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
Diabetic retinopathy, which results in progressive damage to the blood vessels in the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye, is the main cause of blindness in adults in the United States. However, a study suggested that the small leaky intestine, which reduces the barrier between gut
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Study discovers new treatment for rare eye disease that prevent blindness
Updated : 3 months ago IST
According to a study, patients with thyroid eye disease treated with the minimally invasive insulin-like growth factor I blocking antibody teprotumumab saw improvements in their symptoms, appearance, and quality of life.
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New treatment discovered for rare eye disease may prevent blindness
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Patients with thyroid eye disease who used the minimally invasive insulin-like growth factor I blocking antibody, teprotumumab, experienced improvement in their symptoms, appearance and quality of life, according to a study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Microparticles might help in prevention of vitamin A deficiency: Study
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
Vitamin A deficiency is the largest cause of blindness in the world, and it can be lethal in severe cases. This vitamin deficiency affects almost one-third of the world's preschool-aged children and is especially widespread in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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Study: Feline genetics help pinpoint first-ever domestication of cats
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Nearly 10,000 years ago, humans settling in the Fertile Crescent, the areas of the Middle East surrounding the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, made the first switch from hunter-gatherers to farmers. They developed close bonds with the rodent-eating cats that conveniently served as ancient pest-
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Scientists find out new genetic mutation responsible for childhood glaucom
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
An international team of researchers led by Mass Eye and Ear, a member of Mass General Brigham and Boston Children's Hospital, has discovered a new genetic mutation that could be the root cause of severe cases of childhood glaucoma, a devastating condition that runs in families and can rob c
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Researchers reveal new genetic mutation cause of childhood glaucoma
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Researchers have identified new genetic mutation which may be the cause of server cases in patients with childhood glaucoma, a debilitating condition that runs in families and can cause blindness in children as young as three years old.
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