http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have discovered that a drug already prescribed to millions of people with diabetes could also have another important use: treating one of the world's leading causes of blindness. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-diabetes-drug.html Ophthalmology Mon, 07 May 2012 16:07:45 EST news255625657 Patients with uveitis, the fifth leading cause of vision loss in the United States, treated with either systemic anti-inflammatory medicine or with a time-release implant surgically placed inside the eye experienced a similar degree of visual improvement over two years, according to a new study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Wisconsin. Results from the Multicenter Uveitis Steroid Treatment (MUST) Trial, supported by the National Eye Institute (NEI), are published online in the journal Ophthalmology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-medical-surgical-treatments-equally-effective.html Inflammatory disorders Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:30:01 EST news232957775