Researchers from the University of Birmingham have designed and developed a novel diagnostic device to detect traumatic brain injury (TBI) by shining a safe laser into the eye.
Nov 29, 2023
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Surgeons have performed the world's first transplant of an entire human eye, an extraordinary addition to a face transplant—although it's far too soon to know if the man will ever see through his new left eye.
Nov 12, 2023
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Damaged nerves of the brain, eye, and spinal cord cannot grow back. But specific gene therapies might be able to change this, leading to treatments for paralysis and other forms of nerve damage, UConn Health researchers report ...
Oct 19, 2023
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Researchers at the University of Toronto have built an online simulator that gives an improved visual representation of the deterioration caused by glaucoma.
Sep 21, 2023
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It can be hard to know that you have glaucoma. In a study carried out at the University of Gothenburg, almost 5% of 70-year-olds were found to have glaucoma, and half of those diagnosed were unaware that they had the disease.
Sep 7, 2023
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Macquarie Medical School researchers have developed a technique for a gene therapy that could help treat the world's leading cause of irreversible blindness. The findings are published in the journal Molecular Therapy.
Jun 27, 2023
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Patients suffering from the "most horrible" rare brain tumor are falling through the cracks of mental health provision, University of Essex researchers have found.
Jun 8, 2023
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An international team of researchers led by Lithuanian scientists provide additional evidence that intracranial pressure plays an important role in normal-tension glaucoma, which accounts for up to 50 percent of all glaucoma ...
Feb 13, 2023
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Glaucoma is one of the world's leading causes of blindness, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. January is Glaucoma Awareness Month. Half of people with glaucoma don't even know they have it. If you're ...
Jan 27, 2023
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Researchers are investigating whether the COVID virus can affect vision and depth-perception of those infected.
Dec 21, 2022
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