Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a major cause of blindness in the elderly in Singapore and worldwide. By 2040, global projected cases of AMD are 288 million, with the largest number of cases in Asia (113 million).
Feb 25, 2015
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A brighter ray of hope is on the horizon for the blind, as scientists improve electronic hardware that creates sight - making it possible, they predict, to read printed text, recognize faces and lead normal, independent lives.
Feb 15, 2015
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(HealthDay)—A drug to treat the most common eye disease among diabetics has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Feb 9, 2015
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Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness among older Americans, but new treatments have dramatically changed the course of this disease over the last 10 years, making AMD more manageable than ...
Feb 3, 2015
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A new technique reported in the February 2015 issue of The FASEB Journal suggests that during early stages, it might be possible to reverse age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness that is currently ...
Feb 2, 2015
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Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor, Ernest C. and Yvette C. Villere Chair of Retinal Degeneration Research, and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans, has discovered ...
Jan 30, 2015
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New research from scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) has found that tiny lumps of calcium phosphate may be an important triggering factor for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a degenerative ...
Jan 19, 2015
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No relevant delay between referral and treatment was found when teleophthalmology was used to screen for suspected age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and, while teleophthalmology monitoring for recurrence of AMD did result ...
Dec 4, 2014
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Australia's largest clinical trial is a step closer to revealing in 2018 whether healthy older people should or should not take aspirin to prevent or delay cardiovascular disease (heart attack and stroke), dementia, depression ...
Dec 2, 2014
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High blood pressure is a leading cause of death around the world, and its prevalence continues to rise. A study published by Cell Press on November 20th in the journal Immunity shows that a protein in the spleen called placental ...
Nov 20, 2014
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