Ophthalmology
Study explores treatment options for babies with cataracts
Cataracts are uncommon in babies, but when they occur, the cloudy lenses must be removed without delay or blindness may result.
Jun 27, 2019
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Ophthalmology
Assaults with paintball guns cause more serious eye injuries than previously known, new study reports
University of Chicago Medicine researchers reviewing two years of data on assaults with paintball guns found more patients than expected suffered vision-threatening emergencies after being struck in the eye, with several ...
Jul 13, 2022
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Other
After 55 years, surgery restores sight
After being hit in the eye by a stone, a detached retina left a man blind in his right eye. Despite surgery to remove a cataract when the man was 23, which temporarily restored light perception, the patient was completely ...
Jun 17, 2011
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Ophthalmology
Surgery can restore vision in patients with brain injuries
Surgery can restore vision in patients who have suffered hemorrhaging in the eye after a traumatic brain injury, even if the operation doesn't occur until several months after the injury, according to a small study from vision ...
Dec 12, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
More oxygen in eyes of African-Americans may help explain glaucoma risk
Measuring oxygen during eye surgery, investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered a reason that may explain why African-Americans have a higher risk of glaucoma than Caucasians.
Jul 11, 2011
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Surgery
Hospital has put her kidney transplant on hold; She blames the unvaccinated
Carol Johnson has battled Type 1 diabetes since she was 12.
Sep 10, 2021
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Sleep disorders
Study shows different anesthetics affects sleep cycles in different ways
(Medical Xpress) -- In the ongoing quest to find the exact way that anesthetics interact with the central nervous system, anesthesiology researchers have been examining whether the state induced by anesthetics resembles natural ...
Oct 4, 2011
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Ophthalmology
Curve-eye-ture: How to grow artificial corneas
Scientists at Newcastle University, UK, and the University of California have developed a new method to grow curved human corneas improving the quality and transparency - solely by controlling the behaviour of cells in a ...
Oct 19, 2017
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Ophthalmology
Glaucoma stent approved
(HealthDay) -- An ocular stent that's designed to reduce inner-eye pressure among people with mild or moderate open-angle glaucoma has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Jun 26, 2012
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Health
Aging eyes linked to sleepless nights, new study shows
A natural yellowing of the eye lens that absorbs blue light has been linked to sleep disorders in a group of test volunteers, according to a study in the September 1 issue of the journal Sleep. As this type of lens discoloration ...
Sep 1, 2011
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