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21/11/2008 13:07
Cash help for eye treatment venture
NEW technology being developed to deliver sight-saving treatment to the inside of the eye has won almost £160,000 in grants to develop the idea commercially in Northumberland.
Ophthalmologist and medical researcher Dr Alan Whitmore set up Lumemed Ltd to take...
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13/10/2008 00:00
More Effective Treatment Identified for Common Childhood Vision Disorder
Scientists have found a more effective treatment for a common childhood eye muscle coordination problem called convergence insufficiency (CI). For words on a page to appear in focus a child’s eyes must turn inward, or...
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23/09/2008 14:16
Promising Results in Phase 1 Gene Therapy Trial for Blinding Disease
Three young adults with an inherited form of blindness showed evidence of improved day and night vision following a specialized gene transfer procedure in a phase 1 clinical trial funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI), part...
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11/08/2008 12:45
Visions of the Future: Telescopic Eyeglasses Improve Myopic Sight
Nearsightedness, also known as myopia, is one of the most common visual defects, afflicting more than 2 billion people worldwide. This condition results when the eyeball is too long or the cornea angle is too steep to focus light on...
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28/07/2008 12:07
Older Treatment May Be More Effective in Preserving Sight for Some Patients with Diabetes
New Drug Treatment Not as Successful and had More Side Effects than Laser Treatment
A promising new drug therapy used to treat abnormal swelling in the eye-a condition called diabetic macular...
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27/04/2008 13:03
World’s first gene therapy for inherited blindness
Improvements to sight shown in results of world’s first gene therapy for inherited blindness
UK researchers from the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital NIHR Biomedical Research Centre have announced results from the world’s...
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