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...

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...

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...

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...

  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...

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...