Glaucoma-related vision loss is often preventable, but many can't afford treatment
It's as if she's squinting through a smoke-filled room. But it's Charisse Brown's eye condition, glaucoma, that diminishes her vision.
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Endocrine System Diseases: News and Research on Diabetic Retinopathy
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Experimental drug blocks protein that links low blood sugar to diabetic vision loss
In a new study led by scientists at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have determined that low blood sugar, or hypoglycemia, may promote a breakdown of the blood-retinal barrier, an important ...
May 6, 2025
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Molecular messenger of sight: Scientists investigate protein structure RBP3's role in vision
Scientists have for the first time looked deep into the protein structure that may determine our vision—and discovered that it is much more dynamic than previously thought. RBP3 not only changes its shape depending on its ...
Apr 4, 2025
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AI maps blood vessels in the retina for better diagnostics
Researchers from a joint Skoltech-University of Sharjah laboratory and AIRI Institute have automated the analysis of retina images used to diagnose diabetic retinopathy. This refers to retinal damage in diabetes patients ...
Mar 12, 2025
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Managing your diabetes can help prevent associated vision loss
Diabetes affects more than 1 in 10 adults worldwide and has been accompanied by an increase in vision-threatening diabetic retinal disease (DRD).
Mar 12, 2025
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Anti-obesity drugs found to benefit kidney transplant recipients with type 2 diabetes
Kidney transplant recipients with type 2 diabetes treated with a new class of anti-obesity drugs were less likely to experience organ failure and survived longer, a new study shows. Not only is obesity a known risk factor ...
Mar 5, 2025
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Diabetic eye disease up, but most severe forms down since 2014
Although the prevalence of diabetes-related eye diseases has almost doubled since 2014, the rates of the most severe forms of the disease have actually decreased, according to a new study led by researchers at the Perelman ...
Mar 3, 2025
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Genetically diverse mouse models reveal eye aging patterns and brain health clues
Vision changes are an inevitable part of aging, but why are some more susceptible to age-related eye diseases and why do some individuals experience more severe decline than others? New research from The Jackson Laboratory ...
Feb 18, 2025
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Survey shows patients with diabetes who follow doctor's advice more likely to undergo diabetic retinopathy examinations
Diabetic retinopathy is a severe complication of diabetes that can lead to blindness. The Japanese clinical practice guidelines for diabetes recommend that individuals undergo a fundus examination at least once a year to ...
Feb 14, 2025
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Eye told you so: Why illusions are all in the eye of the beholder
Our brain and eyes can play tricks on us—not least when it comes to the expanding hole illusion. A new computational model developed by Flinders University experts helps to explain how cells in the human retina make us "see" ...
Feb 14, 2025
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